Services

Individual therapy can offer space to slow down, deepen self-understanding, process painful experiences, and build more connected ways of relating to yourself and others.

I work with adults navigating:

• trauma and PTSD

• attachment wounds

• family-of-origin dynamics

• anxiety and chronic stress

• depression

• emotional overwhelm

• self-worth and shame

• perfectionism and burnout

• people-pleasing and boundary struggles

• relationship struggles

• identity exploration

• minority stress and the weight of systemic oppression

• grief and loss

• life transitions and existential concerns

Many of my clients are thoughtful, emotionally aware people who have spent years functioning well for others while feeling disconnected from themselves.

Together, we'll explore the deeper emotional and relational patterns underneath symptoms and how to move toward a life that feels more sustainable and authentic.

Relationships can bring our deepest attachment wounds, fears, and protective strategies to the surface.

I work with couples and relationships seeking support in moving out of painful cycles and toward greater understanding, repair, intimacy, and emotional connection. Together, we'll slow things down, make sense of stuck patterns, and create space for more connected, responsive, and secure ways of relating.

Areas of focus may include:

• communication difficulties

• recurring conflict cycles

• emotional disconnection

• intimacy concerns

• attachment dynamics

• rebuilding trust after rupture or betrayal

• navigating major life transitions

• queer relationships and identity exploration

• relationships across difference, where identity, culture, or background live inside the partnership

• consensual non-monogamy and polyamory

My couples work is strongly informed by Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT), a research-supported approach that helps partners better understand the underlying emotions and attachment needs shaping their interactions. EFT gives our work a map. We'll start by getting to know the cycle you keep landing in: what sets it off, how each of you moves when it does, and what you're each protecting underneath. From there, we'll reach the emotions under the reactive ones, the hurt that shows up as criticism, the fear that shows up as distance, and practice sharing them in ways your partner(s) can actually take in.

I am Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) trained through an EMDRIA-approved program and work with clients navigating interpersonal trauma, childhood abuse and neglect, sexual and relationship violence, and other traumatic experiences.

EMDR is one of the most extensively researched treatments for trauma and PTSD, developed by psychologist Francine Shapiro and grounded in the understanding that the brain has a natural capacity to heal, much like the body does. When an experience is overwhelming, it can get stored without being fully processed, cut off from the perspective, safety, and resources you've gathered since. This is part of why certain memories can still feel as raw as the day they happened, and why understanding your trauma often hasn't been enough to change how it feels.

In EMDR, we use bilateral stimulation (guided eye movements or tapping) while you attend to a memory in brief, manageable doses, supporting your brain in reprocessing it. Your own system leads this work: your brain makes the connections it needs, often in directions neither of us would have scripted, and my role is to keep things safe and follow your process. The memory doesn't disappear; it becomes something you can recall without your body reliving it.

We'll spend real time on preparation before any reprocessing begins, building stabilization skills, internal resources, and trust in our work together. From there, we'll develop a treatment plan that addresses the past experiences at the root of what you're carrying, the present-day situations that activate it, and the confidence you'll need for what comes next. You stay in control throughout: you don't have to describe every detail of what happened out loud for EMDR to work, and we can slow down or pause at any point.

Trauma can impact the ways we relate to ourselves, our bodies, our emotions, and the people around us. Whether EMDR is one part of our ongoing therapy or the focus of our work, the relationship is still central: reprocessing asks a lot of your nervous system, and it goes best with a therapist you've come to trust. Together, we'll work toward creating greater safety, flexibility, and connection within your nervous system and relationships.

As a queer-identified therapist, I deeply value creating a space where clients do not have to explain or defend their identities in order to receive care.

I work with queer, trans, non-binary, and gender-expansive individuals and relationships from an affirming, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed lens. That means you won't spend your sessions educating me on the basics, your name and pronouns are respected here, and your relationships are recognized in whatever form they take. It also means your queerness doesn't have to be the focus of our work unless you want it to be; sometimes you just need support with your life from someone you don't have to translate it for.

Therapy can be a place to explore identity, relationships, family dynamics, belonging, grief, embodiment, joy, and the impact of navigating systems that were not built with you in mind.