Therapy should fit the person — not the other way around.
I don't begin therapy by deciding what technique you need.
I begin by getting to know you.
What brought you here? What matters to you? What keeps showing up in your life? What have you already tried? And perhaps most importantly — what would make our time together feel useful?
My approach is collaborative and flexible. I draw from years of experience and different therapeutic approaches, but I don't believe therapy should feel like following a manual. What we do together should grow out of who you are and what you need.
We start with the relationship.
Meaningful therapy begins with feeling understood. Before techniques, strategies, or goals can be useful, there needs to be enough trust to talk honestly — including about things that may be difficult, confusing, or unfinished.
You lead. I participate.
You know your life better than anyone. My role isn't to tell you how to live it. I'll listen closely, ask questions, notice patterns, offer perspective, and sometimes challenge you — but we'll decide together where the conversation needs to go.
We use what helps.
My work is informed by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), along with cognitive, behavioral, and insight-oriented approaches developed over more than three decades of practice. But therapy isn't about fitting you into a particular model. We use ideas and approaches when they're useful and leave them aside when they're not.
Sometimes the unexpected matters most.
Not every meaningful therapy session follows an agenda. Sometimes something emerges in conversation that neither of us expected — a connection, a memory, a realization, or simply a different way of seeing something familiar. I believe therapy needs enough room for those moments to happen.
There isn't one right way to do therapy.
Some people come wanting practical strategies. Others need a place to understand something they've carried for years. Often it's a little of both.
We can figure out what you need together.