As a trauma-informed therapist, I focus on understanding what happened to you, rather than what is “wrong with you.” This approach prioritizes avoiding retraumatization and emphasizes creating a sense of safety. Together, we’ll work on increasing your ability to manage intense emotions, reduce dissociation, and regulate your nervous system. Our goal is to help you navigate the effects of trauma on your relationships and your connection to your body.

Psychodynamic therapy helps you build self-awareness by exploring how your past, especially childhood experiences, influences your present. Often, beliefs, patterns, and ways of relating to others operate outside of your conscious awareness. By bringing these unresolved issues to light, you can address current challenges more effectively. This approach is particularly useful for uncovering the root causes of recurring relationship problems, attachment issues, substance abuse, and self-defeating behaviors.

As a Certified Integrative Mental Health Practitioner, I draw upon a whole-person perspective, where we recognize the interconnectedness of your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. An integrative approach goes beyond treating isolated symptoms with the premise that mental health is not solely confined to the mind but is also how your lifestyle impacts your well-being. We will work to provide personalized strategies that encompass an integrative and sustainable healing process.

Internal Family Systems (IFS), also known as parts works, is an approach where our mind, thoughts, motivations, and emotions are viewed through the idea of a large 'family' of interrelated components (which can be thought of as “parts”). Just like a family is made up of individuals with unique personalities and roles, our internal world is composed of different parts. Each part has its own specific qualities, desires, and intentions. Through an IFS-informed approach, we can address inner conflict, trauma, anxiety, and addiction to establish more inner harmony and self-understanding

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based approach that helps you establish connections between your thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors. By restructuring faulty core beliefs and thought patterns, you can learn to redirect your thoughts and behaviors in healthier ways. This modality helps you challenge unhelpful beliefs about yourself and gain insight into how your thoughts impact your feelings and actions. I often integrate CBT with other therapeutic modalities to help clients manage anxiety, depression, intrusive negative thoughts, self-defeating behaviors, and to improve self-esteem.

Mindfulness is the practice of cultivating awareness of the present moment. By combining counseling with mindfulness techniques, I help clients enhance self-awareness, reduce stress, and develop greater self-acceptance. Mindfulness practices can increase your capacity for self-compassion and help you approach difficult emotions and thoughts without judgment. This approach is especially effective for helping you regulate intense emotions and your nervous system, which is why I frequently incorporate it into my work with trauma, PTSD, depression, and anxiety.