My approach

Beginning therapy takes courage. Choosing to look honestly at your inner world—especially when you are hurting—is a deeply compassionate act toward yourself and the people you care about.

To be impacted by life is part of being human. You may have learned early on that certain feelings were too much or too unsafe to express. In earlier years, you may develop ways of protecting yourself—armor that helps you survive painful experiences, losses, or disappointments. But as life changes, that same armor can begin to weigh us down. What once protected you may now show up as anxiety, exhaustion, depression, health concerns, insomnia, chronic stress, or a sense of feeling disconnected from yourself or others. I offer a skilled, safe, and attuned place to gently set some of that armor down.

Often, people arrive in therapy during moments of disruption: a relationship struggle, a life transition, a health diagnosis, an identity question, or a growing sense that something inside feels stuck or limited. These moments can feel overwhelming, but they can also become invitations to look inward with curiosity and care.

As a systems therapist and clinical social worker, I believe our struggles rarely exist in isolation. The pain you carry may be connected to relationships, cultural expectations, institutions, family history, physical experiences, or even patterns passed through generations. Together, we explore the context and history of your struggles and get to the roots of your pain. Within that exploration, many people discover something surprising – alongside pain, there is often wisdom, resourcefulness, and intuition. The same parts of you that learned how to survive may also hold the seeds for healing.

My approach to therapy is collaborative, human-centered, and informed by modern neuroscience. Our brains and nervous systems are capable of change, adaptation, and transformation. Through new relational experiences, emotional understanding, and mind–body awareness, we can begin to reshape long-standing stress responses and create greater resilience and clarity.

Individual Therapy

I work with adults who want to move beyond simply surviving and begin living with greater clarity, connection, and vitality.

Life experiences such as trauma, chronic stress, health challenges, internalized stigma, or relationship injuries, especially early in life, can gradually disconnect us from our bodies, our emotions, and our sense of belonging with others. In response, many people develop strategies that once helped them adapt—making themselves smaller, hiding their feelings, over-functioning, perfectionism, or people-pleasing.

As human beings, we are incredibly resourceful. We learn ways to prevent future hurts while still maintaining connection as best we can. These protective patterns may help you succeed at work, perform well academically, care for others, or navigate complex environments. But over time, the same strategies that once protected you can begin to feel exhausting or limiting. Perhaps you were not allowed to make mistakes. Perhaps your emotions were treated as too big or invalid. Perhaps parts of your identity or experience had to be tucked away in order to receive care or approval.

In our work, all parts of you are welcome—especially the ones that have felt wounded, isolated, or hidden. Together, we will create space to reconnect with these experiences and tend to the places that still need care, organization, and understanding. I offer a space where these patterns can be explored with care rather than judgment. Therapy becomes a place to gently organize and understand the protective strategies your system developed so that you can explore other ways of getting more of what you need, feeling safe, or setting boundaries. 

I also specialize in chronic pain and illness, with advanced training in Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT). This approach is grounded in the understanding that many forms of persistent pain are neuroplastic—shaped by learned neural pathways rather than ongoing tissue damage. Our work focuses on identifying and shifting these patterns, while also addressing the emotional and relational dynamics that can reinforce them. This is a collaborative, engaged process designed not only to reduce symptoms but to support meaningful change in how you experience your body, regulate stress, and engage in your life.

Couples Therapy

When your relationship feels strained, the disconnection is hard to bear. One of you reaches for conversation and repair, while the other needs space to steady themselves. One moves closer for reassurance, the other pulls back to keep things from escalating. Over time, this can become a familiar and painful cycle—one that leaves you both feeling alone, misunderstood, and unseen.

I utilize Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) to help you slow down, understand your cycle, and begin to name what’s underneath it; often a deep longing to feel close, valued, and truly heard. If you find yourself over-functioning, striving, or pursuing connection, I help you soften, reconnect with your needs, and ask for them more directly. If you tend to withdraw, problem-solve, or go it alone, I can support you in accessing your emotions, letting your partner in, and becoming more open and responsive.

Together, we make sense of how your histories and attachment needs shape the ways you show up with each other, and help you build new ways of relating that feel safe, intimate, and secure. As you begin to find your way back to one another, love can start to feel not just possible, but steady, meaningful, and deeply sustaining.

My Approach

I hold a Master of Social Work from Boston University and a Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College in International and Global Studies. I completed my clinical training at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where I worked in psychosocial oncology, supporting individuals, couples, and families facing serious medical illness. This work profoundly shaped my approach as a therapist. Sitting with people in moments of vulnerability, uncertainty, and loss deepened my understanding of the existential questions that often arise during times of suffering—questions about identity, meaning, purpose, embodiment, and grief. I am comfortable engaging these deeper conversations and believe they are often central to healing.

I am also certified in Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), an evidence-based approach designed to reduce or eliminate neuroplastic pain. This therapy has been shown to help individuals experiencing chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia, sciatica, disc herniation, irritable bowel syndrome, vestibular conditions, and chronic fatigue syndrome.

As a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, I am committed to creating an affirming therapeutic space where queer individuals and couples can explore identity, belonging, relationships, and the unique strengths and questions that emerge from LGBTQIA+ lived experiences.