My Approach
An integrative, relational, and compassionate path toward healing and reconnection.
You might be feeling anxious, overwhelmed, disconnected, or just not like yourself. Maybe you’re carrying more than one person ever should, and doing your best to hold it all together. Therapy with me is a space to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and explore what’s beneath the surface with compassion and without judgment. Together, we’ll work toward creating more ease in your body, more clarity in your mind, and more connection in your relationships. This work can help you feel less alone in what you’re carrying, more resourced in your day-to-day, and more grounded in who you are, beyond the roles and responsibilities.
I bring an integrative, trauma-sensitive approach to therapy that draws from a blend of modalities rooted in connection, curiosity, and compassion. While no two sessions are the same, below are three key ways I support clients in navigating the perinatal period and beyond.
Listening to the Body
Honoring your nervous system, building safety, reprocessing trauma, and supporting regulation
Your body holds so much wisdom. Especially during the perinatal period, your nervous system can feel overtaxed, shut down, or constantly “on alert.” Using Polyvagal Theory, and somatic approaches, and body-based trauma processing methods like Brainspotting and the Flash Technique, we’ll tune into what your body needs to feel safe, soothed, and connected, both in and out of session.
What this might feel like in session:
Noticing physical cues of stress or safety
Learning simple ways to support your nervous system, like gentle movement, breath, and other embodied strategies
Exploring the body’s responses to trauma or transition
Cultivating awareness of how your body, emotions, and thoughts are connected
Using Brainspotting or the Flash technique to access, explore, and repattern or release stuck trauma, without needing to retell your story (unless you want to!)
Working with Your Inner World
Getting curious, healing parts, understanding and re-writing your story, and reparenting with care
We all carry many “parts” inside us, like the overwhelmed part, the self-critical part, or the part that’s trying so hard to hold it all together. I draw from psychodynamic theory, “parts work,” and reparenting to gently explore these parts, help you understand their roles, and support them with compassion. Narrative therapy also plays a role here, helping us understand the stories you’ve inherited or internalized, so you can begin to reshape them in ways that feel empowering and true.
What this might feel like in session:
Getting to know different emotional parts of you with curiosity and empathy
Rewriting internalized stories (like “I’m not enough,” “I should have…,” or “I have to do it all alone”)
Bringing kindness and care to your younger, hurting parts
Making sense of how earlier relational experiences and attachment patterns may still be shaping how you feel, cope, and connect today
Living in the Present with Meaning
Making space for emotions, finding clarity, and moving toward what matters to you
Hard feelings like grief, anger, fear, or uncertainty don’t always go away, but we can learn to hold them differently. Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), mindfulness, and values-based exploration, I support clients in staying present with what’s here, connecting to what matters most, and gently moving forward with more clarity and self-trust.
What this might feel like in session:
Practicing mindfulness or grounding techniques
Exploring your values and the kind of life you want to build, and ways to begin walking that path
Gently making room for painful thoughts and emotions, building capacity to stay with them without needing to fix or avoid them
Relating to your inner experience with more compassion, flexibility, and less struggle
Together, we can work towards:
A greater sense of safety, calm, and resilience in your body
A more compassionate relationship with yourself
The ability to respond to your emotions with curiosity instead of fear, anger, and anxiety
Clarity around your values and the kind of parent, partner, and person you want to be
Processing and healing from past experiences and traumas that still affect your present
A stronger sense of connection to yourself and those around you
Whether you're navigating the identity shifts of new parenthood, processing a difficult birth or loss, or simply trying to feel like yourself again, you don’t have to do it alone. Therapy can be a place where you care for yourself, and find more ease, joy, and connection.