The Many Paths to Wholeness
Individual Therapy
Grounded in evidence. Guided by your whole self.
My approach to individual therapy draws from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT, sometimes called “Dharma-informed” work), and psychodynamic exploration — not as separate toolkits, but as a single, integrated practice. Some sessions will feel structured and skills-focused, building the concrete tools you need to interrupt old patterns. Others will feel slower and more reflective, making space to understand where those patterns came from in the first place. Both are essential. Neither works fully without the other.
In the room, I bring my full self to this work — I am engaged, warm, and unafraid to hold up a mirror when a pattern needs naming. I believe deep change happens through honest relationship, not performance, and I will show up as a real person invested in your growth, not a blank slate. At the same time, I am deeply behavioral in my orientation: insight matters, but insight alone rarely changes a life. We will always be asking not just why, but what now — building the daily practices that turn understanding into lived, sustainable change.
Couples Therapy- Gottman Method
Friendship first. Being right, last.
Grounded in Gottman Method Couples Therapy, my work with couples centers on a simple but often-forgotten truth: the strongest relationships are built on friendship, not victory. Most conflict isn’t really about the dishes, the schedule, or the in-laws — it’s about two people who’ve stopped feeling understood by one another. My work is to help you find your way back.
Together, we’ll rebuild the architecture of trust and intimacy: learning to turn toward each other instead of away, understanding the dreams and fears beneath your conflicts, and replacing the instinct to win an argument with the deeper goal of being known. This isn’t about determining who’s right. It’s about remembering why you chose each other in the first place — and building the skills to keep choosing each other, especially in the moments that are hardest.
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
Facing fear, not managing around it.
For anxiety in its many forms — OCD, panic disorder, and substance use disorder among them — Exposure and Response Prevention is one of the most well-supported, effective treatments available. At its core, ERP is simple: we gently and deliberately face the situations, thoughts, or sensations that anxiety has taught you to avoid, without performing the compulsions or safety behaviors that keep the fear alive. Over time, and always at a pace we build together, your nervous system learns what avoidance never could — that you can tolerate distress, and that it passes.
Woven into this work is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which shifts the goal in a subtle but powerful way: rather than working to reduce distress itself, we work to increase your willingness to experience it in service of the life you actually want to live. Anxiety often shrinks a life long before it’s ever named — ACT keeps your values, not your fear, in the driver’s seat.
As we track progress through exposures, I tailor how we measure distress to how you think. Some clients find it clarifying to rate distress numerically — a familiar 0-to-10 scale that makes progress concrete and trackable session to session. Others connect more naturally with a more abstract or felt sense of their experience — noticing shifts in the body, a metaphor, or simply “more” or “less” without needing a number attached. Neither approach is more rigorous than the other; what matters is using the language that helps you track your own growth most clearly.
ERP is not a blunt instrument. I weave DBT skills — distress tolerance, emotion regulation, mindfulness — directly into this work, so you’re never asked to sit with discomfort without the tools to metabolize it. This integration matters especially for panic and substance use, where the ability to ride out an urge, rather than immediately soothe or escape it, is often the difference between a lapse and lasting change.
Couples Therapy for OCD
When intrusive thoughts become a relationship’s third party.
When one or both partners in a relationship lives with OCD, the disorder rarely stays contained to one person — it shapes the relationship itself. Reassurance-seeking, obsessive rumination shared aloud, and compulsions folded quietly into daily routines can leave both partners exhausted, confused, and unintentionally reinforcing the very cycle they’re trying to escape.
My work with these couples focuses on helping both partners recognize these patterns clearly — not as character flaws or relationship failures, but as symptoms with a name and a treatment path. We build a shared language for identifying reassurance-seeking in the moment, and we work together on how the non-OCD partner can offer genuine support without unintentionally accommodating the compulsions. The goal isn’t for one partner to manage the other’s OCD. It’s for both of you to feel less alone in it — supported, informed, and working as a team against the disorder, rather than around it.