Clinical philosophy:

Difficulties in life, work, and relationships often evoke symptoms that are too much to handle on one’s own.  My response to patients’ distress is based in a trust within—and valuing of—the psychotherapeutic relationship, one rooted in dialogue, experiential-emotional process, and insight-oriented techniques.  Using an interdisciplinary approach, I engage patients’ concerns while drawing upon my training and background in existential-humanistic, relational, and psychodynamic psychology.

Through these paradigms, I view therapy as a space for patients to explore their experiences in an increasingly busy, hyper-distracted, and fractured world.  In treating these issues with empathy, my approach embraces depth psychology alongside practical and embodied mindfulness techniques for the sake of grounding therapeutic work.

These methods honor complex aspects of identity, history, and vulnerability that shape the stories we are living, as well as the cycles of distress we endure.  In turn, my efforts support patients in identifying psychological and somatic patterns tied to such cycles, and aim to cultivate adaptation, meaningful change, and resilience. 

My orientation also lends attention to relational dynamics, including interpersonal attunement, recognition, and acceptance, particularly in processing trauma.  Its basis in close listening, narrative reflection, and focused-presence offers patients opportunities to reorient their emotional experiences. Within such a framework, collaborative therapeutic perspectives develop, which seek to improve overall self-understanding.