My Approach and Philosophy

My approach is relational at its core, and it is my role is to provide an empathic and curious space in which you can explore your experience. One of my core beliefs as a therapist is that experiences of aloneness, attachment wounds, and traumas frequently underlie adult mental health struggles. I have focused my career on working with people with struggles born of such experiences - including depression, anxiety, PTSD, relational struggles, problematic substance use, and eating disorders. In addition to providing a relational space, I integrate multiple “bottom-up” models of therapy, including Somatic Experiencing (SE), Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and mindfulness based approaches. These approaches are experiential, more body-based, and more emotion-focused than traditional talk therapy. My therapeutic work has intentionally become more experiential over time in order to promote more rapid exploration of core issues. Informed by my personal experiences in therapy, I hope to minimize long periods of “looping” in fixed, intellectualized discussions which can appear to be about important content but are often disconnected from underlying emotional experience. Although ultimately transformative and liberating, inner healing is an intensive undertaking and can be a long-term process, so to whatever extent possible, I would not like to make the psychotherapy portion of your healing journey longer than it needs to be. It requires taking meaningful risk to even contemplate healing rather than just subsisting. I consider the pursuit of wholeness an expression of hope and courage which resides in all human beings.