My Approach

Therapy is not about fixing what is “wrong” with you. It is about understanding what has happened to you — and how your nervous system and relationships have adapted in response.

I approach this work through a relational and trauma-informed lens. This means I view symptoms such as anxiety, shutdown, irritability, emotional distance, or over-functioning as meaningful adaptations. At some point, they likely helped you cope. Together, we explore whether they are still serving you. Change begins with safety. We move at a pace that feels manageable, building capacity rather than overwhelm.

Our nervous systems are shaped in relationship and they heal in relationship.

Experiences of chronic stress, trauma exposure, high-responsibility roles, or relational injury can shift how we respond to the world and to the people closest to us. For those working in high-stress professions, including first responder roles, these patterns often develop as necessary strengths on the job but can create strain in personal relationships. Therapy offers space to understand and recalibrate these responses without judgment.

I integrate Somatic Experiencing with other evidence-based modalities, including attachment-based and relational approaches. In practice, this may involve increasing awareness of your nervous system patterns, slowing down conflict cycles in couples work, building emotional regulation skills, processing trauma in a gradual, contained way, or strengthening communication and connection.

Rather than focusing only on insight, we also work with embodied experience, helping your system feel the safety that your mind may already understand.

You are the expert on your life. My role is to bring clinical knowledge, structure, and attuned support.

I aim to create a space that feels steady, collaborative, and respectful, where both individual experiences and relational dynamics can be explored openly. Therapy is not about assigning blame, it is about building understanding, increasing flexibility, and supporting meaningful change.

Lasting change does not come from pushing harder. It comes from building capacity in your nervous system, in your relationships, and in your ability to respond rather than react. Whether we are working individually or as a couple, the goal is greater emotional safety, resilience, and connection.