About

I believe in every person, family, couple.

My Goals Are Your Goals

Every person, family, and couple comes across hardship. Whether it’s an infidelity, a life-changing illness, or the death of someone integral, life can throw some serious hurdles in your way.

In couples counseling, I bring the belief that if two people want to fix their relationship, they can, with the right tools. But some relationships aren’t that simple. Some people don’t come to couples counseling to “save their marriage,” but to save themselves. Whether you’re coming to me to mend wounds in your relationship, or simply to figure out “what happened here?”—couples counseling can help.

In family therapy, my primary goal is to hear all voices. Sometimes some voices are privileged above others. In family therapy we will work to excavate the unheard, while allowing the privileged voices the opportunity to “unburden” themselves by laying bare the issues that have led them to feel the need to take on this role, and allowing them to rejoin the family as simply a sister, a brother, a parent. In family therapy, we will strive to create an environment where all perspectives are key and where everyone can be heard.

As for individual therapy, I believe that every person is capable of fulfilling their dreams. There may be roadblocks, but I will be here with you while you cross them.. My goal in individual counseling is that you never feel all alone in the journey. I am here, whether it is to witness your pain, regret, joy or liberation.

“Curiosity comes out of a sense of safety; rigidity out of being vigilant to threats.”

— Sue Johnson, Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

My take

I have never met a couple who I thought couldn’t make it, a family that I thought could never mend. And though I’ve met couples where both parties weren’t interested in going on, as well as families where some parties were scared of change, I will believe in your relationship. I will cry when my clients have healed, I will mourn if they give up. But I will never not be on your team.

For each person, there are moments in time that imprint on us. Things that went wrong, as well as things that lifted us up. Together we will process the moments that make you feel stuck, as well as celebrate the moments that made you feel whole.