SPECIALTIES
We all face seasons of overwhelm, uncertainty, heartache, and coming to terms with ourselves and reality. My practice offers a compassionate and practical space to slow down, listen deeply, and support healing where it’s needed most.
Relational Wounding & Attachment Patterns
If relationships feel confusing, painful, or harder than they should be, you’re not alone. These struggles often stem from relational wounding and attachment patterns formed early in life, which can make present-day reactions feel overwhelming—but with support, they can heal and change.
The stories of your childhood shape how you feel, think, and relate to the world. The coping strategies and habits that once kept you safe often linger into adulthood, coloring your relationships, choices, and perspectives on life. With compassion, insight, and awareness, you can tend to these younger parts of yourself and discover new ways of wholeness, maturity, freedom, and healing.
You might ask yourself:
What are the places in my heart that got hurt by others?
How did I protect those places?
What do those parts of me still long for?
What would healing look or feel like for them now?
Love & Intimacy
You want meaningful connection, but intimacy may feel confusing, overwhelming, or hard to sustain. These struggles often show up as difficulty with trust or boundaries, overgiving or emotional distance, and anxiety or shutdown in close relationships—and with support, healthier and more authentic ways of relating are possible.
Love is essential, yet early experiences often shape survival strategies that lead us to seek connection, approval, and validation in ways that may cause us to abandon ourselves or repeat painful relationship patterns. Over time, these dynamics can deeply impact our mental and emotional well-being. In therapy, we gently explore your relationship to love—uncovering the beliefs and habits that no longer serve you and may have caused harm. This work opens the path to discovering who you truly are, what you genuinely need, and how to create healthier, more fulfilling connections.
SLAA Recovery & Dependent Relationship Patterns
If you find yourself stuck in unhealthy relationships or repeating painful dynamics you can’t seem to break, you’re not alone. These patterns often involve self-abandonment, people-pleasing, or overgiving in the name of love or loyalty, leaving you feeling depleted, confused, or disconnected from yourself.
Co-dependency is a learned way of meeting others’ needs out of fear of abandonment, rejection, or disconnection from those you love. While often disguised as kindness, duty, or selflessness, this pattern can come at a cost to your well-being—blurring the boundaries between your needs and others’, and leaving you feeling resentful, trapped, or depleted. In therapy, we gently uncover the origins of these patterns, the messages that shaped them, and the impact they have had on your life. Together, we explore new ways of relating that are authentic to who you truly are, allowing you to show up for others from a place of fullness and abundance.
Emotional Sobriety
You may notice that your emotional well-being depends on how other people behave or whether life is going the way you want it to, leaving you anxious, resentful, or unsettled when things don’t. This pattern—often called emotional dependency—develops early as a way to feel safe or connected and can make life feel much harder than it needs to be, but it can change.
Recovery and Emotional Sobriety are not simply about letting go of addiction, but about stepping into a new way of being. As old patterns fall away, a deeper connection to healing and spirit reveals itself, inviting transformation. This journey is one of discovery, challenge, and growth—a path toward becoming free, mature, and independent. Rooted in the wisdom of the 12 Steps, the second phase of recovery in Emotional Sobriety, and other healing traditions, our work together honors recovery as a sacred passage into wholeness.
Midlife
Midlife is often a time of quiet but profound change. You may question your identity or relationships, or sense that something within you is shifting, even if life looks stable on the outside. Changes in roles, family dynamics, work, health, or a growing awareness that life is moving into a new phase can bring uncertainty or a feeling of disconnection from yourself.
A Dark Night of the Soul is a season in life when, despite doing “all the right things,” you reach a crossroads marked by emptiness, hopelessness, or deep despair. Often brought on by a major life event—such as a death, divorce, loss of purpose, transition, or children leaving home—this experience can feel overwhelming. In many spiritual traditions, however, the Dark Night of the Soul is revered as a sacred passage into the next stage of healing and growth. In therapy, we work to bring meaning to this time, reshape the story, and approach it as an invitation for profound transformation and renewal.
Grief & Loss
It is an inevitable part of being human and yet, in the momentum of life, truly giving space to feel the heartbreak can so easily be missed.
Grieving is a deeply personal journey—nonlinear, unpredictable, and uniquely your own. Having a compassionate, non-judgmental space to express yourself is essential to the healing process. Grief deserves time, patience, and gentle care, and I hold a special interest in supporting those navigating the unique pain of suicide loss.
Intergenerational & Legacy Trauma
Our feelings, beliefs, and physical manifestations are intertwined with the experiences of our ancestors. Together, we explore the energies, experiences, and perspectives that have influenced your life, shedding light on both conscious and subconscious influences and how they reveal themselves in the present day.
Depression
Depression is a loss of heart, often acting as a shield, protecting us from vulnerability, pain, and hurt. Instead of turning away from it, my approach encourages gently embracing it with curiosity, compassion, and awareness. By exploring the underlying pain and experiences, we open a path of care and self-compassion.
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
