How I Practice

My Approach is Experiential, Strength-Based, Trauma-Centered, and Relational

I approach therapy with deep curiosity and respect for each person’s unique journey. I believe people are far more resilient, brilliant, and capable than they often realize. My work is about helping clients recognize and trust their own strengths, reframing their stories from things they have endured to things they have overcome—through brilliance, support, love, and luck. Therapy, to me, is not just about healing—it’s about remembering and reclaiming one’s own power.

Solution-Focused and Strength-Based

I have a Solution-Focused orientation, which means I help clients recognize what is already working in their lives, rather than focusing solely on what’s wrong. You are already effective in ways you may not even realize, and much of our work will be about bringing that into focus. Therapy is not about changing who you are to fit some external ideal—it’s about strengthening your trust in yourself, your ability to grow, and your right to define success on your own terms.

Trauma-Centered

While I help clients build on their strengths, I also know that real healing requires facing trauma, not avoiding it. I believe in the power of naming and exploring pain, fear, and wounds. Trauma lives in the body, in our nervous system, in the ways we see ourselves and relate to others. Together, we will explore how past experiences have shaped you and how they continue to show up in your daily life. By facing trauma with courage, we begin to loosen its grip.

Relational and Emotionally Engaged

We are shaped by our relationships—our connections with others and the way we’ve been treated in the past. Relational wounds require relational healing. The patterns that hold you back in your relationships will doubtless show up in our work together as well—but the beautiful thing about therapy is that it’s a life-lab. It’s a space where we can consciously explore those patterns, see them in real-time, and practice new ways of relating. Drawing from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP), I help clients recognize their attachment patterns, deepen their emotional connections, and expand their ability to be fully present with others.

Experiential and Here-and-Now Focused

Our minds are evolved to remember emotional experiences. This is why it is so difficult to remember raw data. Strong emotions are like a flag to our memories that something is important to remember and integrate into our life-stories. Therefore, therapy shouldn’t just be about talking, but experiencing. I use experiential techniques designed to heighten the emotional valence of a session, priming it to be integrated into the self. These methods allow for insight that is felt and lived, rather than just understood intellectually. Therapy should be engaging, dynamic, and sometimes even playful, because real transformation happens when we step outside of old ways of thinking and allow ourselves to explore freely.

Mindfulness, Meaning, and Personal Freedom

As a mindfulness educator, I integrate practices that cultivate presence and awareness. I also take an existential and depth-oriented perspective, helping clients explore life’s big questions—meaning, purpose, identity, and change. But this isn’t about striving to become some idealized version of yourself; it’s about becoming more you—free from external expectations of what kind of person you "should" be.

A Space for Transformation

I am genuinely, easily amazed by people. My clients inspire me constantly, and I believe that therapy should be a space where they can come to see themselves with the same sense of awe. If you’re looking for a therapeutic space that is affirming, engaging, and deeply focused on what is possible, I welcome you to reach out.