People come to therapy for many reasons — feeling lost or unsure of what you want, living with anxiety, depression, or grief, feeling disconnected from yourself, or repeating patterns that no longer work. Wherever you are, I'll meet you there, with curiosity and kindness.
Most people arrive having already tried to understand their way out. And understanding, it turns out, is rarely enough — the anxiety still won't switch off, the flatness still settles in, the old pattern still runs. That's because so much of what we call symptoms lives below the reach of insight.
Your nervous system runs something like a single energy account, constantly predicting what life will cost and deciding what it can spend. Anxiety is often that system unable to stop spending; the heavier, flatter states are often the same system pulling back to conserve. Neither yields to being pushed harder. What changes things is lowering what it costs to be present — and that begins in a relationship steady enough that your system can finally stop bracing.
How the work works
Not analyzing your way to a solution, but changing the conditions underneath.
We slow down together
I'll help you notice what you might be missing — tension in the body, feelings you're pushing away, the moments you disconnect from yourself, the patterns in what you do and how you do it. We get curious about your process: how you actually experience things as they're happening.
We work with your patterns as they are
I'm not here to fix you or tell you who you should be. The ways you protect yourself were creative adjustments once — intelligent solutions to situations that called for them. We don't fight them. We get curious about them, until they loosen and you can move more flexibly between engagement and rest.
We do it together
We are not built to regulate alone. Much of what heals isn't technique — it's the experience of being met by another steady presence while what's underneath comes into view. As awareness grows, you'll find yourself making choices that feel more genuinely yours, moving toward greater wholeness.
What to expect
Sessions are conversational and grounded in present-moment awareness. We'll talk — but we'll also pause often to notice what's happening in your body and your emotions. You'll discover things about yourself by experiencing them, through your breath, body, and feeling as they happen, not only by talking about them. This work goes best when you're willing to stay curious about your experience, even when it's uncomfortable.
The approach
Three traditions, one way of working.
My work integrates three traditions: Gestalt therapy, contemporary attachment science, and the neuroscience of how emotion is constructed in the body. Gestalt brings present-moment, experiential depth. Attachment science explains why connection is a biological need, not a luxury. The emotional-neuroscience lens explains why the past keeps running the present, and what has to shift for that to change.
I'm a Certified Gestalt Therapist and a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist, dual-licensed in Washington as an LMHC and LMFT, with more than twenty years of practice and a role training other clinicians at the postgraduate level. What that means for you is a particular quality of attention — slowed-down, embodied, unhurried.
Who this is for
Adults across a wide range of moments.
You may be:
living with anxiety that won't quiet, or a flatness and exhaustion that has settled in
moving through grief, a breakup, or the long aftermath of a loss
in a life transition that's unsettled more than you expected
caught in automatic patterns — in relationships, in work, in how you treat yourself — that no longer fit who you want to be
carrying the quieter sense that something needs to shift, even if you can't yet name what
You don't need to arrive with the problem already figured out. The not-knowing is often exactly where we begin.
Begin with a conversation
Start with a conversation.
The clearest way to know whether this is right is to talk. I offer a free 15-minute discovery call — a chance to tell me briefly what's bringing you in, and to ask me anything before you decide.
Anxiety, depression, grief and loss, life transitions, relationship difficulties, and the broader work of feeling more at home in yourself. Many people come not with a single named problem but with a sense that something needs to change.
How is this different from other therapy I've tried?
Much of talk therapy works at the level of insight — understanding why you are the way you are. That has value, but insight alone rarely changes a pattern. My work goes underneath it, to what your nervous system is actually doing, and changes things at that level through present-moment, embodied attention within a steady relationship.
How long does individual therapy take?
It varies. Some people come for a focused stretch around a specific transition; others stay longer for deeper change. I don't believe in indefinite therapy — the aim is for you to carry the security and flexibility forward on your own.
Do you take insurance?
I don't accept insurance directly. Many clients use out-of-network benefits or HSA/FSA funds; I'm glad to provide a superbill you can submit for possible reimbursement.
In Seattle's Leschi neighborhood, at 2719 E Madison St, Suite 300, Seattle, WA 98112 — easily reached from Capitol Hill, Madison Valley, and the Central District.