welcome.

Our early experiences are incredibly formative to our lives, and when those experiences and relationships have been painful they can often leave marks on us that follow us into the present. Working through the pain and impact of those experiences helps us see the strategies we adapted to survive, along with how sometimes those same strategies can keep us stuck in painful patterns.

Having a child brings with it wonderful and expansive experiences, while also bringing experiences that can stretch us beyond what we believe we can handle. There are the challenging moments involved in raising a child, as well as the ways that having children can bring our childhood injuries to the surface. One of the best ways we can support our children is to do our own work and to manage our own triggers, traumas, and emotions. I love to walk with parents through their own stories in order to become more free to be the parent they want to be.

Faith and spirituality are a powerful element of human life. Just like anything that is so core to our self and identity, it can be a source of suffering and distress. That can be the experience of distance and silence in a relationship that you believe should feel close, questions that feel frightening or shameful, or changes that seem to be happening within yourself. Of course, we also know that people in places of authority and communities can also hurt us, leading to feelings of rejection, self-loathing, exclusion, shame, confusion, isolation, and more.

Many people that I work with have tried therapy before. They have had these thoughts, feelings, and experiences for most of their lives. Other therapies they've tried may have felt like they only addressed surface-level issues and never really got to where they really wanted to go. I work from a depth perspective and am not interested in shallow quick fixes. I want to get into the places that, while uncomfortable, also hold more hope of freedom and lasting change.

Anxiety and depression, while being chemically expressed in our bodies, are often signals that something in our life or psyche is needing to change. Most people just want the symptoms gone, and understandably want relief from the racing thoughts, the heaviness, the nights we can't sleep. Yet from a depth perspective these experiences are also important information for us, pointing toward something in us that has gone unheard or unmet for a long time. Rather than only quieting the symptoms, I want to listen with you to what they might be carrying, and to find, underneath them, a way of living that feels more free and flourishing.

Pain can be located in lots of different areas of life, but sometimes it is most felt in our relationships with others. Sometimes even though we desperately want to be close to someone we fear that they might leave us, and we might act in ways we regret when we get scared. Maybe a part of us wants to be close, but another part feels overwhelmed and suffocated by that same closeness once we get it. Some of us will say to ourselves that we have never felt close to anyone, or can't think of anyone that hasn't betrayed us. These (and more) are the kinds of relational patterns that can be worked through in therapy.

Leadership can be deeply meaningful and deeply isolating, often at the same time. The people we lead see the role, but rarely the private weight of it: the pressure to always have an answer, the quiet fear of being found out, the loneliness of carrying what can't be shared. Sometimes the very strengths that brought us here begin to cost us, and the ways we've learned to perform or hold it all together leave little room for our own inner life. I love to walk with leaders who want a place to set the role down for a while and tend to the person underneath it.

The struggles above are only some of the places pain shows up, and you may not find your own experience named among them. That's alright. I don't work from a manual of techniques matched to particular problems; I work from a depth perspective that pays attention to what lies beneath whatever brings you in. Because of that, I'm able to walk with people through a wide range of concerns in a way that goes past the surface toward something deeper and more lasting. If something in how I work resonates with you, I'd welcome the chance to talk, whatever it is you're carrying.