Relational Depth at the Heart of the Work
At the foundation of everything I do is a simple conviction: you are worth understanding deeply. Rather than treating your struggles as problems to be managed or smoothed over, I treat them as meaningful, as signals pointing toward something tender and unfinished underneath. So much of what shapes us lives just beneath our awareness.
So many of the people I work with built a life around what they were supposed to want: meeting expectations, earning approval, becoming who their families and the world needed them to be. And then a question begins to surface: Is this all there is? I don't hear that question as something gone wrong. I hear it as an invitation, a call to set down the self you assembled in order to survive or belong, and to become the one you were always meant to be. Together, we take that longing seriously, and let the search for meaning become the very heart of the work.
More than any single method, it's the relationship between us that makes this kind of depth possible. If you grew up feeling unseen, you likely learned to meet others from a place of caution, self-protection, or quiet self-erasure, giving much, needing little, staying a step ahead of everyone else's feelings. Those early ways of relating don't stay in the past; they follow us, often without our noticing, into the relationships that come after... and they tend to surface here too, in the space between us. That isn't something to avoid; it's exactly where the work comes alive.
When an old, familiar way of relating shows up in real time, we can gently notice it together and come to understand it from the inside. I bring my full, attuned presence to this. I pay close attention to what moves between us, trusting it has something important to tell us about what you've carried and what you most long for. Because the hurts that formed in relationship are the ones that heal in relationship. A steady, honest, deeply attentive connection becomes the place where you can feel truly seen, maybe for the first tim, where the old stories about who you have to be can begin to loosen, and where you can practice a freer, truer way of being with another person. This is the relational, depth-oriented frame that holds everything we do together, the ground beneath the specific methods I describe below.
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy
EMDR is an evidence-based therapy that helps the nervous system process the wounds of trauma and other adverse life experiences. The model underlying it holds that the psyche is naturally wired to heal, but when we experience "too much, too fast," or "too little, too long" (as in years of feeling unseen or emotionally unmet), those experiences can overwhelm us and get "stuck," surfacing later as a range of distressing emotional and physical symptoms.EMDR helps these experiences become "unstuck," or reprocessed, reconnecting you with your innate capacity to heal—so the past loosens its grip and stops shaping your present.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy
IFS is an evidence-based therapy that helps you heal by getting to know and caring for your inner parts. The mind naturally has many parts—and that's a good thing—but when we've been hurt, shamed, or left alone, some parts can be pushed into extreme roles: the inner critic, the wounded child, the relentless achiever, the watchful protector.We also each have a core Self that cannot be damaged and that knows how to heal. By helping you access that Self and lead from it, IFS restores connection within—and, in turn, with the people around you.
Clinical Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy
Clinical hypnosis is a safe, natural state of focused attention and deep absorption, much like the feeling of being completely lost in a book, a film, or your own thoughts. In this state, the mind becomes more open to insight, imagination, and change, and we can gently access the subconscious material that talk alone doesn't always reach.Guided by a trained clinician, hypnosis can help shift long-held patterns in thought, emotion, and behavior. You remain fully in control the entire time; it's not about being controlled or "zoned out," but a doorway to the deeper parts of the psyche, where old patterns can begin to transform from within.
Somatic Therapy
As a liberation-oriented practice, we strive to be anti-oppressive and work to decolonize therapy. We commit to confronting and disrupting oppressive systems in ourselves and in our profession. This looks like unlearning our own internalized -isms and phobias; examining our privileges; minimizing power dynamics between therapist and client; practicing transparency; inviting ongoing feedback; being accountable for our mistakes; and investing in communities and movements that are making systemic change. We invite you to consider how historical, intergenerational, societal, and institutionalized systems of oppression are directly connected to your wellbeing in your body, mind, and spirit. We strive to hold a safe and affirming space to explore this path to collective liberation together.
Liberation Psychology
As a liberation-oriented practice, we strive to be anti-oppressive and work to decolonize therapy. We commit to confronting and disrupting oppressive systems in ourselves and in our profession. This looks like unlearning our own internalized -isms and phobias; examining our privileges; minimizing power dynamics between therapist and client; practicing transparency; inviting ongoing feedback; being accountable for our mistakes; and investing in communities and movements that are making systemic change. We invite you to consider how historical, intergenerational, societal, and institutionalized systems of oppression are directly connected to your wellbeing in your body, mind, and spirit. We strive to hold a safe and affirming space to explore this path to collective liberation together.
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