My foremost goal is to align with the goals you bring to the table. What follows is how I think about the work, and the concerns people most often bring me.
Trauma is not only what happened. It is what your mind and body had to do in order to survive it, and what those adaptations cost you now. We work at a pace that respects your nervous system, building enough steadiness first so that remembering does not mean reliving.
Depression is often described as sadness, but the people I see more often describe absence: of energy, of interest, of a sense that anything will change. We look underneath it, at the losses and the anger and the beliefs about yourself that keep it in place.
Anxiety is usually intelligent. It is protecting you from something, even when its methods have become intolerable. We work on both fronts at once: practical relief from the symptoms, and a real understanding of what your anxiety has been guarding.
As a marriage and family therapist, I pay close attention to patterns between people. The way you learned to attach, to fight, to apologize, and to ask for what you need was learned somewhere. It can be understood, and it can change.
Many people arrive fluent in their own failings and speechless about their worth. Therapy can be the first place where the harsh internal voice is named rather than obeyed, and where being ordinary and human stops feeling like a verdict.
I respect all dimensions of who you are, including matters of spirituality. Whether faith is central to your life, something you are wrestling with, or not part of your framework at all, it is yours to bring in or leave out.
Psychodynamic simply means we take seriously that a great deal of what drives us is not immediately visible to us. Old patterns, unfinished feelings, and the parts of a story that never got told still shape the present.
But depth on its own is not always what someone needs on a given Tuesday. Sometimes you need a skill, a plan, information, or relief. So I draw from several traditions and use whichever genuinely serves the goal you named.
The method should fit the person. Never the reverse.
Fit matters more than credentials. If what you need is outside what I can offer, or another clinician would serve you better, I will tell you plainly and help you find a good referral. That is part of the work, not a failure of it.
I see individual adults. For anything requiring a higher level of care, such as active crisis, detox, or inpatient treatment, I will help you get connected to the right resource.
We can start with a short conversation about what you are looking for and whether I am the right person for it.