Life can bring unexpected experiences that leave us feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain about how to move forward. In individual therapy, you’ll find a safe and supportive space to explore your challenges, gain clarity, and begin creating meaningful change from the inside out. Transformation often happens during our darkest times.
Our work together is collaborative and compassionate. You bring your lived experiences, and your therapist brings clinical expertise, resources, and a focus on your growth. Therapy isn’t about “fixing” you. It's about reconnecting with your authentic self and accessing the resilience and wisdom you already hold within. You may be surprised at what you're capable of from this inner reservoir, which often gets accessed when circumstances beckon us to step up and out of what we've been conditioned to believe possible. The gift in this is that you learn to navigate the rest of life from this new empowered sense of self.
We often include an Internal Family Systems (IFS) in our integrated approach, which views the mind as made up of different “parts” that each carry unique emotions, beliefs, and roles. Some parts may feel protective, others may carry burdens of pain, while others long for joy and freedom. In therapy, we gently get to know these parts of you, creating space for them to be heard and understood. As we do, your natural core Self—calm, compassionate, and wise—emerges as the leader of your inner system.
Through IFS and other integrative approaches, therapy can help you:
Understand and work through anxiety, depression, or grief
Heal from past trauma and find greater emotional freedom
Transform inner conflict into inner harmony
Explore relationship challenges and create healthier connections
Move through difficult life transitions with resilience and clarity
Strengthen your sense of self-worth, purpose, and direction
Other models used include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which helps you meet difficult experiences with openness and compassion instead of struggle. By reconnecting with what truly matters to you, this approach supports meaningful change and a more fulfilling life.
From an attachment perspective, we explore how early relationships shape the way you currently connect with others so that you can strengthen self-trust and create healthier, more nurturing connections.
As trauma-informed therapists, we address how past wounds continue to shape feelings and responses that occur at the subconscious level. The focus is on helping you feel grounded and supported, rebuilding a sense of safety in your body and relationships, and gently empowering you to move forward with greater resilience, self-trust, and hope.
You don’t have to navigate life’s challenges alone. Individual therapy offers you the opportunity to be deeply heard, supported, and guided as you take courageous steps toward healing and wholeness.
Resources to learn more about IFS therapy
You can read more about the basics of IFS therapy here.
Dr. Schwartz (creator of IFS) explains the theory here.
Dr. Tori Olds outlines IFS in an easy to digest manner here.
This book provides a helpful and easy-to-read overview of IFS.
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Maya Angelou