What is your therapeutic approach?

Taking the first steps in starting therapy, or starting therapy with a new person, is a very daunting experience. Understanding what that can be like, I aim to create an environment where you feel comfortable to share and move at your own pace. I believe our upbringing, relationships, life experiences, and society as a whole heavily influence our unique identity. I combine this focus in the process of supporting you to explore and understand your thoughts and underlying emotions, to uncover patterns of unhelpful beliefs or actions, and how you relate to yourself and others.

As a Marriage and Family Therapist, my focus is not just on your own individual self, but how external people and factors influence you, as well. I work from a humanistic, depth-oriented, family systems approach that is psychoanalytic and eclectic, as each person is different and there is no method that is one size fits all. Depending on your needs, I am influenced by Narrative, Cognitive Behavioral, and Collaborative theories. For couples, I integrate the Gottman Method, along with Imago and Emotionally Focused Theory.