People come to therapy for all kinds of reasons, and you don’t need a diagnosis or a perfectly articulated problem to have a good one.

I often work with concerns related to relationships, anxiety, identity, self-worth, body image, family dynamics, boundaries, grief, and major life transitions. Sometimes there’s a pattern you keep finding yourself in. Sometimes you know exactly what isn’t working. And sometimes your life looks perfectly reasonable from the outside, but something about it doesn’t feel right anymore.

We can start wherever you are.

My approach is relational and informed by relational-cultural, psychodynamic, and solution-focused theories. In less academic language: I’m interested in how your experiences and relationships have shaped the way you understand yourself, other people, and what you expect from both. I’m also interested in where you want to go from here.

That doesn’t mean we spend every session excavating your childhood. Understanding where a pattern came from can be incredibly useful, but insight is only part of the work. Eventually, we also have to decide what you want to do with that understanding, what may already be working, and what could help you move toward something different.

I also draw from approaches like CBT and ACT when practical tools, new ways of thinking, or behavioral changes would be useful.

I don’t believe one theory has all the answers. People are considerably less tidy than that.

I work with individual adults, adolescents, and couples, and especially enjoy working with people navigating relationships, identity, anxiety, life transitions, and the complicated space between knowing something intellectually and actually being able to live differently.

With couples, I’m interested in the patterns that develop between two people: how you communicate, where you get stuck, what happens underneath conflict, and how each person’s history and expectations shape the relationship you’re building together.

I currently provide therapy virtually to clients throughout Texas as a graduate counseling intern under supervision.

That’s completely fine. You do not need to arrive at therapy with a thesis statement.

Maybe something feels off. Maybe the same problem keeps showing up in different forms. Maybe someone you trust suggested therapy and, annoyingly, they might have a point. Or maybe you’re doing reasonably well and still find yourself wondering whether life could feel different than it does now.

Part of the work can be figuring out what the work actually is.