Therapy That Goes Beyond Talking

You can understand your patterns, know where they came from, and still find yourself feeling anxious, overwhelmed, disconnected or caught in the same familiar responses.

My approach to therapy brings together emotional, relational and body-based ways of working. Rather than focusing only on what you think, we can also explore what you feel, what happens in relationships, and how your experiences are held within the nervous system.

Therapy is collaborative and individualized. I draw from several complementary approaches depending on what you need, including Somatic Experiencing®, AEDP, attachment-focused, psychodynamic and experiential psychotherapy.

Sometimes what we understand intellectually is still carried in the body.

Somatic Experiencing® is a body-oriented approach that brings gentle attention to the ways stress, emotion and overwhelming experiences can show up within the nervous system.

You might notice this as tension, anxiety, feeling constantly on alert, difficulty settling, numbness, disconnection, or a sense that your body reacts before your mind has time to catch up.

Rather than requiring you to repeatedly revisit difficult experiences, we can slow things down and become curious about sensations, emotions, impulses and patterns as they arise. The work is paced collaboratively, with attention to what feels manageable for you.

Over time, this can support greater awareness of your nervous-system responses and help you develop more capacity for regulation, connection and choice.

The goal isn't to force the body to change—it's to create enough safety and awareness for new responses to become possible.

Emotional change happens through experience, not insight alone.

AEDP—Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy—is an experiential approach that focuses on what is happening emotionally in the present moment.

Together, we may slow down and notice feelings that are difficult to access, understand protective patterns, and explore what happens when emotions are experienced in a safe, supportive relationship.

This work can be especially helpful when you already understand your history or patterns intellectually, but still feel disconnected from your emotions or find yourself reacting in familiar ways.

My AEDP training is integrated with attachment-focused and relational therapy, allowing us to work with emotion, connection and the therapeutic relationship as part of the healing process.

The aim is not simply to talk about change, but to help you experience something different.

Understanding the Patterns We Bring Into Relationships. 

The ways we learned to connect, protect ourselves and seek closeness can continue to shape our relationships today.

Our earliest relationships can influence how we experience closeness, trust, conflict, vulnerability and emotional safety. These patterns may show up in romantic relationships, friendships, family relationships—and even in the relationship we have with ourselves.

You might notice yourself pulling away when relationships become emotionally close, worrying about being rejected or abandoned, struggling to express your needs, over-functioning for others, or finding yourself caught in familiar relationship dynamics despite wanting something different.

Attachment-focused and relational therapy helps us become curious about these patterns without judging them. Together, we can explore how they developed, what they may have helped you navigate in the past, and whether they are still serving you now.

The therapeutic relationship itself can also become a safe place to experience new ways of being understood, expressing emotion, setting boundaries and staying connected.

When relationship patterns become more understandable, we can begin creating more choice in how we connect—with others and with ourselves.

Understanding What Lies Beneath the Pattern

Sometimes our reactions today make more sense when we understand the experiences that shaped them.

Psychodynamic therapy explores how earlier experiences, relationships and emotional patterns may continue to influence the way you experience yourself and others today.

Together, we can become curious about recurring themes, protective strategies or internal conflicts that seem to emerge automatically—even when part of you knows they no longer fit your life.

My work is integrative rather than based on one rigid method. I draw from psychodynamic, somatic, attachment-focused and experiential approaches depending on what is emerging and what feels most helpful for you.

This allows us to work with the whole person—your thoughts and history, but also your emotions, relationships, nervous system and present-moment experience.

Understanding where a pattern came from can be important. Experiencing something different is what can begin to change it.