about me

I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and much of the way I understand people comes from looking beyond symptoms and asking what is happening around them—their relationships, their history, the roles they have learned to play, and the patterns they may find themselves repeating.

Over the years, I have worked with individuals, couples, and families navigating anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, grief, trauma, addiction, and significant life transitions. I draw from evidence-based approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy while also working from a systemic perspective. I’m interested not only in what someone is experiencing, but in how it makes sense within the larger context of their life.

I tend to be curious about people. I pay attention to contradictions, recurring patterns, the things we avoid, and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and who other people are. Therapy with me is collaborative and conversational, with room for insight, humor, honesty, practical work, and sometimes an uncomfortable question when it seems important.

Outside of therapy room, that curiosity follows me. I enjoy literature and psychology, traveling, being active, learning new things, and creative projects. I’m particularly drawn to ideas about relationships, human behavior, and change—and to books that make me think, even when the characters frustrate me enough to put them down for a while.

I don’t believe therapy is about becoming a perfectly adjusted version of yourself. People are complicated, relationships are complicated, and meaningful change rarely happens in a straight line. Sometimes therapy is about changing something. Sometimes it is about understanding something differently.

And sometimes it begins simply by becoming curious about something you’ve been carrying for a long time.