services & approach
adolescent therapy | young adult therapy | adult therapy | parenting therapy | relationship therapy | family therapy
“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society” - Jiddu Krishnamurti
adolescent therapy | young adult therapy | adult therapy | parenting therapy | relationship therapy | family therapy
“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society” - Jiddu Krishnamurti
anxiety
autism
ADHD
PDA
depression
self-esteem & identity
romantic relationships
parent-child relationships
family systems
trauma & C-PTSD
perfectionism
people-pleasing
deconstruction & self-growth
neurodiverse affirming
trauma informed
decolonial & anti-oppressive
culturally curious & attuned
LGBTQIA+ affirming
art-based
compassion-focused
emotion-focused
attachment-based
mindfulness-based
IFS-informed
person-centered
polyvagal-informed
Being a Marriage and Family Therapist doesn't mean I only work with couples and families!
The field of Marriage & Family Therapy (MFT) is committed to attending to the reality of our client's lives –
The reality that the systems one develops and exists within have a profound impact on their experiences, thus shaping their story, well-being, relationships, sense of self, and internal world.
As an MFT, I work from a systemic lens – This means I hold a deep awareness of how family dynamics, cultural narratives, and larger social systems shape our internal world and mental health. We don’t just discuss symptoms – We get curious about the context that created them. This approach honors your lived experience.
Your story matters here.
Person-centered therapy (also known as client-centered therapy) is built on the belief that people — adolescents included — have the inner capacity for growth and healing when provided with the right conditions. These "right conditions" include curiosity, compassion, and unconditional positive regard. The goodness in our teens rises to the surface when we treat them as inherently good and worthy.
My role is not to “fix” or direct, but to walk alongside your teen with empathy, respect, and trust.
Teens' core developmental needs — autonomy, identity development, self-exploration, and self-esteem — are at the core of my work.
Many teens also experience overwhelming emotions and high stress — Coping skills and polyvagal-informed psychoeducation are provided to support teens in building a toolbox for emotion regulation and self-care that will help shape their lives.
Further notes on the defining features of my work with teens:
Unconditional Positive Regard
I accept your teen *exactly as they are*, without judgment. This is vital for adolescents, who are often navigating a world of peer pressure, self-doubt, and navigating finding themselves while carrying adult expectations.
Empathy
Deep, nonjudgmental understanding of the adolescent’s internal world helps them feel seen and heard — often in ways they don't experience elsewhere.
Client Autonomy
Teens are given control over the pace and direction of therapy. This affirms their growing need for independence and self-determination.
Building Trust Slowly
I respect your teen’s timing and refrain from pushing for disclosures or change too early.
Safe Space for Identity Exploration
My goal is to support your teen’s evolving self without judgment.
I work with young adults navigating life’s transitions, relationships, and identity development. My approach is grounded in the belief that healing happens in the context of safe, authentic relationships — both in therapy and in life. I aim to create a space where you feel seen, heard, and accepted exactly as you are, while also feeling supported to grow into who you're becoming.
Many of the challenges we face in early adulthood — like anxiety, self-doubt, difficulty with relationships, or feeling stuck — can be traced back to how we learned to relate to ourselves and others. Using attachment theory, I help you make sense of these early patterns and how they might still be playing out in your life today. We’ll work to build awareness and create more secure, fulfilling ways of connecting — with others and with yourself.
I also take a systems-oriented view, meaning I see you not just as an individual, but as someone shaped by your family, culture, community, society, and environment. Whether you're navigating family expectations, cultural identity, or trying to break out of an old role you’ve been stuck in, we’ll explore how those dynamics influence your current experience—and how you can begin to shift them in ways that feel right for you.
At the heart of this work is a person-centered approach: I believe you are the expert on your own life. My job isn’t to “fix” you, but to walk alongside you, offering support, reflection, and compassion as you explore what matters most to you. Together, we’ll create a space where you can learn and unlearn, reflect, and get to know yourself and how to support your needs more effectively — at your own pace.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or uncertain about your path, you don’t have to go through it alone. Therapy is a place to explore the hard stuff while also reconnecting with your strengths, your story, and your hope.
I work with adults returning home to themselves, in one way or another. It may look like setting boundaries where there were none, reclaiming needs that were long deprioritized, or learning to say no and knowing how to cope with that overwhelming guilt. It may involve grieving the selves we had to hide, or rediscovering the parts of us that were never given space to grow.
Differentiation, boundaries, self-prioritization — these aren’t just skills we check off a list. They’re emotional shifts that often ask us to unlearn patterns of people-pleasing, over-functioning, or staying small to keep the peace. These shifts can feel unfamiliar, even uncomfortable at first, which is why doing this work in the context of a supportive therapeutic relationship matters.
In our work together, therapy becomes more than a conversation — it becomes a practice. A space where you’re allowed to explore without performing, where you can question long-held narratives and reconnect with your own internal compass.
With compassion and curiosity, we’ll explore what it means to live in greater alignment with your values, your limits, and your truth. This isn’t about becoming a new version of yourself — it’s about coming home to the self you’ve always been.
A core part of my work often involves reparenting — a practice of offering yourself the kind of internal care, protection, and nurturance that may have been missing in early relationships. Through this process, we begin to build a more trustworthy, attuned relationship with the self — one that supports clearer boundaries, greater self-worth, and a stronger sense of internal safety. Reparenting is not about blame, but about repair: it’s a powerful act of healing that helps you relate to yourself with more compassion, consistency, and choice.
Parenting often stirs up deep and confusing emotions — remnants of our own childhood experiences that can surface in moments of stress. Through an attachment-based lens, we recognize that our earliest relational experiences shape the internal templates for relationships that we carry into adulthood — especially into parenthood. Parenting can reactivate unresolved wounds, often outside of our awareness.
I work with parents of children of all ages who are not only navigating the daily complexities of caregiving but also doing the profound work of breaking intergenerational patterns. This means consciously choosing to respond rather than react — to pause, reflect, and offer their children what they may not have received themselves: emotional safety, presence, and co-regulation.
Through a reparenting-informed and attachment-based approach, we explore how to care for the child in front of you while tending to the child within you. This dual focus honors both your healing journey and your child’s unique emotional and neurological needs. With clarity, softness, and support, we build the internal security needed to nurture secure attachments — laying the foundation for resilience, connection, and repair in both generations.
I also offer specific parenting therapy for parents of neurodivergent children wanting to learn how to better understand and support their child. I take a psychoeducational approach, ensuring you fully understand your child's complexities. A neurodiverse-affirming lens means that the value of diversity in neurological functioning is honored instead of viewed as a deficit. This work includes unlearning neuronormativity — a force that we ALL have been conditioned with in our culture — so that you can shift the beliefs that keep you correcting and disconnecting and start connecting with your child with deeper awareness and understanding of their needs and experiences.
Relationships are the most powerful sources of joy — and pain — in our lives. When the connection with your partner feels strained or uncertain, it can shake your entire sense of safety. As a relationship therapist informed by emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) and attachment theory, I help couples find their way back to each other — not just to better communication, but to deeper emotional security.
In our work, we go beyond surface problems like recurring fights or emotional distance. We explore the deeper emotional patterns that underlie them. Most conflicts are not really about the dishes, parenting, or sex — they’re about how safe we feel to reach for our partner, and whether we believe they’ll be there how we need them to be when we do.
Through an attachment lens, I help you recognize the cycles that keep you stuck: the pursuing and withdrawing, the shutdowns, the escalations. We slow things down, so you can begin to hear not just what your partner is saying — but what their heart is really asking for. Underneath anger is often fear. Underneath withdrawal, a longing for closeness.
I am not here to judge or take sides. My role is to guide you both toward understanding, to help you risk vulnerability in small, safe steps, and to rebuild trust where it has been frayed. I create a space where each person can feel seen, heard, and emotionally held — even in the hard moments.
We are wired for connection. When our bond with a partner feels secure, we thrive. When it’s threatened, our whole system can go into distress. But the good news is, these bonds can be repaired. Even if it feels hopeless now, I’ve seen couples come back from disconnection — because they finally learned how to turn toward each other instead of away.
If you're feeling distant, stuck in the same arguments, or just wondering where the closeness went, you’re not alone. And you don’t have to figure it out alone. Whether you’re struggling or simply want to deepen your connection, I’m here to help you navigate that path together.
Family therapy can include a configuration of any kind wanting to work on their relationship — whether that be parent-child, co-parents, or siblings. Family therapy helps you learn how to create enough space — in your heart, your mind, and your communication — for you and the other person(s).
I support families in understanding one another’s stories, nervous systems, and needs — especially when neurodivergence, trauma, or emotional misattunement are part of the picture. Together, we work to interrupt painful patterns of disconnection and build more honest, flexible, and compassionate ways of relating.
In my work with families, I draw from attachment-based principles to promote deeper understanding and connection. Together, we explore each family member’s unmet attachment needs, with the goal of repairing ruptures and rebuilding trust.
For neurodivergent families, this work includes helping everyone feel seen and respected for who they are. We focus on creating structures and rhythms that honor different sensory, emotional, and cognitive needs — without expecting anyone to conform to a narrow definition of “normal.” Together, we explore how to communicate more effectively, reduce overwhelm, and build family systems that accommodate difference with creativity, compassion, and flexibility.
We work to interrupt patterns of disconnection by fostering emotional safety, increasing attunement, and creating space for more honest, responsive communication. Whether you're navigating conflict, struggling to feel close, or trying to support a child or teen in distress, attachment-based family therapy can help your family move toward more secure, flexible, and compassionate ways of relating. This work offers a grounded path toward deeper, more fulfilling family connections.