Therapy for self-esteem focuses on helping you recognize your worth, challenge negative beliefs about yourself, and develop more accurate self-perceptions.

Similarly, identity exploration helps you explore and understand your sense of self, including your values, beliefs, and roles, to create a clearer and more authentic personal identity.

Therapy for trauma and C-PTSD helps clients process and heal from past traumatic experiences, rebuild a sense of safety, and develop healthier coping mechanisms to manage the ongoing effects of trauma.

Complex trauma therapy focuses on healing from prolonged or repeated traumatic experiences, helping clients process deep emotional wounds, regain control, and rebuild trust in themselves and others.

You may have been “parentified” as a child, meaning that you took on more emotional or practical responsibility than appropriate, leading to enmeshment and codependency. Therapy for adult children of emotionally immature parents helps individuals process the impact of growing up with emotionally unavailable, overbearing, or unpredictable caregivers.

We will work to help you heal from unresolved childhood wounds, develop self-compassion and a stronger sense of self, and set healthier boundaries while navigating your relationship with your parents and with others.

Life transitions, such as loss, moving, career changes, break-ups, engagements, and other milestones, can bring up all sorts of feelings.

I walk alongside clients navigating significant life changes by providing support, curiosity, clarity, and strategies to adjust and thrive during these periods of growth.

I support clients struggling with depression by uncovering the root causes of their feelings, challenging negative thought patterns, and developing practical strategies and realistic goals to improve mood, self-care, and self-efficacy.

I am particularly passionate about helping clients with PMDD (premenstrual dysphoric disorder). Together we will work to understand your body and the phases of your cycle to feel more empowered in managing physical and emotional symptoms such as intense mood swings and irritability.

Exploring body image helps individuals challenge negative perceptions of their bodies and deconstruct unhelpful messages rooted in diet culture and social pressures. We will work to foster self-acceptance and to embrace principles like Health at Every Size (HAES), focusing on overall well-being rather than appearance or weight to live a more values-aligned life where thoughts about body image take up less space.

Do you feel overwhelmed, like you have no time for yourself, or like you’re on autopilot? You might be experiencing burnout, which is especially common in individuals working in the helping professions (teachers, healthcare workers, etc.) or caregivers for those struggling with physical or mental health issues.

Through counseling for burnout, we’ll identify the sources of stress, work towards setting healthy boundaries, develop coping strategies to prevent exhaustion, and prioritize realistic self-care. These sessions are about YOU and helping you connect with your needs and values.

Does conflict make you extremely uncomfortable? Are you focused on how others perceive you? Do you prioritize the needs of others over yourself? Do you feel like you have to give 110% to be worthy? You may be struggling with people-pleasing, which often goes hand-in-hand with perfectionism.

Addressing people-pleasing and perfectionism helps clients understand the roots of their need for approval, set healthier boundaries, reduce shame, and develop self-compassion and self-worth outside of others. The goal is to allow clients to break free from the pressure to constantly meet others’ expectations and instead foster a greater awareness of their own needs, desires, and values.

Working on relationship issues can help within the context of both individual and couples therapy. We will work to identify underlying patterns and roles, improve communication, identify needs, develop emotional awareness, resolve conflicts through repair, and strengthen emotional intimacy. The goal is to build a deeper understanding of your partner in order to develop a healthier, more supportive, and fulfilling connection.

Do you feel like food consumes all of your mental energy? Does it interfere with your relationships, your career, or get in the way of living a fulfilling life? Eating disorder therapy may be for you.

I help individuals explore the emotional, social, and psychological factors contributing to disordered eating, while working to challenge harmful thought patterns, develop healthier coping mechanisms, and foster a more neutral or positive relationship with food, body image, and movement. Treatment for eating disorders also includes collaboration with other providers, such as a dietitian, physician, or psychiatric nurse practitioner in order to assure wellbeing.

I provide an affirming and supportive space for clients to explore and embrace their true identity, free from judgment, and gain confidence in expressing their gender and sexual orientation authentically.

Therapy for gender + sexuality can also focus on navigating relationships with family who do not support you, having difficult conversations with others regarding your gender or sexuality, setting boundaries, advocating for yourself, and unpacking societal discrimination and injustice.

While anxiety can be a healthy emotion that helps us stay alert and aware, persistent and intense anxiety can stand in the way of reaching your goals or living a fulfilling life.

Together, we will identify the source of your anxiety and better understand your triggers. As your therapist, I’ll guide you through uncovering the unhelpful thoughts that come up when you’re feeling anxious and help you to challenge them and assess what is actually within your control so that you feel more empowered facing triggers. Through anxiety therapy, you can expect to develop coping strategies for preventing and managing anxiety and building distress tolerance around uncertainty.