When I sit with a client, either an individual or a couple, my primary objective is to fully see and deeply understand them and their experience.  Through seeing and coming to know, healing begins.  Many of us have never felt fully seen or understood by those who raised us or those we've loved.  That absence, that ache, that yearning is often underneath the issues that bring clients to therapy.  My goal as a therapist is to collaboratively peel back the protective layers and gently reveal the wounds that drive our habits and often self-defeating patterns we use to prevent ourselves from being hurt again.  The behaviors that once protected us may now be preventing us from receiving love from others.  

Our beliefs about ourselves keep us rooted in shame, stuck in a world where we are unworthy of the things we want, including self-love.  Wouldn't it be amazing to shed those negative self beliefs and develop ways of interacting with the world that created new opportunities for growth and relationships built on trust and acceptance?  I encourage all of my clients to take accountability for what they can and discourage placing blame on oneself or others. There is freedom and power in owning one’s narrative.  

All of my work is relational, attachment based, and trauma-informed. The nature of our therapeutic relationship facilitates the work we do together. Our relationship is built on trust and my unconditional acceptance of you as a fellow human.  When we feel safe being ourselves we find the courage to be vulnerable. My hope is that through our relationship prior attachment wounds can be identified and healed and those with insecure or avoidant attachment styles can move closer to having secure functioning relationships. I want to help you find your path.