Individual Therapy
Understand the patterns that shaped you. Change the ones that no longer serve you.
Sometimes you know exactly why you struggle—and still can't seem to stop the pattern.
You may recognize that you become overly invested in relationships, fear rejection, have difficulty trusting others, constantly question yourself, or feel responsible for keeping everyone around you happy. Maybe anxiety has taken over more of your life than you would like. Perhaps something painful happened years ago, but you still notice its effects in the way you think, feel, or relate to other people today.
Individual therapy can help you move beyond simply understanding what is happening and begin creating meaningful change.
I work with adults experiencing relational and attachment trauma, OCD, anxiety disorders, trauma and PTSD, difficult relationship patterns, low self-worth, and major life transitions.
My approach is warm and collaborative, but it is also active. I believe feeling understood is important—and I also want therapy to help you develop a different relationship with your emotions, your thoughts, your relationships, and yourself.
Relational & Attachment Trauma
The relationships we experience throughout our lives help shape what we expect from other people.
Experiences involving rejection, abandonment, emotional neglect, inconsistent caregiving, betrayal, manipulation, criticism, or unhealthy relationship dynamics can leave us with powerful beliefs about ourselves and relationships.
You may find yourself:
Afraid of being abandoned or rejected
Becoming highly emotionally invested in relationships
Struggling to trust that someone genuinely cares about you
People-pleasing or avoiding conflict
Feeling responsible for other people's emotions
Having difficulty setting or maintaining boundaries
Staying in relationships that repeatedly hurt you
Feeling uncomfortable when relationships are calm or less intense
Questioning your own needs, emotions, or perceptions
Wanting closeness while simultaneously being afraid of it
Using attachment-based therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy, we can explore the emotional experiences underneath these patterns.
Rather than simply asking, “What's wrong with me?” therapy helps us become curious about another question:
“What happened that taught me I needed to respond this way?”
From there, we can work toward developing greater emotional security, stronger boundaries, healthier communication, increased self-trust, and relationships that feel safer and more reciprocal.
OCD & Anxiety
Anxiety often tells us that if we think long enough, prepare enough, check enough, avoid enough, or receive enough reassurance, we can finally feel certain.
Unfortunately, the search for certainty often makes anxiety stronger.
For OCD, I provide Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), a specialized evidence-based treatment designed to interrupt the cycle between obsessive fear and compulsive behavior.
Compulsions are not always obvious. They can include checking, reassurance seeking, avoidance, confessing, researching, mentally reviewing conversations, repeating thoughts or prayers, monitoring your body, or trying to determine with absolute certainty whether something is safe.
In ERP, we work collaboratively to help you gradually face uncertainty and anxiety while reducing the behaviors that have been keeping the fear alive.
The goal isn't to never experience an anxious thought again.
The goal is to be able to have an anxious thought without needing to reorganize your life around it.
Trauma & Cognitive Processing Therapy
Trauma can change the way we understand ourselves and the world around us.
After something painful happens, people often develop conclusions such as:
"It was my fault."
"I should have known."
"I can't trust anyone."
"I'm not safe."
"Something is wrong with me."
"If I let my guard down, I'll get hurt again."
I provide Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for appropriate clients experiencing PTSD and trauma-related symptoms.
CPT helps us identify the beliefs—or stuck points—that developed following trauma and carefully examine whether those beliefs accurately represent what happened and what is true today.
We may explore how trauma has affected areas such as safety, trust, power and control, self-esteem, and intimacy.
The goal is not to minimize what happened.
It is to help what happened stop determining what you believe about yourself and what you expect from your future.
Therapy That Goes Beyond Insight
Understanding yourself matters.
But sometimes you've already spent years understanding yourself.
You know where the pattern came from. You know that your anxiety is irrational. You know the relationship is unhealthy. You know you shouldn't need reassurance.
And yet knowing hasn't been enough to change it.
My approach combines insight with active therapeutic work. Depending on your needs, we may challenge trauma-related beliefs, practice tolerating uncertainty, identify attachment patterns, strengthen boundaries, reduce compulsive behaviors, improve communication, or practice responding differently to emotions and relationships.
Therapy is individualized. You are not a diagnosis, and you do not need to fit neatly into one treatment model.
Ready for something to change?
You don't have to wait until things become unbearable to begin therapy.
If you are looking for a therapist who combines warmth and compassion with active, evidence-based treatment, I would be glad to talk with you about whether we may be a good fit.