The people I work with come for different reasons.
Some are trying to find their way through a painful season in marriage. Some are preparing for marriage and want to begin with transparency and intentionality. Some are parenting through conflict, distance, or disappointment. Some are trying to understand family patterns that keep repeating. And some are trying to make sense of their own anxiety, grief, anger, faith, loneliness, or inner criticism.
The details are different, but the work often shares a common shape: slowing down what has become automatic, understanding what is happening beneath the surface, and practicing new ways of responding to yourself and the people you love.
Couples
I've noticed that the couples who genuinely like each other the most are often the ones who become really good at having the conversation about the conversation. They don't just work through conflict. They become curious about how they're relating while they're in it.
Whether you're feeling distant, caught in the same painful arguments, recovering after betrayal, or simply longing to reconnect, our work together is about more than solving today's problem. It's about understanding the patterns shaping your relationship and developing new ways of relating that endure long after therapy ends.
Premarital
The best preparation for marriage isn't predicting the future. It's learning how to grow together when life surprises you.
Premarital counseling creates space to better understand yourselves, each other, and the patterns each of you will bring into your marriage. My hope is to help you build the kind of relationship that can continue growing through conflict, disappointment, change, and joy.
Parents
I've noticed that parents often become more patient with their children after they become more compassionate toward themselves.
Whether you're raising young children, navigating adolescence, or trying to reconnect with an adult son or daughter, parenting has a way of revealing parts of ourselves we never expected to meet. Together we'll work toward understanding what is happening in the relationship and responding in ways that align with the parent you hope to become.
Families
I've noticed that families often change most when everyone becomes more interested in understanding the pattern than proving a point.
Families rarely become stuck because one person is the problem. More often, everyone becomes caught in patterns that no one intended and no one fully understands. Family therapy creates space for each person's experience to be heard while helping the family recognize those patterns and begin creating healthier ones.
Individuals
I've noticed that when we are struggling and longing for change, we usually begin by working to change one of two things: our circumstances or our perspective. Sometimes struggle turns to crisis because we keep pushing ourselves to see things differently when circumstances in our life actually need to change. Other times, we exhaust ourselves trying to change everything around us when the needed change is in how we see, understand, or respond. Wisdom begins with learning where the work is actually needed.
Anxiety, grief, loneliness, transitions, questions of faith, purpose, and relationships can leave us feeling stuck or overwhelmed. Individual therapy creates space to slow down, understand what is happening, clarify what matters, and begin moving toward the kind of change the moment is actually asking for.
My Approach
My work is grounded in family systems thinking and informed by attachment science, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), the Developmental Model, and trauma-informed care.
These frameworks shape the questions I ask and the way I understand people, but every conversation begins with the unique story of the person sitting in front of me.
Fees
50-minute session: $135
80-minute session: $185
If you'd like to explore whether working together would be a good fit, I'd be glad to offer a free 15-minute phone consultation.
