Psychotherapy for adolescents, adults, and families.

Reaching out to someone to walk alongside you on your journey can be… daunting? Strange? Exciting? Life can be weird, and hard, and we just don’t have to do it alone. Maybe you are ready to dive right in or maybe you prefer to move at a slower pace. It’s okay to not even know where to start, or what to feel. I meet you where you are.

My work focuses on helping college students, adolescents, and adults, especially those who have histories of trauma, are adopted, struggling with substance use, experiencing severe depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, and life transitions. This is my passion- to help connect the dots, to help relieve the heaviness, to help you be your best self. With families, I deeply value working with dyads, triads, and whole systems to address emotional or circumstantial difficulties. Healing the family system means we are healing the individual members, too.

I prioritize the relationship we will share with each other in the work we do, as research has continuously shown this is a significantly important factor for change to occur. I do this by routinely checking in to see how the process is feeling for you, if we need to slow down or speed up, and ensuring you feel safe in the space. It is not always easy to welcome someone into the deepest parts of your self and it is important we get to know each other first so we can establish this trust.

We may carry a lot of shame, and therapy is the space to illuminate the you who came before it. Sometimes we just need someone to talk to, and sometimes we need someone to help us process hurtful experiences that continue to affect us. A therapist does not “fix” you, because you are not broken. Sometimes we need a safe place to do our thinking and not fear being judged for it.