APPROACH
My approach to therapy is collaborative, relational, and grounded in curiosity. I believe meaningful change happens when we understand why patterns developed, not just how to stop them. Therapy with me is a space to slow down, make sense of your experiences, and build ways of relating to yourself and others that feel more sustainable and aligned. I lead with warmth and empathy, honoring that healing is not a one-size-fits-all journey. I tailor our work to your lived experience, your pace, and your truth. My therapeutic lens draws from attachment theory, psychodynamic therapy, Attachment-Focused EMDR (AF-EMDR), and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) to support deeper healing and self-awareness. Together, we explore the roots of emotional patterns, the impact of early relationships, and how your nervous system has learned to protect you, while gently building capacity for regulation, connection, and more secure ways of relating. Outside of therapy, I value rest, creativity, and connection, and I believe those things matter just as much in the healing process.
ATTACHMENT-BASED THERAPY
Our earliest relationships can shape how we experience trust, intimacy, conflict, and emotional safety throughout our lives. Attachment-based therapy helps us understand how these early experiences may continue to influence the way you relate to yourself and others today.
Together, we’ll explore patterns around closeness, abandonment, vulnerability, people-pleasing, emotional withdrawal, and getting your needs met. Rather than judging these patterns, we’ll approach them with curiosity and understand how they may have developed as ways of protecting you.
Our work focuses on building greater self-awareness, emotional security, and the capacity to create relationships that feel safer, more connected, and more authentic.
Attachment-Focused EMDR THERAPY
Attachment-Focused EMDR builds on traditional EMDR by incorporating attachment theory, relational work, and additional resources for clients whose trauma may be connected to early relationships, emotional neglect, abandonment, or other relational wounds.
Rather than focusing only on a single traumatic event, AF-EMDR allows us to explore experiences and beliefs that continue to shape how you feel about yourself, your relationships, and your sense of safety. We may work with beliefs such as “I’m not enough,” “I’m unsafe,” “I can’t trust anyone,” or “I’m powerless.”
I integrate EMDR with nervous system regulation and relational support so that trauma processing happens at a pace that feels manageable. The goal is not to erase what happened, but to help painful experiences feel less present and create space for greater safety, self-trust, and connection.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Sometimes the emotions and patterns affecting us today make more sense when we understand where they began. Psychodynamic therapy explores how past experiences, early relationships, unconscious beliefs, and unresolved emotions may continue to influence your present life.
Together, we’ll look for recurring themes in your relationships, emotional responses, and ways of coping. This might include noticing why certain situations feel especially activating, why the same relationship dynamics keep repeating, or why you understand something intellectually but still struggle to feel differently.
By bringing these patterns into awareness, we can understand them with greater compassion and begin creating more intentional ways of relating to yourself and others.