I honor you as the expert on your own life. Our work together will always focus on your inherent resilience and capacity for healing.
My practice is rooted in an integrative, non-pathologizing framework that views mental wellness along a continuum, rather than through a lens of dysfunction. Combining person-centered, strengths-based, and trauma-informed principles, our work together always focuses on your inherent resilience and capacity for healing.
Grounded in attachment theory and developmental psychology, I place deep value on our earliest life experiences and how they shape us. Because we often develop complex behavioral patterns and coping strategies when we are young, I invite you to look back at those patterns with profound compassion. At one point in your life, those exact behaviors were brilliant, necessary adaptations designed to keep you safe and help you survive your early environment.
However, patterns that served a vital purpose when you were younger can begin to cause friction, anxiety, burnout, or disconnection in adulthood. When these old survival strategies no longer serve you, therapy offers a safe space to gently unravel them. Together, we will honor the parts of you that protected you for so long, while consciously cultivating new ways of being that align with who you are today.
To support this deep, transformative process, I pull from a variety of evidence-based frameworks, tailoring our sessions to your unique nervous system and goals:
Relational Psychodynamic Therapy: Exploring how early relationships and childhood development shape present behaviors.
Attachment-Based & Neurobiologically-Informed Care: Focusing on emotional attunement, nervous system co-regulation, and mirroring.
Component-Based & Trauma-Informed Parts Work: Acknowledging and healing the protective internal parts we develop when we are young.
Humanistic, Non-Pathologizing Frameworks: Honoring the human experience along a natural spectrum, rather than assigning rigid disease-model labels.
Practical Behavioral Tools (CBT, DBT, ACT): Utilizing cognitive reframing, mindfulness, and self-compassion to actively shift old patterns in your daily life.