I am a licensed clinical psychologist with more than thirty years of experience. My primary focus is individual adults, and I also work with children, couples, families, and groups. My work has been shaped by sitting with people in complex, emotionally charged situations and learning how to meet them in ways that are clear, compassionate, and engaged.

Alongside my work with individuals, I have spent over twenty‑five years supporting families navigating distance, rupture, and complicated connection. I was doing this work long before it was commonly named “estrangement,” which gives me a long view of how these patterns develop and how people respond to them over time.

I have developed a specialty in complex situations where symptoms, history, and relationships intersect, including with people who have not felt fully helped in prior therapy. I draw on evidence‑based approaches and years of advanced training and, just as importantly, on a deep respect for your lived experience and the pace at which real change can unfold.

A good fit often comes from how it feels to be together: whether you feel understood, whether the pace feels right, and whether the work helps you stay connected to yourself. Therapy works best when you feel seen and valued without being shielded from the discomfort that helps things shift. A sense of safety often comes from being able to stay with your experience, in your body and emotions, with someone who can help you hold it.

In our early meetings, we talk about what life has been like for you recently and what you hope might feel different. I share what I am noticing as we go, and you are welcome to share what comes up for you. These conversations help us understand what supports you and whether this relationship feels like a good fit for you right now.

Many of the adults I work with are navigating experiences that feel overwhelming on the inside, even if life looks fine from the outside. This can include:

• persistent stress, anxiety, or inner pressure
• depression, numbness, or feeling disconnected from yourself
• trauma, medical stress, or experiences that were too much to manage alone
• grief and loss, including complicated or traumatic grief
• relationship strain, family conflict, or long‑standing patterns that feel stuck
• questions about identity, belonging, or major life transitions
• work and career pressures, including the strain that comes with high responsibility or public‑facing roles

I also support adult children and parents working through distance, strain, or estrangement, as well as children, teens, and families navigating medical challenges, neurodivergence, trauma, or intense emotions.

Therapy is shaped around what you are facing and what you hope might feel different. Much of change happens in relationship, in the experience of being met, understood, and not alone with what feels hard.

I pay close attention to what is happening in your life and how you are experiencing it, and we work together in ways that feel useful for you. My approach draws from psychodynamic, mindfulness-based, somatic, and behavioral therapies, woven together in a way that fits who you are and what you are going through. These perspectives help us understand what is happening inside you and support the changes you want to make.

Change often involves both intention and something closer to surrender: effort without forcing, clarity without pressure. This can make more room for compassion, both for yourself and for the people in your life.

Many people notice that as their attention widens beyond just themselves, something in them softens and grows. Viktor Frankl described this as self‑actualization coming “as a side‑effect” of loving or engaging with something beyond us.

None of this asks you to ignore your own pain or needs; it simply means that, as we tend to what hurts, new possibilities for relating to yourself and others can begin to open.

I work with adults of all ages, children ages 3 and up, couples, and families. People come from many different backgrounds, identities, and family structures, and I take care to understand the experiences that have shaped your life and relationships.

Many people come to me after therapy that didn’t feel helpful. Some share that they didn’t feel heard or understood, or that they couldn’t be fully honest. Others say the therapist’s reactions seemed to get in the way, or that they weren’t sure what the therapist was focusing on, so the work never reached the places that mattered. Over time, it can start to feel like therapy simply can’t help.

It’s also common not to know exactly what you’re looking for or where to begin. You might just know that something feels off, too heavy, or unsustainable, without having clear language for it. That uncertainty is welcome here; it doesn’t prevent you from starting.

Your past experiences in therapy, and your questions or hesitations about beginning again, matter. They help us understand what didn’t feel right, what felt unfinished, and what you hope might be different now, even if you can’t fully name it yet.

Our work is interactive and responsive. You don’t have to protect me, filter yourself, or pretend something is working when it isn’t. We pay attention to what happens between us and use it to build a relationship that feels respectful and genuinely supportive of where you want to go.