Individual therapy or counseling can be something you engage in yourself privately, or as part of couples therapy, parent-child therapy, or for something for your child individually.
Whether you're seeking support for yourself, your relationship, or your child, therapy with me offers a space where you can feel genuinely accepted, understood, and emotionally safe. Here, you will be seen, heard, and supported without judgment. Together, we create a secure foundation from which you can explore your experiences, deepen your self-understanding, and move toward the person you are becoming.
My approach is grounded in the Person-Centered philosophy developed by Carl Rogers, which is based on the belief that every individual has an innate capacity for growth, healing, and resilience. Even when life feels overwhelming, I believe there is always potential for change and renewal.
I see each person as more than the challenges they face. Your experiences, emotions, and relationships have shaped how you navigate the world, and together we make sense of those patterns with compassion and curiosity. My role is not to tell you who to be, but to offer a safe, attuned, and trusting therapeutic relationship where healing can emerge naturally and lasting change becomes possible.
Children experience and express themselves differently than adults. They often lack the words to explain overwhelming emotions, confusing experiences, or difficult life transitions. Instead, they communicate through play.
My work with children is rooted in Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT), an evidence-based approach that recognizes play as a child's natural language and toys as their words.
In the playroom, your child leads the process while I provide consistent emotional attunement, empathy, acceptance, and thoughtfully placed limits that create both safety and freedom. Through imaginative play, art, storytelling, movement, and creative expression, children process experiences, develop emotional awareness, strengthen self-confidence, and discover healthier ways of relating to themselves and others.
Rather than directing children toward predetermined solutions, I trust in their innate capacity for growth. My role is to carefully follow their lead, reflect their emotional experience, and create the conditions where healing can occur from the inside out.
Parents are an essential part of this process. I regularly collaborate with caregivers to strengthen attachment, support emotional development, and help families extend the therapeutic relationship beyond the playroom into everyday life.
Anonymous client
Life has a way of leaving us disconnected from ourselves.
Anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship difficulties, perfectionism, childhood wounds, and major life transitions can create patterns that once helped us cope but now leave us feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected from who we truly are.
Person-Centered Therapy offers a space to slow down, make sense of your experiences with curiosity and compassion, and reconnect with your authentic self.
I believe healing doesn't happen because someone tells you who you are—it happens when you are met with the acceptance, understanding, and emotional safety needed to discover yourself.
Our work together is collaborative. I won't tell you what to think or who to become. Instead, I listen deeply, reflect what I notice, ask thoughtful questions, and help you uncover the strengths, resilience, and inner wisdom that already exist within you. As trust develops, you'll gain greater clarity, confidence, and the freedom to live in a way that feels more aligned with who you truly are.
When working with adolescents, I tailor therapy to each young person's developmental stage and individual needs. Depending on their age and preferences, I integrate Person-Centered Therapy with Child-Centered Play Therapy and creative approaches such as art therapy, providing developmentally appropriate ways for young people to express themselves, process emotions, and build resilience.
RESEARCH ON THE PERSON-CENTERED THERAPY APPROACH
Although I draw from several evidence-based approaches—including Person-Centered Therapy, Child-Centered Play Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), attachment theory, neuroscience, and EMDR—my primary therapeutic orientation remains deeply person-centered.
Research consistently demonstrates that one of the strongest predictors of successful therapy is the quality of the therapeutic relationship itself.
Whether I'm sitting on the floor building with blocks alongside a child, helping a parent strengthen connection with their family, or supporting an adult through life's most difficult seasons, my goal remains the same:
To provide a relationship where you feel deeply seen, genuinely understood, emotionally safe, and accepted exactly as you are.
Because when people experience that kind of relationship, remarkable things begin to happen.
They become more curious instead of fearful.
More compassionate instead of self-critical.
More connected instead of isolated.
And over time, they begin to trust themselves again.
Sometimes the parts of ourselves that create the greatest struggle are actually trying to protect us.
You may notice one part of you striving for perfection while another feels exhausted. One part longs for closeness while another pushes people away. You may criticize yourself harshly while another part simply wants peace.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) helps us understand these internal conflicts with compassion rather than judgment.
Rather than trying to eliminate difficult emotions or behaviors, we become curious about the protective roles they have played throughout our lives. As these parts begin to feel understood, they often become less extreme, allowing your natural qualities of calmness, confidence, compassion, and clarity to emerge.
We have all known those sudden, disorienting moments when our emotional weather changes without warning. You are sitting at your desk or cooking dinner, and a seemingly minor email or a partner’s casual tone sends some anxiety through your chest or body. Or perhaps a sudden wave of heaviness settles over your shoulders, draining your motivation before the day has even begun.
When difficult experiences remain emotionally overwhelming despite your best efforts, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) can help the brain process memories that feel "stuck."
Trauma is not defined only by catastrophic events. Experiences such as childhood emotional neglect, painful relationships, medical procedures, grief, bullying, or repeated experiences of feeling unsafe can continue to influence how we think, feel, and respond long after they have passed.
When appropriate, I integrate EMDR into therapy to help reduce the emotional intensity of distressing memories which can clear the way for healthier beliefs about yourself and your life. Although IFS also does this, as it gets at the aspects of oneself that feel the trauma and allows for processing those thoughts and feelings
EMDR is always incorporated thoughtfully and at your pace, within the context of a trusting therapeutic relationship.
Emotions are a vital part of being human. They provide valuable information about our needs, experiences, and inner world. Rather than blocking, ignoring, or numbing them, learning to understand our emotions is essential for well-being, personal growth, and meaningful change.
Drawing on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), we explore the emotions that often lie beneath anxiety, conflict, withdrawal, and feelings of disconnection. As you begin to understand what your emotions are communicating, new possibilities emerge—for healing, greater self-compassion, and healthier, more fulfilling relationships. This is also the primary approach I use in my work with couples.
Instead of becoming caught in automatic emotional patterns, therapy can help you recognize them with curiosity, understand where they come from, and respond with greater awareness, intention, and choice. Over time, this creates space for more authentic connections with yourself and the people who matter most.
For clients who desire faith to be part of the therapeutic process, I offer the option of integrating Christian and faith-based perspectives with evidence-informed counseling approaches. My own faith aligns with this work, and I received clinical training in a faith-based training setting, which provided experience thoughtfully incorporating clients’ spiritual beliefs, values, and practices into counseling.
My approach remains client-centered, meaning that the client’s needs, goals, values, and lived experience guide the therapeutic process. Faith is incorporated only when a client desires it and in ways that respect the client’s autonomy and individual relationship with God and spirituality. Rather than imposing particular beliefs or using faith to minimize emotional pain, I seek to create a compassionate and nonjudgmental space where clients can explore how their faith intersects with relationships, identity, grief, trauma, forgiveness, boundaries, meaning, and healing.
When appropriate, I may also integrate principles from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). EFT helps clients identify underlying emotions, attachment needs, and relational patterns that can become hidden beneath conflict, withdrawal, fear, or disconnection. For clients seeking Christian counseling, this work can include exploring how faith, attachment, emotional vulnerability, and relationships influence one another while maintaining a clinically grounded therapeutic process.
Faith-based counseling may include discussion of prayer, Scripture, spiritual practices, Christian values, questions of meaning or purpose, and the client's relationship with God, according to the client's preferences and therapeutic goals. Clients are always welcome to determine the degree to which faith is incorporated into sessions.
My goal is to provide a space in which clients seeking Christian counseling do not have to separate their emotional and relational experiences from an important part of who they are. Therapy can honor both psychological understanding and spiritual values, helping clients pursue healing, healthier relationships, greater emotional connection, and growth in ways that are meaningful and congruent with their faith.
Healing rarely happens in isolation. It happens in relationship.
Whether you are seeking support for your child, navigating the challenges of adulthood, healing from past experiences, or simply longing to feel more connected with yourself and those you love, therapy offers a space where lasting change can begin.
Together, we will create a path toward greater emotional well-being, healthier relationships, and a life that feels more authentic, meaningful, and fully your own.
