How I Work
Therapy isn't one-size-fits-all. I draw from several approaches depending on what you're navigating and how you're wired. Here's what that can look like in practice.
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You're the expert on your own life. This approach follows your lead — your goals, your pace, your definition of progress. Everything else I do sits on top of this foundation.
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Looks at the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Useful for catching unhelpful thought patterns and building practical coping strategies. It's structured, evidence-based, and a good fit if you like to understand why something works.
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Originally developed for intense emotional experiences, DBT is now widely used for anyone who feels things deeply and wants more tools for distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and navigating relationships. Heavy on skills, which I like.
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Goes deeper than CBT to look at the core beliefs, mean brain thoughts, and patterns formed early in life — the ones that keep showing up in your relationships and your sense of self, no matter how much you know better. Good for people who've done "the work" and still feel stuck.
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Based on the idea that we're not one single self, but a collection of parts — some protective, some wounded, some just trying to keep the peace. Helps make sense of inner conflict and builds a more compassionate relationship with yourself.
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Focuses on emotion and attachment as the root of how we connect and disconnect. Particularly useful for understanding relationship patterns and the fears that drive them.
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Sometimes you don't need a framework. You need a consistent, non-judgmental space to process what's happening, think out loud, and feel less alone. Supportive therapy is exactly that.
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I'm a big fan of assessments as a starting point. They give us a shared language and can surface things that are hard to articulate on your own. Depending on what you're working on, we might explore personality frameworks like MBTI or Enneagram, attachment style, trauma history through ACEs screening, ADHD and neurodivergent traits, or values clarification. Nothing is mandatory — but most people find them genuinely illuminating.
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Explores how your past — early relationships, formative experiences, unconscious patterns — shows up in your present. Less about symptom management, more about understanding the deeper why behind how you think, feel, and relate. Good for people who want to go beneath the surface, not just cope better on top of it.
