How I Work

Beyond insight alone.

My work is relational, experiential, and mind-body oriented. I draw from psychodynamic therapy, mindfulness, somatic approaches, nervous system regulation, and my training in Integral Coaching.

Together, we pay attention not only to what you think and understand, but to what you experience—in your emotions, body, relationships, and patterns of responding. The goal isn’t to force change, but to develop a different relationship with yourself and create more freedom and choice in how you move through life.

Our work will vary depending on what content you bring to the session.

My hope isn’t that you’ll leave our engagement as a different person. It’s that you’ll leave with a different relationship to yourself.

One built on curiosity instead of criticism.

Compassion instead of shame.

Connection instead of control.

What Our Sessions Might Look Like:

Exploring patterns
Understanding how you’ve learned to respond to stress, relationships, emotions, and uncertainty—and noticing when those strategies are no longer serving you.

Working with present-moment experience
Slowing down enough to notice thoughts, emotions, sensations, and impulses as they arise rather than automatically reacting to them.

Making room for what you feel
Developing greater capacity to experience difficult emotions without immediately needing to fix, suppress, or explain them.

Building self-compassion
Learning to relate to the parts of yourself you may judge, criticize, or wish were different with greater curiosity and understanding.

Creating new possibilities
Practicing different ways of responding so that you have more choice, flexibility, and alignment with what matters to you.

A different relationship with yourself.

I don’t believe you’re broken.

I believe our minds and bodies develop remarkably intelligent strategies to help us navigate what we’ve experienced. Sometimes those strategies continue long after the circumstances that created them have changed.

Together, we’ll get curious about those patterns—not to judge them or force them to change, but to understand what they’re trying to protect. We may slow down enough to notice what’s happening in your thoughts, emotions, body, and relationships in real time. We may explore where these patterns come from and how they’ve shaped the way you relate to yourself and others. And we may practice new ways of relating to yourself that create more choice in how you respond.

I’ve come to believe that healing isn’t about becoming fearless or perfectly regulated. It’s about expanding your capacity to stay connected to yourself—even when life feels uncertain, painful, or messy.

Because when we stop treating ourselves as problems to solve, we create space for something new: more choice, more freedom, and a deeper sense of belonging within ourselves.