Move beyond what keeps you stuck. Anchor in the present. Live fully, even in uncertainty.
Therapy for thoughtful adults navigating anxiety, emotional overwhelm, relationship challenges, trauma, stress, and life transitions.
I work with thoughtful adults who want to understand themselves more deeply, navigate life with greater steadiness, and make meaningful changes in how they relate to themselves, other people, and the world around them.
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Meet in a calming space in central NY, to find refuge from life’s demands.
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Meet from the comfort of your own home or the convenience of work or elsewhere if on the go. Available throughout New York and North Carolina.
Helping reflective people move beyond insight and create lasting change.
Understanding your thoughts, habits, emotional reactions, relationship patterns, and motivations can be powerful—but insight alone does not always change the patterns that leave you feeling stuck, anxious, lost, or confused.
Therapy can help you slow down, make different choices, and begin responding with more flexibility, clarity, and intention. Depending on what you need, we may work on managing difficult emotions, questioning old beliefs, changing relationship dynamics, approaching anxiety and uncertainty differently, processing painful experiences, or identifying the values and priorities you want to guide your life.
My approach is active, collaborative, and integrative. Rather than fitting you into a diagnosis or a single therapy model, we shape the work around you—drawing on practical tools, deeper exploration, and evidence-based treatment as needed.
The goal of therapy is not simply to understand yourself better—or even just to reduce symptoms—but to feel more able to live in ways that are grounded, connected, authentic, and fulfilling.
These may sound familiar…
Relationships are Challenging
You may find yourself overfunctioning, withdrawing, worrying about connection, repeating familiar dynamics, or struggling to communicate what you need.
Overthinking
Your mind rarely leaves anything alone. You replay conversations, anticipate what could go wrong, or try to think your way into certainty.
Life if Changing
A relationship, career, move, loss, age or identity transition has unsettled the story you had about what life was supposed to look like.
Feeling Stuck
You understand what you're doing and maybe even why you're doing it—but insight hasn't been enough to change the pattern.
The Past Impacts Your Present
Something you experienced continues to shape how safe, capable, lovable, or free you feel today.
Self-Criticism
Your standards for yourself are much harsher than the ones you would apply to anyone else.
Many people come to therapy because the ways they’ve been coping no longer work as well as they once did. Therapy can help create new possibilities.
Moving Toward Aliveness
Sometimes therapy is about learning practical ways to handle emotions, communicate more clearly, or respond differently to anxiety and obsessive thoughts. Sometimes it is about looking more closely at beliefs, habits, and relationship patterns that have been with you for a long time. And sometimes it is about making space for bigger questions about meaning, identity, loss, values, and what kind of life you want to build.
My approach combines structure with exploration. I draw from DBT, CPT, ACT, EMDR, ERP, I-CBT, and psychodynamic and relational approaches, depending on what seems most useful and the best fit for you.
We may work on concrete skills, process painful experiences, look at where certain patterns came from, or pay attention to what is happening in your relationships now. For clients who want it, I can also bring in an existential or Buddhist-informed perspective around acceptance, uncertainty, suffering, meaning, and how to live more fully in the life you have.
The goal is not simply to feel less distressed. It is to become more able to participate in your life—to feel your emotions, make grounded choices, build intimacy, take risks, recover from difficult moments, and move toward what matters to you.
Options for Support
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For thoughtful adults ready for meaningful change. In these 45- to 55-minute sessions, we move beyond simply understanding what is happening to exploring what keeps you stuck—and what can help you respond differently. Therapy may include DBT skills for navigating emotions and relationships, CPT and other cognitive approaches for examining beliefs and assumptions, and psychodynamic or parts exploration to better understand the experiences and relational patterns that have shaped you. When trauma is part of the picture, EMDR can also be incorporated when appropriate.
A values-centered approach runs throughout our work, helping you not only understand yourself more deeply, but make choices that move you toward the relationships, priorities, and life that matter to you.
Focus: Anxiety and overthinking, emotional regulation, relationship patterns, self-criticism and perfectionism, life transitions, trauma, and questions of identity, meaning, and direction.
A Note on Relationships: If your patterns show up most loudly in your romantic life, we can incorporate the DBT-informed framework from my workbook, DBT for Dating, helping you approach dating and relationships with greater clarity, intention, and Wise Mind.
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For partners navigating their patterns together. Using the Gottman Method, somatic tools, attachment theory, and DBT skills, I help couples move out of gridlock and into a place of mutual respect and connection. We focus on practical skills along with in-session exploration of deeper needs and values to strengthen connection.
Best for: Couples who value a structured, research-backed approach to relational health.