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Relationships exist in almost every facet of life, whether they are romantic, friendship, work and school related, or through recreational activities. It can be confusing and disorienting to not have the impact we were expecting in those relationships or achieve the level of intimacy we are hoping for (or not hoping for). Being able to better understand your feelings, wants and needs allows you to be more clear and confident with yourself and others in achieving the desired relationships you not only want, but deserve. Exploring patterns of people-pleasing, triggering events, and other behaviors that cause there to be an undesired effect is one of the most rewarding issues to work through in therapy.

Complex trauma isn't a single bad moment—it's what happens when a person, often a child, lives through prolonged or repeated overwhelming experiences, usually in relationships where they should have felt safe. Unlike single-incident trauma, complex trauma shapes how the nervous system develops, affecting emotional regulation, self-concept, and the ability to trust others. Research on polyvagal theory helps explain why: chronic stress trains the body to stay on high alert, making calm feel unfamiliar or even unsafe. The good news is that the nervous system remains adaptable throughout life. With the right support, people can build new patterns of safety, connection, and self-trust—healing isn't about erasing the past, but changing your relationship to it.

Existentialism may sound scary to some, but it is comprised of 4 basic tenants that we all, at some point or another, have to confront. Isolation (vs Togetherness), Responsibility (vs Freedom), Meaningfulness (vs Meaninglessness) and ultimately Death (vs Life). If and when you find yourself wrestling with one or more of these, existential therapy helps you to conquer anxiety with thoughtfulness, presence and becoming comfortable in the uncomfortable.  Logotherapy is a school of thought that believes that finding meaning, especially during dark times, can be a solution to suffering.

The goal of exploring your financial well-being is to learn how finances intertwine with other aspects of your emotional and relational life. Instances that we would use financial therapy is in cases such as: suspected financial abuse by a spouse of family member, processing the death of a loved one through their will and the outcomes, identifying and working through old money scripts, managing shame cycles around having more money than you have in the past through promotions, family wealth transfers, or entering a career with a large starting salary. There are many other ways financially therapeutic interventions can help alleviate anxiety and other feelings regarding money.

With ERP, we work together to slowly and compassionately identify and confront the thoughts and situations that create anxiety and learn through controlled exposures to build trust within yourself that when triggered, your mind and body can come back to homeostasis naturally (by widening your window of tolerance). I use ERP for anxiety and OCD treatment.

We're only just beginning to understand the full landscape of neurodivergent brains—how they're wired and how much of what's been pathologized is actually a different way of processing, connecting, and experiencing the world. For many who are diagnosed later in life, there's a profound and often painful reckoning that follows: realizing you've spent years, decades, masking who you really are in an attempt to feel safe and/or accepted. Unmasking is sacred work—it means grieving the version of yourself shaped by survival, while slowly getting reacquainted with the one that was always there. That process can surface real trauma: the exhaustion of masking, the confusion of not having language for your experience sooner and the grief of misunderstood years. Through this comes something extraordinary—acknowledgement of strong pattern recognition, creativity, intensity of focus, empathy, and insightful problem-solving.