Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
- Mary Oliver
Welcome
You feel ready
to make some positive changes in your life, in your relationships, and you need a professional therapist and a safe, supportive environment to help you do that work.
I have over 25 years experience and extensive training in doing therapy with individuals, couples, and families. I can help people mindfully build greater awareness of their somatic and emotional selves, and access their more capable, confident, and resilient natures. In this way, we learn to have more emotionally connected and secure relationships, with ourselves and others. We discover we can feel more present and relaxed in the world.
As an attachment-based therapist
I believe that the quality of our relationships is central to the quality of our lives. Within a trusting, collaborative therapeutic relationship, I am able to help individuals dealing with depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, anger, loss, grieving and relational difficulties.
More and more I have come to see that the state of our internal relationships, those existing between our core selves and the younger parts within us, is also vitally important to our wellbeing and our ability to navigate the world with compassion, courage and clarity.
Internal Family Systems has been described as “taking attachment theory inside” (Dr. Richard Schwartz), and this idea has also come to inform my therapeutic work. Taking attachment theory inside, I can help you accept and even welcome those parts of yourself that seem unlovable, creating an internal feeling of safety and connection that you can depend on, even in hard times.
My particular specialization
is doing emotionally focused therapy (EFT) with people whose relationships have become places of fear, insecurity, anger and loneliness, where earlier bonds of intimacy, trust and emotional safety have gotten hurt, unravelled over time. If the closeness that you’d hoped you could depend on forever seems to have disappeared, replaced by distance and confusion, I can help rekindle the kind of intimacy and connection your’ve been longing for in your relationship. For couples in distress, I offer a short-term, structured, emotionally-focused therapeutic approach that creates a closer, more intimate and secure connection, a way back to the heart of your relationship.
Beginning therapy is a big step. It takes courage to risk change. I can help you build the security and confidence it takes to move towards growth, healing and creating the kind of life and relationships that you most need.