My approach to psychotherapy is responsive, relational, and shaped by the person or people in the room. Grounded in psychodynamic practice, our work attends to the deeper patterns, relationships, and experiences that influence how we come to know ourselves and one another. What emerges in therapy—through language, emotion, the body, silence, and relationship—can become part of the work.
There are times when the ways we have learned to adapt, achieve, protect, or remain connected begin to ask something different of us. What once helped us move through the world may become constricting, exhausting, or increasingly difficult to sustain.
Psychotherapy offers a place to become curious about these patterns without reducing them to problems that need to be fixed. Our work can hold what is happening now alongside the history, relationships, emotional life, and embodied experience that have shaped it—making room for greater recognition, flexibility, and choice.
My approach integrates psychodynamic, relational, and somatic psychotherapy with evidence-based practice. The work is responsive rather than prescriptive, shaped by who you are, what you are experiencing, and what becomes meaningful as we work together. We may explore how earlier experiences continue to shape the present, notice patterns as they emerge within relationships, and attend to what the body communicates alongside thought and language.
My work is integrative, drawing from evidence-based and experiential approaches when they meaningfully support the work. Rather than applying techniques according to a fixed formula, I draw from cognitive and behavioral therapies, mindfulness-based practices, attachment and family systems perspectives, Gestalt and experiential work, and IFS-informed principles in response to what emerges in the therapeutic process.
The therapeutic relationship is central to my work. I believe meaningful change develops not only through what we understand, but through what becomes possible within a relationship grounded in trust, curiosity, honesty, and attunement. Therapy can become a place to notice how you relate, what you protect, what you expect from others, and what begins to shift when those patterns are met differently.
The depth of psychotherapy is shaped not by certainty, but by our capacity to remain in genuine relationship with experience. Our work together invites a particular posture toward experience—one grounded in openness, self-reflection, and the capacity to tolerate ambiguity.
Turning toward our inner world requires courage, particularly when we encounter experiences we have learned to avoid, minimize, or understand from a distance. Therapy offers an opportunity to approach these places with curiosity rather than judgment, allowing what has been difficult to hold to become more recognizable, more tolerable, and ultimately more available for choice.
The therapeutic relationship is not simply the setting for the work; it is part of the work itself. What unfolds between us can offer another way of recognizing how you experience closeness, difference, trust, protection, and being known. Over time, this can support not only greater understanding, but a more conscious and flexible way of inhabiting your life.
We become ourselves in relationship. With family, partners, communities, and the environments in which we learned what it meant to belong, protect ourselves, or be known. These experiences can continue to shape how we approach closeness, conflict, trust, vulnerability, and what we expect from ourselves and others. In therapy, we can become curious about these patterns as they emerge, creating room for new ways of relating without dismissing the intelligence of how they developed.