How I Work
My work is grounded in thoughtful, depth-oriented psychotherapy. At its core, this is relational work — attunement, collaborative exploration, and clinical discernment about what is actually driving what you’re experiencing.
When appropriate, I integrate Brainspotting, EMDR, and parts work to address symptoms that are not shifting through talk therapy alone. These approaches allow us to work directly with how emotional experiences are stored and carried in the nervous system.
There is no fixed formula. Some sessions are conversational and exploratory. Others are more structured and focused. What we use depends on what you’re navigating, how you’re responding, and what will be most effective at that point in the work.
What remains consistent is the aim: not just managing symptoms, but shifting how you relate to yourself, your emotional responses, and your patterns in relationships at a foundational level.
Brainspotting
A brain-body approach for processing what is felt more than it is understood.
Brainspotting works by locating a visual point that corresponds to where an experience is held in your body — allowing the brain’s natural processing capacity to re-engage after it has been interrupted by overwhelming or traumatic experiences. It can be especially helpful when emotions are not accessible through words or logic alone — when your body continues to react even after something makes sense intellectually, or when past experiences shape your present responses in ways that feel automatic or intrusive.
EMDR
An evidence-based approach for reprocessing memories that continue to influence your present.
EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to help the brain reprocess specific experiences that remain unresolved — memories that still trigger strong reactions, patterns of anxiety linked to earlier events, or moments that feel disproportionately activated when you recall them. Unlike ongoing exploratory talk therapy, EMDR is more structured and focused, targeting particular experiences so they can be integrated rather than repeatedly reactivated. It is one of the most extensively researched trauma treatments available and is used thoughtfully when it makes sense in the context of your history and your goals for therapy.
Parts Work
A framework for understanding internal conflict, self-criticism, and protective patterns.
Parts work recognizes that we all carry different internal responses — the part that wants to move forward and the part that pulls back, the inner critic, the part that shuts down under stress — not as flaws to eliminate, but as protective strategies that once helped you manage overwhelming experiences earlier in your life. By working with these parts rather than against them, we reduce internal conflict and create greater steadiness and flexibility in how you relate to yourself and respond in relationships.
Therapy Intensives
For women seeking a concentrated format, I offer 10-hour Brainspotting therapy intensives. This structured option allows focused work within a dedicated block of time.
These approaches are used together — and alongside ongoing talk therapy — rather than in isolation.
In practice, Brainspotting, EMDR, and parts work frequently complement one another within the broader context of our work together. A session might draw on Brainspotting to understand what is being activated and then use parts work or EMDR to process it more directly. The approach is guided by what you are experiencing and what is clinically appropriate — not by a fixed protocol.
If you’re curious about whether this approach is the right fit to your specific situation, the consultation is the place to explore that together.