My Therapeutic Approach

Using a warm, relational and trauma-informed approach, I currently specialize in helping individuals and couples navigate issues arising from parenting and the perinatal/postpartum adjustment period. I am experienced in helping clients with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and PTSD, childhood neglect, bipolar disorder, adjustment disorder, anger/rage, low self-esteem, and postpartum anxiety/depression.

My theoretical orientation is psychoanalytic, with heavy doses of multicultural and feminist influences at the forefront. This means that together we will dive deep into your early attachments and histories, gain valuable insight from your current thoughts and feelings, and increase your understanding and acceptance of yourself. Collaboratively, we will work to get under the surface of your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in order to find the root causes, and reshape the systems and internalized cultures that are no longer working for you. By identifying the things you may be avoiding, we will uncover conscious and unconscious themes and processes that have brought you here today and help you articulate your emotional life, putting words to things you may never have had space for before.

Our work together will focus on increasing psychological and emotional flexibility, making meaningful changes, and finding safety in relationships, including the relationship you have with yourself. With couples, my aim is to bring you away from the tendency to find blame in another and towards looking inward to your selves and your one-of-a-kind relationship. I’m here to help you learn new coping skills and try out new communication techniques.

My Clients

My clients range in gender, sexuality, race, and family orientation and often identify somewhere on the LGBTQIA2S+ spectrum and/or are from historically marginalized groups. In many cases, my client's have unresolved or unknown issues from childhood that have come to the surface in adulthood, sometimes in particularly triggering moments of parenting or while navigating the relationship building process.

What I’m Not

Therapy with me is not agenda driven and doesn’t include checklists, workbooks, or prescriptive gender norms. Due to the relational nature of my work, I can’t offer you quick fixes or particularly short term therapy. My role is not that of an expert who doles out advice on how I think you should live your life, but rather to help guide you towards the goal of freedom; freedom from your past, freedom of belonging in your authentic present, and freedom to redesign your life ahead.