Therapy is an excavation. It is a cathartic oxygenation of buried emotions done by the client and the therapist. It is my goal as a therapist to create a safe place for you to be willing to go through pain, trusting that healing is on the other side. My therapy style is warm, humorous, and nurturing, which helps my clients feel the safety and comfort necessary to look within themselves and then make actual positive and potentially transformative changes in their lives through reflection and the conversional power of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).

Any course of therapy should start with an intention—what emotional issue brings you to therapy? Without this focus, therapy can turn into weekly check-ins where change rarely occurs. My objective is for individual therapy to be time-limited. Neither the patient nor the therapist should want therapy to last forever. Ultimately, my job as your therapist is to make myself obsolete. Therapy can, and should, focus on goals and outcomes, and people should be able to graduate from it. Many patients need an aggressive therapist who prods them to face what they find uncomfortable: change.

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Emotions themselves do not inhibit the therapeutic process, rather people's inability to manage emotions and use them well is the problem. My style can be described as emotion-focused, helping people become aware of and express their emotions, learn to tolerate and regulate them, and potentially transform them through reflection. Learning about emotions is not enough; instead, what is needed is for clients to experience, feel, and express those emotions as they arise in the safety of the therapy session where they can discover for themselves the value of greater awareness and more flexible emotional management. Emotion-focused therapy systematically, but flexibly, helps clients become aware of and make productive use of their emotions, using their symptoms of anxiety as an indication that feelings are being ignored or repressed.  

It is important to treat the whole person in order to find true healing. The mind, body, and heart are connected, and I use creative, holistic approaches to help my clients activate all of their natural resources to find strength and heal themselves mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually.

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I believe in the work I do. I believe change is possible because I have seen it, and I have lived it. There is nothing more exciting for me than to witness another’s curative process. Congratulations on taking this step towards joy and serenity, towards a more conscious, self-assured way of living.