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Services & Specializations

My approach to therapy is individualized and integrative, drawing from evidence-based and trauma-informed strategies based on each client’s needs, goals, and stage of treatment.

Therapeutic Approaches

Trauma-Informed Therapy

A compassionate, safety-focused approach that recognizes how trauma, chronic stress, and adverse experiences can affect emotions, relationships, behavior, and overall functioning. Therapy emphasizes stabilization, nervous system awareness, emotional safety, and building trust at a pace that feels manageable.

​Best for: Individuals experiencing trauma-related symptoms, chronic stress, emotional overwhelm, dissociation, anxiety, or difficulty feeling safe in relationships or daily life.

 

Key Benefits: Greater emotional safety, improved self-understanding, stronger coping skills, reduced reactivity, and a more stable foundation for healing.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

A practical, goal-oriented approach that helps identify unhelpful thought patterns, emotional responses, and behaviors that may be contributing to distress. CBT supports clients in developing healthier coping strategies, more balanced thinking, and effective problem-solving skills.

Best for: Anxiety, depression, panic, intrusive thoughts, stress, avoidance patterns, self-criticism, and difficulty managing day-to-day emotional distress.

 

Key Benefits: Improved coping skills, healthier thought patterns, reduced anxiety, better emotional regulation, and increased confidence in managing challenges.

Person-Centered Therapy

A supportive, client-centered approach that creates space for clients to feel heard, understood, and accepted without judgment. Therapy is guided by each person’s unique needs, values, and goals while fostering insight, emotional growth, and self-trust.

​Best for: Individuals seeking a supportive therapeutic relationship, increased self-understanding, emotional processing, identity exploration, or guidance through life transitions.

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Key Benefits: Greater self-awareness, stronger self-trust, improved emotional insight, increased confidence, and a therapy experience that feels collaborative and supportive.

Skills-Based & Supportive Therapy

A flexible, individualized approach that incorporates practical tools and evidence-based strategies to support emotional regulation, distress tolerance, coping, communication, and daily functioning. Therapy may include psychoeducation, grounding, mindfulness, and skill-building tailored to each client’s needs.

Best for: Clients who want practical support, emotional regulation tools, structured coping strategies, or therapy that balances insight with actionable skills.

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Key Benefits: Improved emotional regulation, stronger coping skills, increased resilience, better daily functioning, and practical tools that support long-term growth.

Therapeutic Interventions & Techniques

Thought Patterns & Self-Awareness

  • Cognitive restructuring

  • Identifying unhelpful thoughts and beliefs

  • Thought records and reflection tools

  • Increasing self-awareness and insight

  • Identifying emotional triggers and recurring patterns

  • Exploring core beliefs and behavioral responses

Coping Skills & Emotional Regulation

  • Coping skills development

  • Emotion regulation skills

  • Grounding techniques

  • Mindfulness-based strategies

  • Breathing and present-moment awareness

  • Distress tolerance skills

Practical Tools & Daily Functioning

  • Psychoeducation

  • Problem-solving strategies

  • Executive functioning support

  • Communication and boundary work

  • Building routines and sustainable coping habits

  • Goal setting and accountability

Reflective & Supportive Work

  • Journaling and self-reflection tools

  • Strengths-based exploration

  • Values clarification

  • Supportive processing of difficult experiences

  • Identity and self-worth exploration

  • Gentle, supportive challenge when clinically appropriate

Conditions & Concerns I Treat

Anxiety, Stress, & Emotional Overwhelm

Therapy can support individuals experiencing chronic worry, emotional overwhelm, panic symptoms, or difficulty slowing down when stress begins to feel constant or difficult to manage.

What it may feel like:

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  • Racing thoughts

  • Constant worry or overthinking

  • Difficulty relaxing or “shutting off.”

  • Panic symptoms or a racing heart

  • Trouble sleeping due to stress or worry

  • Feeling on edge, irritable, or easily overwhelmed

  • Avoidance of situations that feel stressful or unpredictable

  • Difficulty concentrating when anxiety is high

How therapy may help: Therapy may help identify triggers, better understand patterns of anxiety and stress, strengthen coping skills, reduce emotional reactivity, and build more confidence in managing overwhelming thoughts and feelings.

Trauma, PTSD, & Nervous System Dysregulation

Trauma can affect the nervous system, emotional regulation, relationships, and the ability to feel safe in daily life. Therapy provides a supportive space to better understand trauma responses and begin healing at a pace that feels manageable.

What it may feel like:

 

  • Feeling constantly on edge or hyperaware

  • Emotional shutdown or numbness

  • Difficulty feeling safe, even in safe situations

  • Flashbacks, intrusive memories, or nightmares

  • Strong reactions to reminders of past experiences

  • Dissociation or feeling disconnected from yourself or others

  • Difficulty trusting people or relaxing in relationships

  • Increased irritability, fear, or emotional overwhelm

How therapy may help: Trauma-informed therapy may help increase emotional safety, reduce reactivity, improve self-understanding, strengthen grounding and coping skills, and create a more stable foundation for healing.

Self-Worth, Identity, & Relationship Patterns

Many clients seek therapy to better understand themselves, strengthen self-worth, and make sense of patterns in relationships, boundaries, and emotional responses that may be affecting daily life.

What it may feel like:

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  • Difficulty trusting yourself or your decisions

  • Low self-esteem or chronic self-criticism

  • People-pleasing or difficulty setting boundaries

  • Repeating unhealthy relationship patterns

  • Feeling responsible for other people’s emotions

  • Difficulty identifying your own needs

  • Feeling stuck in the same conflicts or dynamics

  • Uncertainty about who you are or what you need

How therapy may help: Therapy may help increase self-awareness, strengthen boundaries, improve communication, explore relationship patterns, build confidence, and support a stronger sense of identity and self-trust.

ADHD, Autism, & Neurodivergent Support

Therapy can provide supportive, individualized care for neurodivergent clients navigating emotional stress, self-understanding, executive functioning challenges, sensory overwhelm, masking, burnout, and relationship difficulties.

What it may feel like:

 

  • Difficulty staying organized or following through on tasks

  • Feeling mentally overwhelmed or overstimulated

  • Emotional burnout from masking or overcompensating

  • Trouble with transitions, routines, or unexpected change

  • Difficulty managing time, focus, or motivation

  • Feeling misunderstood by others

  • Sensory sensitivity or emotional exhaustion

  • Chronic self-doubt related to past experiences or expectations

How therapy may help: Therapy may help increase insight, reduce shame, validate lived experiences, strengthen coping strategies, improve emotional regulation, and provide practical support tailored to each client’s individual needs.

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