there are many reasons people choose to start psychotherapy.

perhaps you are fed up with trying to navigate repetitive, difficult, and painful dynamics with loved ones. maybe, despite success or accomplishment, you feel stagnant, dissatisfied, or confused about your life trajectory. you may find yourself struggling to tolerate unknowns, uncertainty, and change. no matter the cause, despite doing your best, you feel disconnected, purposeless, or stuck.

in the collaborative and care-centered process of psychotherapy, you don’t have to carry the sadness, fear, or suffering alone. it is by gaining clarity and understanding about yourself — your interior landscape, daily experience, personal history, and relationships — in the safety of our relationship that you may grow toward clarity, purpose, and change.

philosophy & approach

i work with people as they explore where they learned who they need to be in order to maintain relationships. many of us, early on, became entangled with stories that told us we need to be something other than who we are to be connected. we developed ways to be that we believed would keep people close — but, usually, that meant pushing aside or denying parts of ourselves.

i support you to find connection with your truest self so you may move more authentically and toward what you truly desire. by exploring relationships with self, others, and environment, past and present, we identify and evaluate patterns that are disruptive and preventative to leading the kind of life and having the kinds of connections you deserve.

my approach is familiar, honest, reflective, and collaborative. in our conversations we spend time in the intellectual, insightful space of wanting to know and make sense of as well as in the complicated feeling depths.

i place as much emphasis on the external context of your experience as the internal, striving to work from an anti-oppressive, anti-racist, feminist lens with acknowledgement for each individuals lived experience and intersecting identities.

i work to co-create a consistent, authentic, and meaningful connection with those i work alongside so that the therapeutic relationship may be a foundation from which to explore new, healthy, and fulfilling ways of engaging with ourselves and others.

areas of focus

individuals

  • painful and difficult dynamics in family, partner, peer, and employment relationships

  • difficulty tolerating unknowns, uncertainty, and change

  • feelings of stagnancy, confusion, or angst about life trajectory

  • a desire for self-understanding, awareness, and growth

  • loss and grief

parenthood and perinatal

i work with individuals and couples throughout the entire spectrum of the perinatal period. in particular, i am specialized in supporting those who are…

  • feeling the societal tension of parenthood pulled to orient toward your child over your self

  • struggling to balance your longings and desires with your partners’, compounded by the presence of a new child

  • anxious, worried, and fearful about your capacity to meet the needs of your child

  • longing to reconnect with a version of you before having children

  • becoming so consumed with conceiving that it’s hard to think or talk about anything else

  • feeling alone, alien, or incompetent in your role as a parent

  • navigating the unknown possibility of becoming a parent due to infertility

  • struggling in partnership to find each other or connect due to pressures of parenting

  • navigating different parenting approaches struggling to compromise without being critical or dismissive of each other’s style

couples

most of us aren’t taught how to be in relationship. we fall in love and build a life without ever really developing a vision of where we are going or how we are going to get there together. instead, we find ourselves muddling through the messiness of trying to meet the needs of another without losing ourselves. we butt heads, hit walls, ignore, avoid, yell, run away, shut down, and grasp. ultimately, we end up feeling disconnected — left alone, not good enough, unwanted, or misunderstood.

relationships, though, have the ability to be an experience of profound safety, healing, and care. when you learn who you and your partner really are and what you both really need, you develop the ability to do what is best for your relationship without doing so at the expense of you. ultimately, there is space for both individuals to be fully themselves without having to risk disconnection. in a secure relationship you learn to cultivate safety, express yourselves wholly, and create solutions that work for you, your partner, and your relationship.

i support couples in building a secure-functioning, collaborative, connected relationship particularly through periods of distress using the Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT). to learn more about the PACT approach, check out The PACT Institute.

working together

to begin working together, please reach out so that we may connect for a brief (15-20 minute) consultation call free of charge. this will allow us to decide if we believe we will be a good fit to begin a full consultation process over 3 to 4 sessions. if i feel i can help, and if the initial sessions feel useful to you, we will continue on a regular basis.

all sessions are conducted via telehealth at this time.

i typically meet with individuals weekly for 50-minute sessions. the session fee is $165/50min.

when working with couples, i encourage meeting for two session hours (100min) at the start of our work. the session fee is $185/50min.

working outside of managed-care networks allows us greater flexibility, increased privacy, and an individualized focus. if you live in oregon and would like to utilize insurance, i would be considered “out of network.” i am able to provide you with a monthly superbill that you may submit to your insurance provider for partial reimbursement.

i am able to accept reduced rates when needed.