• Relationship difficulties
• Anxiety/panic attacks
• Attachment issues
• Adoption issues
• Parent/child and mother/daughter dyad work
• Chronic pain/medical issues
• Psychosomatic symptoms
• Depression
• Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Life transitions

It is paramount that you feel enough trust and safety with your therapist to express the most genuine parts of yourself. You and I co-create the space to allow for you to safely navigate your rich inner world. My job is to validate you, gently challenge you to consider a different perspective, share empathic connection or see the humor in human folly alongside you. My approach weaves together different psychotherapeutic traditions to best treat your unique needs and personality. While I formulate your treatment with multiple theoretical influences, the foundation of my practice is relational and grounded in psychodynamic theory, practiced in the humanistic fashion and considers mind/body traditions.

My therapeutic orientation is rooted in relational and psychodynamic theory. This means I talk with you about “here and now” concerns and help you gain insight into how past and current experiences and relationships may impact you today. Moreover, this tradition posits that the relationship between client and therapist is the key transformative ingredient to produce satisfying change. When the therapeutic alliance is strong, it becomes a powerful tool to tap into deep hurts as well as rich opportunities for your best self to emerge.

Following a humanistic tradition, I am a firm believer in your basic goodness. I hold you in my mental space as fully whole and worthy of meeting your goals. We work together in the present moment; you have room to grow and make choices based on your inherent knowing of what is best for you. Humanism offers optimism about the human condition and invites exploration of what it means to exist and to be fully human.

Sometimes it is difficult to find words to express thoughts and feelings. Perhaps you experience chronic headaches, fatigue, upset stomach, or shortness of breath. The body can be an excellent barometer. A mind/body perspective considers how the body and mind work in concert with one another to express underlying emotional states. To help you alleviate distressing symptoms so you can access deeper layers of yourself, I may draw from yogic principles and practice and specific somatic techniques. I consider neurobiological principles of attachment, anxiety, depression and trauma when incorporating this perspective.