About Individual Psychotherapy
We are all born in connection, need connection, got wounded in connection, and can heal in connection
First and foremost, I am here to be with you and to work together, creating a secure, supportive, and nurturing relationship. I believe that healing and growth are the most possible through safe bonding and connection.
There are two gates that I have found to be powerful and transformative especially when they come together, the body and the nervous system as a healer, the connection as a healer.
These two offer another way, especially when our usual ways of understanding ourselves and our emotions and making changes or being in a relationship no longer work for us.
I offer an integrative approach combining body-focused and attachment-oriented therapy, Trauma-informed and trauma-oriented therapy.
I offer support for:
Difficulties in relationships, including entering and staying in romantic relationships, challenges in friendships, and original family dynamics
Issues related to attachment trauma, pleasing patterns, depression, anxiety, guilt, and shame
Physical symptoms without a medical source that originate from stress and anxiety, including sleep difficulties, digestive system problems, fibromyalgia
Highly sensitive people (HSP)
Childhood trauma and recent traumatic experiences
My perspective remains resource and strength-focused, recognizing you as the expert of your inner world as we work toward creating healthy insights, new Inside connections, and new possibilities in the present that will open gateways to vitality, wholeness, and hope.
About Couples Therapy
The meaningful connections in our lives largely determine our happiness, satisfaction, well-being, and emotional resilience when facing life's challenges.
When the couple's relationship is strong and secure, it energizes us because life simply feels more pleasant, intimate, and gentle. We feel connected, close, loved, and loving as we move through the world with the deep sense that we are no longer alone.
When the couple's relationship faces challenges and fails to overcome them together, it becomes frustrating, exhausting, and weakening, eventually leading to an emotional distance where both partners feel unseen, misunderstood, and lonely. The feeling that your current situation is far from the love you once shared is very familiar to couples stuck in a negative dance cycle that brings more defensiveness, blame, and distancing with each turn.
Relationships are a dance, and often they get complicated... this is completely natural and human It's easy to step on each other's toes in this dance and to find ourselves in a rhythm that doesn't flow smoothly. The point isn't to dance perfectly, but to learn to identify and repair the wounds that develop in the relationship, to recognize missed moments and fix them. Attachment isn't static—it's a living quality within a connection. Naturally, we miss each other sometimes; the question is whether we know how to repair it.
Good couples aren't those who never fight or even those who fight "fairly"... because there's really no such thing—we all want to be right :)
Good couples know how to:
Identify missteps and repair them
Create emotional safety for each other
Recognize the negative cycle as the true enemy of the relationship—not each other
Understand the automatic patterns that cause pain
Create a new relational space with intimacy, closeness, and connection
These are couples whose attachment "bank account" fills with more and more moments of repair and security, closeness and tenderness, allowing both partners to feel comfortable, good, and strengthened by being together.
In fact, when our attachment works well enough and our emotional bond is strong and secure, we feel loved and loved again. Like anything we've ever learned, we can learn to create a more secure connection and discover new ways—a new dance—so we can truly feel at home in our most important relationship: our partnership.
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