Individual psychotherapy for adults navigating depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, and longstanding patterns — exploratory and practical, focused on understanding what's behind the symptoms, with attention to how they show up in relationships, work, and everyday life.
I work with adults navigating depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, and a range of other concerns. The approach isn't primarily skills-based — not because coping skills aren't useful, but because they rarely address what's actually driving the problem. It's built around the idea that understanding yourself — your patterns, your history, the forces that shape how you live and relate to others — matters as much as symptom relief.
Most people who come to therapy already know their symptoms and have ideas about how to manage them. They've read the books, tried the techniques, and made some progress. What they often haven't found is an answer to why the patterns keep returning — why the same difficulties show up in different relationships, why the anxiety that lifts in one area resurfaces in another, why knowing what to do and actually doing it can feel so far apart. Symptoms are usually doing something. Figuring out what, and why, is where the real work is.
Symptoms are usually doing something. Figuring out what, and why, is where the real work is.
My approach draws on insight-oriented and relational frameworks alongside cognitive and skills-based work where it's useful. I don't think good therapy belongs to any single model. What I try to bring to each session is close attention, honest feedback, and a willingness to stay with what's actually going on rather than defaulting to a script.
A lot of what happens in this work involves slowing things down. Most of the patterns that bring people into therapy are automatic. They happen faster than conscious thought, and by the time someone notices them, the moment has already passed. Part of what I try to do is create enough space in the room to catch those moments as they're happening: to notice what just occurred, what was avoided, what the hesitation was actually about. Change tends to require something real — looking at what we'd rather not, confronting what we've avoided, and trying what hasn't been tried. That's not something you navigate alone — it's something we work through together.
There's no protocol, no homework, no worksheets. The work is collaborative and individualized, more interested in patterns and meaning than in technique, but the goal is practical: real change in how people live, relate, and move through the world — not just insight for its own sake.
In practice, that often looks like: functioning well on the outside while feeling persistently off on the inside; understanding your patterns intellectually but finding them hard to shift; a sense that something is being managed but not actually resolved.
It also often means people navigating recurring patterns in relationships, self-criticism that persists despite external success, identity questions that therapy hasn't quite reached, or a chronic sense of dissatisfaction they can't fully account for.
This tends to work well for adults who want symptom relief and something more — whether that means understanding what's driving the symptoms, working through longstanding patterns, or simply having space to think carefully about what's going on. You don't need to arrive with a clear sense of what you're looking for. If you've been struggling and feel like something hasn't been fully addressed, that's often enough to start.
Therapy begins with a 75-minute intake session. This gives us time to gather relevant history, clarify what you're hoping for, and assess whether this is a good fit. Following the intake, sessions are 50 minutes and are typically scheduled weekly, though frequency can shift over time. The work is exploratory but not directionless — there's always a sense of what we're working on and why.
The length of therapy varies considerably. Some people come for a focused period of several months; others engage in longer, open-ended work. I check in periodically about how things are going and whether the direction or frequency should change. You're free to stop at any time, and I'll always support a thoughtful transition.
I keep a small caseload to ensure each client gets the attention the work requires. If you're interested in therapy, select it in the consultation form — we'll use the consultation call to talk about what you're looking for and go from there.
