I help adults facing significant pressure and challenges in life that are contributing to anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges. My approach to therapy can help you identify present and historical roots of the these difficult feelings you are experiencing, and provide you techniques and strategies to help you understand your emotional patterns, identify and cultivate healthy coping skills, build resilience and stress tolerance, work towards creating a balanced lifestyle that supports mental health, get relief from these distressing symptoms and address them before they become debilitating, and gain long-term positive change.

I work with Young Adults (18-25) who are struggling with big life transitions (leaving home for the first time to attend college, graduate school, begin a career) and experiencing a variety of distressing emotions and new stressors (e.g. anxiety about their future, struggling with social anxiety, feeling overwhelmed by pressure to make important education and career decisions quickly, experiencing depression after moving away from their support systems and struggling to build new meaningful relationships, for which they are seeking specialized support for the unique and complex challenges involved in this pivotal stage of their lives. Using a combination of techniques (Psychodynamic, DBT, IFS) I help you process and explore your emotional experiences, develop self-awareness and personal insight, and develop the tools needed to successfully navigate your transition to independence with greater confidence and less anxiety.

This job changes you-whether you want it to or not.  After 10 years working in a dangerous maximum-security prison, I know the toll it takes.  The hypervigilance, the emotional shutdown, the way it creeps into your home life.  If you’re realizing the job has changed you and you need help-but don’t trust going through the department-I offer confidential support from someone who “gets it.” No judgment, no explaining. Just real help to get back to yourself.

I help middle-aged adults (30-55) seeking therapy to address challenges in their relationships (e.g. Trust and intimacy issues, family dynamics, having difficulty connecting with others, living primarily for others while feeling unfulfilled in their own lives), who have struggled with unhealthy relationship patterns throughout their lives, and  are ready to understand why.  Using insight-oriented, attachment-based therapy, we explore the roots of these patterns so you can break the cycle and build healthier, more fulfilling relationships.​

I work with middle-aged and older adults (age 30-60) navigating major life transitions and identity shifts-like career changes, relationship shifts (Infidelity/Divorce Recovery), or personal reinvention-who have always managed on their own by putting on a brave face and faking it until they make it, but this time it’s just not enough, and you’re ready to admit you need professional support.  If you’re ready to go beyond just managing, I’m here provide the insight and support you need to gain a deeper understanding of yourself, embrace change, and move forward on your journey in a way that feels authentic and fulfilling.

I work with the partners and family members of first responders/Corrections Staff who feel shut out, worried, or helpless as the person they love shuts down and won’t open up.  You see the changes, you feel the distance- and you’re doing your best to hold things together without really knowing how to help.  I’m here to support you, help you make sense of what’s happening, and find ways to care for yourself and your relationship.