Who I help
- Adults living with anxiety or chronic vigilance
- People affected by trauma or difficult past experiences
- People who overthink, analyze, and still feel stuck
- People who understand their patterns intellectually but react the same way regardless
When knowing isn't the same as feeling
It's a familiar and frustrating experience: you can explain exactly why you feel anxious, defensive, or shut down, and the explanation changes almost nothing. Some part of you still braces for danger that your thinking mind has already ruled out.
That gap makes more sense than it seems. A person can consciously believe they're safe while another part of their experience continues to respond as though they're not. Therapy is partly the work of finding out what that other part still expects, and why.
What therapy with me is like
I tend to treat symptoms as something closer to evidence than malfunction. Anxiety, avoidance, shutting down, or holding people at a distance usually developed for reasons that made sense at some point, even if those reasons aren't easy to see anymore. My job is less to correct you and more to get curious alongside you about what your reactions are actually protecting.
That curiosity usually involves talking things through carefully, but it isn't limited to conversation. Sometimes the most useful information shows up as a bodily sensation, an image, or a reaction you didn't expect, and the words come later. I'm comfortable working with both the analytical and the less easily explained parts of your experience.
Ways I may be able to help
Trauma Therapy
Past experiences can continue shaping present reactions long after the danger that produced them has passed.
Anxiety Therapy
Anxiety can persist even when you know your fears are unlikely or understand where they come from.
Therapy for People Who Overthink
Overthinking can feel protective and exhausting at the same time.
When You Understand the Problem but Still Feel Stuck
A person can understand why a pattern developed while still feeling it automatically.
Therapy for Relationship Patterns and Trust
You can understand exactly why you keep people at a distance, or why closeness makes you anxious, and still find yourself doing it anyway.
Therapy for Shame, Self-Criticism, and Perfectionism
A harsh inner critic or a perfectionism that's never quite satisfied can feel like the only thing keeping you safe, respectable, or acceptable.
Insurance I accept
I am in-network with the following insurance providers. Visit the Fees and Insurance page for full payment details.
- Aetna
- Anthem
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Cigna
- Optum
- UnitedHealthcare