Clinical philosophy and approach:

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 existential-humanistic, relational, and psychodynamic practices.

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

These methods honor complex aspects of identity, personal history, and vulnerability that shape the stories we are living, as well as the varying cycles of distress and suffering we endure. In turn, my efforts support patients in identifying psychological and somatic patterns tied to such cycles, and focus on cultivating awareness, adaptation, agency, and hope.

My orientation also lends attention to relational dynamics, including factors shaping interpersonal attunement, recognition, and acceptance, particularly in processing dissociation and trauma.  Its basis in narrative reflection and focused-presence offers patients opportunities to reorient emotional experiences. Within such a framework, collaborative therapeutic perspectives and understanding develops, which seeks to improve well-being.