Therapy is not one thing. And the person sitting across from me is never one thing either.
Over the course of my training and my years in practice, I have come to believe that the most important question in therapy is not which technique to apply, but what this particular person, with this particular history and this particular inner world, actually needs in order to heal. The answer to that question is almost never simple, and it is almost never the same twice.
My approach is integrative in the deepest sense of the word. Not a menu of techniques applied in rotation, but a genuine attempt to bring together the most relevant and resonant frameworks for each person I work with. The foundation is always relational and depth-oriented. What I layer onto that foundation depends on who you are, what you are carrying, and where the work needs to go.
What follows is an honest account of the approaches that most inform my practice — what they are, where they come from, and why I find them meaningful.
Depth work for what lies beneath the symptoms you can name — the relational world that shaped you, the unconscious patterns that drive you, and the wounds that never fully healed because they were never fully seen. As a Certified Relational Psychodynamic Therapist, I treat the therapeutic relationship itself as a primary site of healing.
Learn moreSome trauma doesn't respond to talking about it. Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) is a trauma therapy that works at the brainstem level — where the shock of trauma is first registered and so often stays lodged. As a Level 3 trained DBR therapist, I use it with clients carrying trauma in their bodies that other therapies have only gone so far to reach.
Learn moreClinical hypnosis is not stage performance or loss of control. It is a focused, collaborative, evidence-based state that makes it possible to work with material ordinary conversation can't reach. As a Certified Hypnotherapist and ASCH Approved Consultant, I use it as an integrated part of depth-oriented therapy for trauma, depression, anxiety, and chronic pain.
Learn moreExistential psychotherapy meets the questions therapy doesn't always make room for — meaning, mortality, freedom, isolation, and what makes a life worth living. Rooted in the existential and phenomenological tradition at the heart of my training, it takes your suffering seriously as a signal pointing toward something larger than a diagnosis.
Learn moreThere is a particular exhaustion that comes from working hard on yourself and still finding the same things waiting for you. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is built for the deeper architecture of the self — the patterns formed before you had words for them, the defenses built to survive what was too much to feel, the relational wounds quietly running in the background. It is the oldest form of depth work we have.
Learn morePACT — the Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy — works with what is happening inside each partner's nervous system in the moments things fall apart. For couples carrying infidelity, relational trauma, chronic disconnection, or the strain of one partner's mental health, it goes deeper than communication worksheets.
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Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (Level 1)
Deep Brain Reorienting (Level 1)