My approach
How I work
believe that most of the patterns and symptoms that bring people to therapy, anxiety, codependency, unexplained pain and digestive issues, panic attacks, burnout, disconnection, the sense that something is perpetually wrong, are not character flaws. They are intelligent adaptations to overwhelming experiences, and most of them formed long before we had the capacity to understand what was happening to us.
Symptoms are not the problem. They are the body's best attempt at a solution, and they deserve to be met with curiosity, not judgment.
Understanding them is rarely enough to change them. These patterns don't live primarily in thought. They live in the body, in the nervous system, in the unconscious relational templates we carry. They respond not to explanation but to something different. A felt experience of safety. A nervous system that finally gets to complete what it once couldn't. A relationship in which the earliest wounds can be met with something other than what created them. That is the level where this work operates.
My approach is integrative and relational at its core. I don't hand you a toolkit and send you home. I work with you closely and carefully, attuning to what you bring into the room and following what is alive rather than applying a technique from a distance.
What many people find here is something they didn't know they were looking for. Not just support, but the experience of being truly seen. That quality of presence is not incidental to the work. It is the work. Healing happens in relationship, and you deserve to feel witnessed and held in your deepest truths.
Who this work is for
Adults carrying childhood wounds, from trauma, neglect, enmeshment, or families where love came with conditions, who find those early patterns showing up in their relationships, their sense of self, and sometimes in their bodies as chronic symptoms that doctors keep dismissing.
People who feel stuck in relational patterns: giving too much, losing themselves in relationships, struggling to set limits, or repeating dynamics that feel painfully familiar.
Those who sense there is a deeper dimension to their healing, who are drawn to questions of meaning, purpose, and what it might feel like to truly inhabit their own life.
High-achieving people who look fine from the outside but feel chronically exhausted, anxious, or empty, who have been taking care of everyone else for so long they've lost touch with themselves.
People who have spent years in talk therapy and still feel like something essential is missing. People who understand their story intellectually but can't seem to feel it shift in their body or their life.
People who have done intensive work in a residential or outpatient program and are ready to continue going deeper, who know what real healing feels like and don't want to lose the momentum they worked so hard to build.
Core modalities
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Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic work brings curiosity to the unconscious. It explores the early relational patterns, attachment wounds, and internalized beliefs that quietly shape how we see ourselves and others. By bringing curiosity to how your past lives in your present, we create the conditions for insight that doesn't just explain your patterns but actually begins to change them.
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Somatic Experiencing (SE)
Developed by Dr. Peter Levine, SE works with the body's held survival responses. It addresses the energy of fight, flight, or freeze that gets stuck when trauma isn't fully processed. Rather than retelling your story, we work with what your body is doing right now, helping your nervous system complete what it couldn't at the time.
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Post Induction Therapy (PIT)
Developed by Pia Mellody and taught at The Meadows, PIT addresses the childhood wounds — neglect, abandonment, enmeshment, abuse — that shape codependency, low self-worth, and relational patterns in adulthood. Through an experiential parts-work process, we go to the root and gently reparent your inner wounded parts.
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Meaning, depth & soul
Healing from trauma is not just about addressing what happened, it's about reconnecting with what makes you feel alive. For those who are interested, I weave in spirituality, mythology, the natural world, and a sense of the sacred as doorways into meaning, purpose, and a deeper relationship with yourself.
Areas I work with
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Trauma & the nervous system
- Complex trauma (C-PTSD)
- Childhood trauma
- Emotional Neglect
- Relational trauma
- Hypervigilance
- Freeze and shutdown
- Somatic symptoms
- Dissociation
- Nervous system dysregulation -
Relationships & Self
- Codependency
- People-pleasing
- Difficulty setting limits
- Fear of abandonment
- Enmeshment
- Attachment wounds
- Low self-worth
- Chronic self-criticism
- Identity confusion
- Imposter syndrome -
Anxiety, Burnout, & Mood
- Chronic anxiety
- Depression
- Burnout
- Emotional exhaustion
- Perfectionism
- Overwhelm
- Hopelessness
- Stress
- Grief and loss
- Life transitions -
Meaning & Growth
- Spiritual emptiness
- Loss of purpose
- Disconnection from self
- Feeling lost or stuck
- Longing for deeper meaning
- Inner child work
- Personal transformation
- Reconnecting with joy -
Addiction & Recovery
- Substance use history
- Alcohol dependency history
- Co-occurring disorders
- Trauma and addiction
- Relapse and recovery
- Behavioral addictions
- Family affected by addiction
- Early recovery support
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Nature & Embodied Healing
- Ecotherapy
- Walk and talk therapy
- Outdoor somatic work
- Nature-based nervous system regulation
- Healing through the natural world
- Land-based practice
- Embodied presence
- The natural world as spiritual resource
If you've read this far, something brought you here. That's worth paying attention to.
I offer a free 20-minute consultation, not a sales call, just a real conversation about what's bringing you here and whether working together feels like the right fit.