Therapy for the Experiences That Continue to Affect You

You may understand why you feel the way you do and still find yourself repeating patterns you can't seem to change. Painful experiences can shape how you respond to stress, how safe you feel in relationships, how you see yourself, and even how well you sleep.

My work focuses on helping individuals and couples understand these patterns, process what continues to feel unresolved, and create meaningful change—not simply learn to cope with what hurts.

Relationships can become stuck in painful cycles of disconnection, conflict, or misunderstanding—even when you both care deeply about each other. You may have the same arguments again and again, struggle to feel heard, or find yourselves growing farther apart despite trying to reconnect.

In couples therapy, we'll look beneath the conflict to understand the emotions, attachment needs, and protective patterns driving the cycle between you. Rather than deciding who is right or wrong, we'll work toward creating greater emotional safety, connection, and understanding.

I integrate Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Gottman-informed approaches to help couples interrupt painful patterns and build a more secure, connected relationship.

Sometimes a traditional 50-minute therapy session can feel like there isn't enough time to get into the work before it's time to stop. EMDR Intensives offer extended, focused sessions that allow more time to work with a specific experience, pattern, or concern.

The longer format gives us space for preparation, processing, breaks, resourcing, and thoughtful closure without having to fit the work into a standard therapy hour. For some clients, this can provide a more focused way to work through material that continues to feel unresolved.

Perimenopause and menopause can affect far more than your physical health. You may find yourself feeling more anxious, irritable, overwhelmed, or simply unlike yourself. Changes in sleep, mood, concentration, relationships, and how you respond to stress can make an already demanding stage of life even harder to navigate.

Therapy can give you a place to make sense of these changes and develop practical ways to manage the emotional and relational impact. Together, we can work toward greater self-compassion, confidence, and a sense of steadiness during this transition. When insomnia is part of the picture, CBT-I strategies may also be incorporated when appropriate.

Painful experiences can continue to affect how you feel, respond, and connect long after the experience itself has passed. Whether through adolescent therapy, individual therapy, or couples counseling, trauma-informed therapy and EMDR can help you understand these patterns, process unresolved experiences, and reduce the hold the past has on your life today. Additionally, family therapy may provide supportive strategies to cope with these challenges.

VGrief often follows the death of a loved one, but loss can manifest in various ways, such as shifts in relationships and significant life transitions. These experiences can leave you feeling overwhelmed and disconnected, making it hard to know how to move forward. Participating in individual therapy, particularly CBT therapy, can offer a supportive environment to help you process your feelings about the loss. For those affected, family therapy or couples counseling can be beneficial, allowing you to navigate these emotions together and carry what matters into your future.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) is an evidence-based treatment for ongoing sleep difficulties. CBT-I helps identify and change the thoughts, behaviors, and sleep patterns that can keep insomnia going, helping you develop healthier sleep patterns and greater confidence in your ability to sleep.

For clients who desire it, Christian faith can be thoughtfully integrated into therapy. Together, we can explore how your faith, values, and relationship with God intersect with emotional healing, relationships, grief, shame, boundaries, forgiveness, or other concerns you're bringing to therapy. Faith integration is always guided by you and is never assumed or required.