My Approach to Therapy

You don't need another place to just vent.

Talking about what happened matters. But the real work is understanding why it affected you the way it did.

Why does someone else being upset make you feel like you need to fix it?

Why is it so hard to say what you actually want before it turns into resentment?

Why do you shut down or pull away when what you actually want is to feel understood?

Why does slowing down, resting, or doing “enough” make you feel like you’re doing something wrong?

We'll get curious about the patterns underneath what you're experiencing. Once those patterns start to make sense, you have more choice in what happens next.

Insight is only useful if something changes.

I'm not a therapist who will just sit back and nod.

I'll ask questions. I'll point out patterns. I'll tell you when I notice something happening in the room. And we'll practice different ways of responding so that what you learn in therapy actually shows up outside of it.

The goal isn't to keep you in therapy forever.

It's to help you understand yourself well enough that you don't need me to do it for you.

No single approach works for everyone.

Depending on what you need, I draw from EMDR, Emotionally Focused Therapy, the Gottman Method, CBT, and other evidence-based approaches.

The method matters. But what matters more is understanding what keeps you stuck and figuring out what actually helps you move forward.

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