Services
I offer specialized therapy services tailored to meet your unique needs and goals. Each session is conducted in a safe, confidential, and supportive environment.
Individual Therapy
Individual therapy offers a private, supportive space where you can slow down and turn toward your inner world with curiosity and compassion. Through the lens of Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), therapy focuses on understanding how your experiences shape the way you see yourself, relate to others, and respond to stress.
EFIT is grounded in the idea that emotions are not problems to eliminate, but powerful guides to what matters most. When you feel overwhelmed, shut down, anxious, or reactive, it often reflects deeper attachment needs—such as the need for safety, connection, acceptance, or reassurance. In therapy, you learn to identify and make sense of these deeper emotions, rather than getting stuck in surface reactions like anger, withdrawal, or self-criticism.
People begin therapy for many reasons:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Trauma
- Grief and loss
- Life transitions (career changes, relocation, retirement)
- Self-esteem and identity issues
- Stress management
- Personal growth and self-discovery
EFIT helps you gently explore these experiences, understand the emotional patterns underneath them, and reshape the way you respond.
Through this process, individual therapy can help you:
- Access and process core emotions in a safe, supported way
- Understand attachment patterns and relationship triggers
- Reduce anxiety, depression, and emotional reactivity
- Develop a more secure, compassionate relationship with yourself and others
- Strengthen your capacity for connection and vulnerability
- Create new, empowering emotional experiences
Beginning therapy is not a sign of weakness—it's an act of courage. Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy helps you move from feeling stuck or overwhelmed to feeling grounded, connected, and more secure in yourself and your relationships.
Session Length: 45-50 minutes
Format: In-person or virtual
Frequency: Typically weekly, adjusted as needed
Couples Therapy
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) is a structured, research-based approach that helps couples move out of painful cycles of conflict and into deeper connection and emotional safety. Rather than focusing only on communication skills or problem-solving, EFCT looks at the underlying emotional and attachment needs that drive conflict.
When couples feel stuck—arguing about the same issues, withdrawing from one another, or feeling misunderstood—there is often a deeper pattern at play. One partner may pursue, protest, or criticize in an effort to feel heard and reassured, while the other may shut down or pull away to avoid feeling overwhelmed or inadequate. EFCT helps couples recognize this negative cycle as the "common enemy," rather than seeing each other as the problem.
In EFCT couples therapy, partners learn to:
- Identify and de-escalate reactive conflict patterns
- Access and share deeper, more vulnerable emotions
- Express attachment needs clearly and safely
- Respond to each other with empathy and reassurance
- Rebuild trust after disconnection or betrayal
- Strengthen emotional and physical intimacy
The goal of EFCT is to create a secure emotional bond—where both partners feel seen, valued, and emotionally safe with one another. As couples experience new moments of openness and responsiveness in session, they begin to reshape their relationship into one marked by greater trust, closeness, and resilience. EFCT couples therapy offers hope not by teaching couples to avoid conflict, but by helping them understand and transform it—turning moments of distress into opportunities for deeper connection.
Session Length: 45-50 minutes
Format: In-person or virtual
Frequency: Typically weekly or bi-weekly
Family Therapy
Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) is a compassionate, attachment-based approach that helps families strengthen connection, repair trust, and support one another through emotional challenges. Grounded in the understanding that emotions organize our relationships, EFFT helps family members move out of reactive patterns—such as conflict, avoidance, or power struggles—and into more secure, responsive bonds.
Families often seek therapy during times of stress: a child or teen struggling with anxiety, depression, behavioral concerns, or the impact of trauma; major life transitions; or ongoing communication breakdowns. In these moments, even loving families can feel overwhelmed, unsure how to help, or caught in cycles of frustration and withdrawal. EFFT helps caregivers and family members better understand the emotions driving these struggles and respond in ways that foster safety and connection.
Issues I Help Families Navigate:
- Parent-child conflicts
- Sibling rivalry
- Blended family adjustments
- Divorce or separation impacts
- Behavioral concerns in children/teens
- Grief and loss affecting the family
- Major life transitions (moves, new schools, etc.)
- Communication breakdowns
In Emotion Focused Family Therapy, families learn to:
- De-escalate intense emotional interactions
- Identify and respond to underlying attachment needs
- Strengthen caregivers' confidence and effectiveness
- Repair relational injuries and rebuild trust
- Support children and teens in processing difficult emotions
- Create a more secure, emotionally safe family environment
A central goal of EFFT is to empower caregivers as key agents of change, helping them respond to distress with clarity, compassion, and confidence. As family members experience new moments of understanding and emotional responsiveness, relationships begin to shift—creating greater resilience, closeness, and hope for the future.
Session Length: 45-50 minutes
Format: In-person preferred (virtual available)
Frequency: Varies based on family needs
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