Specialties
What I work with
There’s no exhaustive list of what you can bring into a session. Most of what people come to me with falls somewhere in one of these four neighborhoods — but the work looks different for everyone, and a lot of what we work on doesn’t have a clean label. What’s listed below isn’t a menu. It’s a set of starting places for the conversation.
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When anxiety is the price of being good at your job
Anxiety in high-functioning professionals
Most of the people I see in this category are the ones nobody worries about. The reliable one. The competent one. The person who can be counted on. Other people see you having it together — turning in good work, holding things up at home, showing up for the people who depend on you — and what they don't see is the running tally underneath: the worry that today might be the day you slip, the inventory of everything that could go wrong, the way you crash on Friday night because the cost of holding it together all week comes due all at once.
Anxiety, at this pitch, is rarely the loudest thing in your life. It's the quiet engine. The thing that makes you good at your job and exhausted at the end of the day. The thing that decides at 11pm that you should re-check the email you already sent. The thing that makes rest feel like one more performance.
What I'm interested in is the underneath: where this came from, what it's protecting you from, and what it would take to start trusting that you're allowed to be a person who isn't bracing. We work with EMDR for the experiences that taught your body that staying alert is the safest thing you can do. We work with CBT to start catching the loop a beat earlier than usual. We work with mindfulness to give you a few inches of space between the thought and the reaction.
You can keep being good at what you do. You don't have to keep paying for it with your nervous system.
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When the version of yourself you used to be feels far away
Depression after major life shifts
Depression after a big shift is a different animal than the depression people picture. There's often a clear before-and-after — something happened and the version of yourself you used to be feels far away. A relationship ended. A parent died. You moved. You had a kid. You stopped having a kid in the house. A diagnosis came in. The job changed shape. You finally got what you wanted and somehow it didn't fix what you thought it would.
What people usually expect from depression — sadness, crying, despair — isn't always how it shows up here. More often it shows up as flatness. Things you used to enjoy don't land the same way. You're going through the motions of a life that should feel like yours, and it doesn't quite. You wonder, sometimes, whether this is just what being older feels like, or whether something is wrong with you, or both.
It's not just you. Identity-shifts take longer to grieve than people give themselves permission for. The work is partly about giving the loss its weight — the version of yourself you used to be deserved a real goodbye — and partly about getting curious about who you're becoming on the other side of it. We don't try to talk you out of how you feel. We slow down enough to let you actually feel it, then we work on what's underneath: the beliefs that say you should already be over this, the patterns that try to outrun the grief, the parts of you that haven't quite caught up to your new life yet.
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Trauma you can’t put down
Trauma + EMDR work
Trauma you can't put down isn't necessarily the kind that makes the news. Sometimes it's a single event you've never told anyone about. Sometimes it's a long stretch of years that didn't have one obvious moment, just a constant background hum of things being not-okay. Sometimes it's something that happened to someone you love that you can't stop carrying. Sometimes it's the thing your body remembers and your mind has tried to file away.
What makes trauma trauma — clinically, neurologically — isn't the event itself. It's that your nervous system didn't get to finish processing it. The experience got stored sideways. Years later, it can still fire in the background, shaping how you respond to a tone of voice, a kind of weather, a kind of attention from a partner. You may have spent a lot of energy not thinking about it; you may also have been thinking about it constantly without realizing it.
EMDR — Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing — is the modality I lean on most heavily here. It's a structured way of revisiting the stored experience with enough safety and bilateral stimulation that your nervous system can finally finish what it started. People often describe the result as: the memory is still there, but it stops carrying the same weight. We go gently, on your timeline. We don't barrel into the hardest material; we build enough resource and trust that, when we do get there, you have what you need to stay with it.
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When everything is different now
Life transitions — divorce, grief, career, identity
The version of "transition" that brings most people to therapy isn't the kind that makes for a good update post. Divorce. Grief. A career that ran its course. A child leaving home. A diagnosis. A move to a place you don't fully recognize yet. Becoming a caregiver for a parent. Becoming someone you didn't expect to become.
These transitions all share something in common: they rearrange how you see yourself. The old story you were telling about your life — what you're working toward, who you're doing it with, what's permanent and what's temporary — gets interrupted, sometimes violently, sometimes slowly, and you have to figure out what comes next without a map.
People often come in expecting to be told how to "process" the transition faster, or how to "move on." That isn't how I work. The actual movement happens by staying with what's true — including the parts that don't reflect well on you, including the relief mixed in with the grief, including the parts you're not supposed to feel. We work on giving the loss its real shape. We work on the patterns from earlier in your life that are getting pulled to the surface by this. And we work, slowly, on what's becoming possible — what's emerging in the space the old version left.
Most people, looking back, don't say "I got over it." They say "I'm a different person on the other side of this, and I like who I'm becoming." That's the work.
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These are the most common reasons people come to me, but they’re not the only ones. If something else is happening for you, I’d still like to hear about it.
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