I enter the therapy room reflectively and compassionately. Our therapeutic relationship is the foundation of our work together. Together we’ll create a space for widening your tolerance for distress, deepening your insights, and make sense of the internal and external forces impacting your life. Through conversations, play, and collaborative processing, we will move through periods of grief, stress, and life transitions to support you in moving towards change as well as creating deep connections within yourself and with others. I approach therapy from a trauma-informed, psychodynamic perspective while borrowing from additional evidence-based modalities to best meet each person where they are in their treatment.

From a young age, we adopt narratives about ourselves through our relationships that influence our sense of self. Often, those narratives can lead to beliefs that we must change or hide our true selves to feel connected. Unconscious emotions and early experiences influence current behavior and relationships. These parts of ourselves, that may have been adaptive during earlier periods, can become unhelpful and often detrimental as we age and we move through different life stages.

Research shows that our children’s behaviors stem from complex thoughts and feelings they might not even be fully aware of themselves. Often, children don’t understand exactly why they act a certain way or what drives their emotions. In therapy, children use play and talking as important tools to help them explore what is happening inside their minds and to gain insight into how their thoughts and feelings work. Once children learn to reflect on, understand, and verbally express their emotions, they become more capable of having honest and open communication with themselves, their therapists, and their parents. This process empowers them to make more thoughtful and positive choices in how they respond to various situations.