Services Provided 

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I provide psychotherapy services to children, adolescents, and adults, offering attuned care grounded in compassion, connection, and respect for each person's experiences and needs. ​I believe that meaningful healing takes time and cannot be rushed or forced. Rather than focusing on quick fixes, I approach therapy as a gradual, collaborative process guided by each individual's needs, readiness, and capacity for change. Together, we move at a pace that honors each person's nervous system and stays within their window of tolerance, allowing space for trust, connection, and meaningful change to unfold naturally.​

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*Scroll down to learn more about my approach to working with children, adolescents, and adults, as well as how I support parents and caregivers.

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Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT)

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Play is a child's natural language and a meaningful way for children to express themselves, explore their experiences, and make sense of the world around them. CCPT provides a safe, accepting, and supportive environment where children can communicate through play in ways that may not yet be possible through words alone.​ Rather than directing the child's play, I follow their lead, offering a therapeutic relationship grounded in curiosity, compassion, acceptance, and trust. Through this relationship, children have opportunities to develop greater emotional awareness, self-understanding, confidence, and resilience. While CCPT is my primary approach with children, I integrate additional therapeutic approaches, including sandtray play therapy, bibliotherapy, and somatic approaches, when clinically indicated and developmentally appropriate.​

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Parent Consultation

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I believe that parents and caregivers are essential partners in their child's therapeutic process. Alongside individual play therapy sessions, I work closely with parents and caregivers to provide support, guidance, and opportunities to better understand their child's emotional and developmental needs.​ Parent consultation sessions offer space to explore parenting challenges, strengthen connection, support emotional regulation and co-regulation, and develop practical ways to respond to a child's needs with greater understanding and confidence.​ 

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Family Sessions

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Family involvement can be a meaningful part of the therapeutic process, offering opportunities to strengthen connection, communication, and understanding. When clinically appropriate, I incorporate family sessions while honoring each child’s autonomy, comfort, and developmental needs. As children grow into adolescence, their need for independence, privacy, and choice becomes increasingly important. With adolescents, I approach family involvement thoughtfully and collaboratively, respecting their autonomy, privacy, and right to consent while considering how family participation may support their therapeutic needs and goals.​

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Internal Family Systems (IFS)

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IFS is a compassionate, non-pathologizing therapeutic approach that recognizes the natural complexity of our inner world. IFS offers an opportunity to better understand the parts of ourselves that carry emotional wounds, fears, and protective patterns. Rather than trying to eliminate or change these parts, we approach them with curiosity and compassion, creating space for greater self-understanding and healing. Many clients find that IFS helps them gain insight into longstanding patterns, navigate relational challenges, develop greater self-compassion, and experience more balance and connection within themselves.

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Somatic Approaches​

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Our bodies hold important information about our emotional experiences. Stress, trauma, and protective patterns can show up through physical sensations, tension, movement, and nervous system responses, sometimes in ways we may not consciously recognize.​ In my work with adolescents and adults, I integrate somatic approaches with IFS to gently explore the connection between our inner parts and embodied experiences. Through mindful awareness of sensations, breath, movement, and internal responses, we can begin to recognize how different parts of ourselves communicate through the body and develop a more compassionate relationship with these experiences.