Awareness. Empathy. Compassion. Healing. Growth.

As a Psychotherapist, my goal is to help you see yourself clearly and take incremental steps toward building a life that feels stable, meaningful, and in alignment with your intentions and core purposes.

In our American culture, we aren't typically raised with a lot of education about expressing and understanding feelings, communicating about needs, caring for ourselves, and growing throughout the life span. The way I see it, being human is a real challenge, and the more skill we can build at understanding ourselves within the context of our individual and shared landscapes, the more comfortable life will be.  

One of the hard parts about life, for all of us, is facing the unknown and building capacity for how challenging it can be sometimes. I do believe, though, that learning to tolerate the hard parts can help us to recognize and savor the parts that bring us joy and a sense of well being. By expanding our emotional range to include all of it, and by working to understand our thoughts, habits, and patterns, we can more fully inhabit this precious opportunity for repair, healing, and growth.

When people ask me what kind of therapist I am, I sometimes hesitate... how shall I answer this question in a way that will help this particular person to understand the special range of what I have to offer?

In simple terms, I am a clinically trained and licensed psychotherapist... and I am also more than that.  

I am an artist and designer, with special training that supports me in using creativity and the arts as vehicles for healing. I am a dedicated yogi and meditator, with a trustworthy personal practice that I turn to for refuge. I am a bodyworker, with a reverence for the sacred privilege of hands-on therapeutic work. I am a dancer who came to movement as an adult, with a great affinity for play and improvisation. 

I'm very interested in potential, and I am driven to reach mine and help you reach yours. I am curious about the ways in which we each make sense of the circumstances of our lives, and I genuinely enjoy connecting with others and seeing life through different lenses.

All of these aspects of who I am come together in my work as a therapist, providing me with the skill to provide linear and individualized solution-oriented support, as well as the ability to be a curious and patient witness to non-linear, internally-oriented explorations.

What would it be like to live as if anything were possible, while also existing realistically within the limits of our individual experiences? Can we allow the past to be the past, while intentionally taking action in the present, in order to move toward a future that suits us?

I certainly don't know how you might answer these questions, but for me, I like to take an attitude of: let's find out.