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
Loss that hasn't had space to be felt — including the kinds people don't think 'count.' Time to actually feel what you're carrying, and a way to keep moving 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 — including the work of discovering who you are in Christ. Drawing on 30 years in Christian ministry.
Life Transitions
Major change — even the good kind. Becoming a parent, retiring, moving, leaving a faith community: transitions deserve real attention, not white-knuckling through and hoping it lands.
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, betrayal and 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
- Betrayal or 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
Grief doesn't only follow death. It follows divorce, illness, a friendship that quietly falls apart, 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.
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
- Friendship loss, drift, or rupture
- Grief that has lingered or feels stuck
- A loss you're not sure is "big enough" to bring in
Life Transitions
Major change — even the good kind — is its own kind of grief. Becoming a parent, retiring, moving, leaving a faith community: a transition like that reshapes your sense of who you are, and it deserves real attention rather than "push through and you'll be fine."
Some transitions are the ones you chose. Others are the ones that happened to you. Either way, the work is the same: making room for what's actually changing, finding language for the version of you that's emerging, and not pretending the old chapter didn't matter.
Common reasons clients reach out:
- Career change, retirement, or job loss
- Empty-nest, becoming a parent, or other family transitions
- Faith deconstruction or leaving a community
- A move, returning to school, or a season that won't end
- Identity shifts — who you're becoming in a new chapter
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.