Wherever you find yourself—clear on what you want to work on, confused and unsure where to begin—I am happy to support you in your journey.

I work as a person-centered psychotherapist, and while this approach is transdiagnostic and works well with a variety of mental health challenges, here are some focus areas I have developed over the course of my practice:

Young Men

Being a young adult in today’s world presents itself with many challenges. Some are common to all generations such as going to college, entering the workforce, beginning to live independently, and dating and finding a partner. Some are unique to millennials and gen z such as managing the affordability crisis, living with their parents for longer than they planned, and living in a post-COVID world. And on top of this, young men of this generation have their own unique challenge of figuring out how they can grow into a “good man” in the social tension between social justice movements and pushes towards traditionalism. 

As a young man who has been navigating these unique challenges myself, I integrate my own experiences with my person-centered therapeutic approach to offer a uniquely supportive and non-judgmental therapeutic relationship that serves as an essential tool for clients to grow into the men they want to be and live lives that they are proud of.

Exposure Response Prevention (ExRP) for OCD

Having anxious thoughts and finding something to do that feels soothing and reassuring in response is a natural human experience, however, for millions of people at some point in their life this pattern will begin to spiral out of control and begin impacting their daily functioning. The term for this in the field of mental health is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). While the experience of OCD can feel debilitating and overwhelming, there is fortunately a simple and straightforward protocol for breaking free from this spiral: Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP). Using this approach in therapy, we will map out all the different areas of your life OCD has touched on, and develop a collaborative plan for gradually approaching and defusing the obsessive thoughts and anxious feelings you're struggling with so that you can return to living a life free from the limitations of overthinking and worry.

Trauma

Post Traumatic Stress is characterized by intensely painful and scary life experiences that overwhelm our capacity to effectively respond and integrate them into our lives. In therapy, my approach to working with PTSD involves utilizing an empathic and compassionately attuned therapeutic relationship, to support you to turn towards the experiences associated with the trauma in a way that allows them to be positively re-integrated, and collaborative action planning to bring a greater sense of agency and wholeness to your life. This process moves at your own unique pace, so you are not unnecessarily overwhelmed and because each person’s traumatic experience and way of making meaning of it is unique to their own lives.

Stress, Panic Attacks, and Anxiety

Anxiety is a natural part of the human experience that serves an important role, and nonetheless can become a limiting if not debilitating force in our pursuit to live meaningful lives. In therapy, my approach to working with stress and anxiety involves utilizing an empathic and compassionately attuned therapeutic relationship to build your capacity for being with anxious experiences with a diminished sense of shame and judgment as well as providing a space for liberating insights to occur that reduce your overall level of anxiety. We then build off this foundation to find ways to take action in your life that both makes life more fulfilling in ways that may have felt too scary to imagine before, as well as creating and maintaining appropriate boundaries to continue to reduce any unnecessary additional stress in your life. 

Grief/Loss

In life, we experience many kinds of loss; we lose partners, friends, careers, opportunities, chapters of our life, our physical health, abilities, and ultimately our own lives. Because we care and get so much from all of these things, when we lose them there is a natural process of grieving that needs to take place. If we do not have the adequate resources, this process of grieving may be hindered and we may find ourselves unable to continue on with our lives in the way that we wish and find a meaningful way of understanding our loss. In therapy, my approach to working with grief involves utilizing an empathic and compassionately attuned therapeutic relationship to support you to turn towards and move through the thoughts and emotions associated with the grieving process and find a way of moving forward and taking action that adequately honors what was lost, as well as helps you move into the next chapter of your life.

Depression

Sadness is a normal part of the human experience, yet at some times in many people's lives we find ourselves with a sense of bleak hopelessness that doesn’t seem to let up. This experience has come to be known as “depression” in the mental health field. In therapy, my approach to working with clients struggling with depression involves forming an empathic and compassionately attuned therapeutic relationship that then functions as a basis for bringing self-compassion and curiosity to the deeper layers of your experiences related to depression. Through doing this, shame, grief, and inner conflicts are relieved and your overall mood can improve. This works in conjunction with using collaborative action planning to find ways to be active in your life that bring authentic joy and satisfaction and act as a positive feedback loop further improving your mood and your overall feelings about your sense of self and your life.