Underpinning my work is a respect for each of our stories and what it means to be a human being; that suffering is an intrinsic part of life; and that an essential part of living well is actively tending to our own processes of growth and change. I honor the fact that listening to yourself can be a radical endeavor in a culture that often prioritizes producing over humanness, and avoidance over authenticity.

At its core, my work is helping people learn to listen. This means working together is about slowing down to notice lived experience in real time. I’m interested in how patterns show up, how feelings emerge and shift, and how healing happens when we’re able to be with pain that we’ve previously avoided or not been able to understand. Many of the people I work with come to therapy with a sense of being lost, or being stuck in a pattern of suffering without understanding why, or with awareness of what’s wrong but needing a space to pause daily life and go inwards.

In more clinical terms, my work is rooted in attachment-focused and trauma-informed approaches - I help people understand how relationships (especially the earliest ones in our lives) impact being able to feel emotionally safe with themselves and others. My practice integrates relational psychodynamic frameworks, experiential attachment approaches, and humanistic/existential traditions. I provide skills and strategies where appropriate, but the focus of my practice is lasting understanding and change rather than quick solutions.