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 provide evidence-based therapy for thoughtful, reflective adults across New York and North Carolina.
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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.
Therapy can help you move from understanding your patterns to responding differently when they actually show up.
My approach is active, collaborative, and grounded in evidence-based therapies. Together, we may work on managing difficult emotions, examining beliefs that keep you stuck, changing relationship patterns, approaching anxiety differently, processing painful experiences, or clarifying the values and priorities you want to guide your life.
Our work is tailored to you—not a diagnosis or a single therapy model—with the goal of helping you develop greater flexibility, confidence, and freedom in how you respond to yourself, your relationships, and the challenges in your life.
These may sound familiar…
Exhaustion & Burnout
You feel wired but tired—your mind keeps running even when your body is drained.
Constant Overthinking
Your mind tries to anticipate problems, stay ahead of uncertainty, or analyze every decision.
Emotional Intensity
Your feelings can surge quickly or disappear into numbness, making it hard to feel centered.
Old Patterns Holding You Back
Long-standing habits, old protective responses, or past experience keep influencing how you show up today.
Nervous System on Edge
You notice subtle shifts in tone or environment that keep your body on high alert.
Self-Criticism & Perfectionism
It's difficult to soften toward yourself, even when you're doing your best.
Even capable, thoughtful people can find themselves trapped in patterns, overthinking, or overwhelm.
Moving Toward Aliveness
It is possible to understand yourself remarkably well and still feel stuck.
You may recognize where your patterns came from, know why certain situations affect you, and still find yourself responding in ways that don’t reflect the person you want to be or the life you want to create.
Therapy offers a place to understand these patterns more deeply while also learning how to change your relationship with them.
Our work may involve exploring how earlier experiences and relationships continue to shape the way you see yourself and others. We may examine beliefs and assumptions that have become so familiar they feel like facts. We may work with difficult emotions, practice new ways of responding when those emotions are intense, or become more curious about the patterns that emerge in your relationships.
And we make room for questions that aren't simply about symptoms: What matters to you? What kind of relationships do you want to build? What do you want to stand for? What would it mean to create a life that feels more connected, meaningful, and genuinely your own?
My approach is structured without being rigid. I draw most often from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), psychodynamic approaches, and values-based work. When trauma is part of what brings you to therapy, I am also trained in EMDR and can incorporate trauma-focused treatment when it is appropriate and useful.
I don't believe every difficulty needs to be traced back to trauma, nor that you need to become “perfectly healed” before you can begin living differently. Therapy can be a place both to make sense of what has shaped you and to develop greater freedom in what comes next.
The goal is not simply to feel less distressed. It is to become more able to participate in your life—to feel, 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.