How I Work

Therapy with me is steady, human, and conversational. We sit together and talk about what is happening in your life right now and how it actually feels, not how it “should” feel.

Often we begin with something simple: how you have been since we last met, what has been on your mind, or what feels hard today. We follow that thread. I’ll ask questions. I might be interested in the moments where your voice catches, where you go blank, where you laugh something off, or where you suddenly feel tearful or angry and don’t know why.

Silence sometimes happens too. We don’t rush to fill it. It can be strangely helpful: things surface when they’re not being pushed.

I will share what I notice, gently and directly. For example: “Something tightened just then, when you talked about your dad” or “It sounds like part of you seems furious and part of you wants to bolt.” We stay with those places rather than stepping over them. You don’t have to explain yourself perfectly; we work it out together in real time.

Some sessions feel emotional, some practical, some messy, some light. All of that is normal. You don’t need to arrive “with a clear agenda” or knowing what to say. If all you can manage is “I don’t know where to start”, we start there.

You can expect me to be warm, honest, occasionally irreverent, and not easily shocked. I won’t sit in blank silence, but I also won’t fix, coach, or advise from a distance. The work is us paying close attention, together, to your inner world and how you relate to yourself and others.

Over time, people often say the room feels like somewhere they can finally stop performing. Things that have been carried alone for years get spoken out loud. That can be relieving, unsettling, grief-tinged, sometimes all at once. We go at a pace that is bearable.