People Grieving

Grief is a natural process and is not something we are taught how to do. It can occur when there is a death, but also during a big life change. Sometimes an event can create a sense of absence in your relationships, even though everyone is still physically present. Acknowledging loss that occurs during any transition is a core part of my work, and I make room for clients to feel and process what can often be silenced and disenfranchised.

Ending A Relationship

I work with individual clients who are going through a divorce or breakup. There can be grief, sadness, anxiety, struggles with attachment strategies, and a journey towards reclaiming your life. I work with clients to help them experience painful feelings, accept their story, explore patterns, and work towards choosing the life they want. I make room to develop mindfulness skills that can increase self-compassion and help clients own their self-worth.

People Pleasers

It’s so easy to see what other people need and take care of them, and then turn around and feel resentful that no one sees your needs. Or perhaps you often wish you knew how to handle conflict or stand up to someone. I often work with people who second-guess themselves and self-identify as people pleasers.

Intimacy Struggles

Can you be your true self with other people? How is it for you to be vulnerable with other people? Intimacy is more than sex; it’s the way you allow yourself to be seen and see others. Maybe you struggle to trust that others are going to show up for you or that you are worthy of their love and attention. You may doubt that other people want to be there for you. Or, perhaps you have minimized your needs and created an almost compulsive self-reliance, which makes it hard to receive affection and experience pleasure. This can often impact your partnerships and your sexual life. I work with people to explore dynamics in their past relationships, their family life growing up, understand their current sexual desires, and identify their needs in a safe space to work towards more authenticity and self-assertion to bring into a current or future relationship.

Life Transitions

Sometimes there are milestones that can leave you feeling untethered to all you knew and create a loss of identity, stability, and shift relationships around you. People in life transitions could be going through empty nest, moving, struggling with aging parents, dealing with family stress, their own health issues, having children shift through various stages, and dealing with relationships shifting around them. Therapy helps organize thinking and emotions around how the shifting ground beneath them is impacting everyone standing on it. I work with people to find security and stability inside themselves and find ways to count on ways to support themselves when chaos (big or small) is creating dissonance.

Creative Types

Creative types, more than most, experience uncertainty about the future, as well as professional (and personal) ups and downs. I enjoy helping creative types realize their resiliency and tap into a sense of internal stability and security, even amid massive change.

Struggles With Emotionally Immature People

When you have ingrained dynamics with family, friends, romantic partners, or colleagues who are not accountable, responsible, assertive, or consistent, it can create a dissonance between your own understanding of yourself and make it hard to trust finding connection with others. I work with clients to help them own their voice and agency in relationship dynamics that can often leave them feeling confused. I work with clients to build more security in themselves and find tools to set and hold appropriate boundaries, so they can flourish.

Career Transitioners

Whether you are between jobs, looking to understand your long-term career plans, or hoping to understand what a career means to you, I can help you discover your values and how to get where you want to go. I utilize various career assessments to explore how you present yourself in interviews and work with you to discover more about your purpose and how it can be integrated into your career goals.