Depth-oriented therapy for people healing from trauma, complex family dynamics, and long-standing emotional patterns.
For thoughtful, self-aware people who want to stop being so hard on themselves and relate to their inner world with more kindness.
On paper, your life might look good. You’re functioning, showing up, doing what you’re supposed to do. You’re managing your life… but not fully connected to the experience of living it.
You might find yourself being hard on yourself, feeling disconnected, or caught in patterns you understand but can’t seem to shift. You have insight, but don’t know what to do with it.
This is the kind of work I love.
I help people move beyond just managing their lives and actually connect to themselves. To feel more authentic, more at ease, and more like someone they genuinely enjoy being.
Even if only part of you relates to this, that’s often enough.
How I work:
I pay close attention to both your emotional world and your nervous system. Sometimes that means gently exploring the ways earlier relationships shaped how you experience yourself today. Sometimes it means noticing what your body is holding in the present moment. Insight matters, but meaningful shifts often happen when understanding begins to connect with emotional and bodily experience.
A cornerstone of the work I do is helping people relate to themselves with more gentleness and kindness: Many thoughtful, perceptive people have spent a lifetime attending carefully to everyone else’s needs while being quietly hard on themselves. Therapy can become a place where that pattern begins to soften and a more compassionate relationship with yourself can begin to take shape.
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adult children of emotionally immature parents
If you grew up with caregivers who were emotionally unavailable, inconsistent, or self absorbed, you might have learned to be the easy one, the responsible one, or the one who doesn’t need much. On the outside, things can look put together, but internally there is often a quiet loneliness, self doubt, or a sense of never quite feeling met. The impact of that often shows up more deeply than people expect, even if it is hard to fully name.
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relationship patterns and attachment wounds
You might find yourself repeating the same relationship dynamics, feeling overlooked, overgiving, or unsure where you stand. Even when you can see the pattern, it can be hard to change. There is usually a deeper logic to it that starts to make sense once you slow down enough to really see it. Until then, it can feel like you are stuck in something you already understand but cannot shift.
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depression and emotional heaviness
Life can still look intact on the outside. You’re functioning, doing what you’re supposed to do, but internally something feels heavier than it should. Things take more effort, and there can be a kind of flatness or disconnection that’s hard to explain and easy to carry alone. Sometimes depression is obvious. Other times it’s quieter, more insidious, just a sense that something hasn’t felt like you in a while. Both matter.
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high insight but still feeling stuck
It’s possible to understand yourself really well and still feel caught in the same patterns. Knowing why something is happening doesn’t always change how it actually shows up. At a certain point, it starts to feel frustrating, like the insight is there but nothing is really shifting. Like you get it, but you still don’t know what to actually do with it.
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self-criticism and learning to relate to yourself differently
You might believe that being hard on yourself is what keeps you on track or protects you from getting things wrong. Over time, that voice can start to feel like the truth. But living in a critical relationship with yourself changes the way everything else feels. It can quietly shape how you move through your day, your relationships, and your sense of yourself.
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feeling disconnected from yourself or unsure who you are
It’s more common than people realize to not fully know who you are. Life can keep moving while you feel a little removed from your own experience. You have a relationship with yourself, whether you’re aware of it or not. This work is about helping you actually connect to it.