How I Work
Therapy with me is collaborative, reflective, and relational.
I don’t believe therapy is about fixing you or forcing change before you’re ready. Instead, our work is about understanding the patterns, responses, and protective strategies that developed over time and creating space for something different.
I approach therapy through the lens of the nervous system and the body because experiences are held not only in thoughts but also physiologically and relationally.
Together, we explore what’s happening beneath the surface while building greater awareness, connection, and flexibility at your pace.
What therapy may feel like together
Slowing down overwhelming
Exploring patterns
in relationships
Tracking nervous system responses
Understanding different parts of yourself
Increasing awareness without judgment
Building more flexibility and connection over time
The approaches that shape my work
No single framework fully explains human experience. Because of this, I integrate several approaches to understand people emotionally, relationally, systemically, and somatically. These approaches are not used to guide an understanding of healing, relationships, and nervous system regulation.
Click below to learn more about the approaches that guide my work.
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-based approach that focuses on the nervous system and how stress, trauma, and overwhelm are held within the body. Rather than only talking through experiences cognitively, we may slow down and notice sensations, patterns, tension, impulses, or shifts happening in real time. The goal is not to relive trauma, but to support your nervous system in building more flexibility, safety, regulation, and connection over time.
IFS (parts-work) is based on the understanding that we all have different “parts” of ourselves that developed to help us survive, protect, or cope. Some parts may hold anxiety, shame, anger, perfectionism, or fear, while others work hard to keep things under control. Together, we explore these parts with curiosity rather than judgment, creating space for greater self-understanding, compassion, and internal connection.
Attachment work focuses on how early relationships and life experiences can shape the way we connect with ourselves and others. These patterns may show up in relationships through anxiety, withdrawal, people-pleasing, fear of conflict, difficulty trusting, or feeling disconnected. Therapy can help increase awareness of these patterns while creating new experiences of safety, communication, and connection.
Our identities, cultures, relationships, family histories, and social experiences all shape how we move through the world. This framework acknowledges the impact of power, oppression, race, gender, culture, and systemic experiences while creating a collaborative space where your lived experience is honored rather than pathologized.
Therapy may support you in navigating:
- Unresolved trauma
- Feeling "stuck"
- Struggles with self-care
- Overwhelming anxiety or panic attacks
- Medical trauma
- Grief & loss
- Familial conflict
- Societal pressures
- Insomnia
- Romantic intimacy
- Postpartum depression
- Shifts in career or friendships