How I can help.
Most of the work I do clusters in a handful of areas. Pick the one that fits, or reach out and we'll figure out together what makes sense.
Anxiety & Depression
Practical tools and patient work on the patterns that fuel recurring worry, low moods, and the inner critic that keeps the spiral going.
Relationship Issues
Communication, conflict, trust, and the dynamics that strain the connections you most want to protect — including parenting, family, and friendship strain.
Grief & Life Transitions
Loss, change, and the in-between seasons. Space to actually feel what you're carrying, and tools for moving forward without rushing past it.
Trauma & EMDR
Care for recent wounds and old ones. EMDR is my primary trauma approach — research-backed, structured, and doesn't require reliving every detail.
Christian Counseling
For clients who want their faith integrated into the room. Drawing on 30 years in Christian ministry — but never required.
Teens & Young Adults
A meaningful part of my practice — anxiety, identity, family dynamics, school pressure, and the work of growing up.
Relationship Issues
Most people don't come to therapy because everything in their relationships is fine. They come because something feels stuck — a pattern that keeps repeating, a conflict that doesn't resolve, a sense that they're talking past someone they love. I help clients work through the parts of relationship that take real effort: communication breakdowns, trust ruptures, family-of-origin patterns showing up in adult life, parenting strain, the slow distance that builds up over years.
I don't do couples counseling — this is individual work. But a lot of what changes in individual therapy ends up changing the relationships around you, because you're showing up to them differently.
Common reasons clients reach out:
- Recurring conflict that never quite resolves
- Trouble with communication or feeling heard
- Trust that's been broken — and what to do about it
- Family-of-origin patterns showing up in adult relationships
- Parenting strain or co-parenting after separation
- Friendship loss, drift, or rupture
- Setting boundaries with people who don't take them well
Grief & Life Transitions
Grief doesn't only follow death. It follows divorce, illness, a job ending, an empty nest, a friendship that quietly falls apart. It follows the version of life you thought you'd be living by now. A lot of people don't reach out because they don't think their loss is "big enough" — and then they end up carrying it alone for years.
The work isn't to push through grief on a timeline. It's to make room for what you're actually carrying, find language for it, and slowly figure out how to keep moving without pretending the loss didn't happen. The same is true of major transitions — even good ones. Becoming a parent, retiring, moving, leaving a faith community: change like that is its own kind of grief, and it deserves real attention.
Common reasons clients reach out:
- Death of a parent, partner, child, or close friend
- Divorce, separation, or the end of a long relationship
- Health crisis — your own, or a loved one's
- Career change, retirement, or job loss
- Empty-nest, becoming a parent, or other family transitions
- Faith deconstruction or leaving a community
- Grief that has lingered or feels stuck
How we work together.
Direct, but unhurried.
I'm not interested in running clients through a formula. The first session is mostly me listening and asking questions — what's going on, what you've already tried, what you're hoping for. From there we build something that fits the actual problem, not a one-size-fits-all protocol.
Evidence-based, when it fits.
EMDR is my primary tool for trauma — it's one of the most thoroughly researched therapies in the field. For anxiety, depression, and the patterns of thought that keep them in place, I draw on cognitive and behavioral approaches. I match the method to the work in front of us.
Faith, if you want it.
I bring 30 years of Christian ministry experience to the room when clients want it. For clients who don't, that's not in the room — and it's never a condition of working together.
Sustainable pace.
I don't think therapy needs to take forever, but I also won't rush a process that needs time. Most clients come weekly or every other week, and we adjust as the work evolves.
What it costs.
A superbill is available for out-of-network reimbursement. Payment also accepted via major cards, HSA/FSA, cash, PayPal, Venmo, and Zelle. Full fee & insurance details →
Not sure which fits?
If you're not sure which of these is the right starting place — or if what you're carrying doesn't fit neatly into one — reach out. The free consultation is a no-pressure conversation to see if I'm the right fit before scheduling a full session.