My approach

For individuals, couples and families, I combine natural curiosity, intuition, and learned modalities such as Family Systems, Somatic Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to create a stimulating and healing environment. I believe that humor, use of metaphor, imagination, and playfulness (trying on new hats or changing patterns) can be a part of a productive therapeutic relationship.

As a couples therapist, I combine Family Systems, Gottman Techniques (Level 1), and PACT techniques (Level 1), and I have years of experience treating families and couples. I am a firm believer that relationships can thrive when partners continue to be curious about one another and have a growth mind-set.

I am willing to include partners, family members or friends of my individual clients, if we mutually agree that it will be beneficial to their individual therapeutic progress.

I am trained in many different modalities, and I am continuing to expand my knowledge and practice to include Internal Family Systems and Ketamine-Assisted Therapy.

I take a collaborative approach to my work and consider therapy a partnership. I use a psychodynamic lens when considering the relationship between myself and my clients, and I believe that each relationship is special and important, and a therapeutic opportunity.

We start with family of origin. It is important for me to learn about a person’s childhood and family of origin, so that we can notice patterns and habits that originated early. Many coping mechanisms adopted to survive a challenging or misaligned childhood may no longer be serving a person in adulthood. We can look at this together and create new behaviors and relationships that better fit one’s current experience. Learning about your attachment style(s) is also beneficial in improving adult relationships.