You may be someone who has spent a great deal of time trying to understand yourself. Perhaps you've been in therapy before, have insight into your patterns, and can recognize why you feel or respond the way you do. Yet something still feels unresolved.

You might find yourself repeating familiar relationship patterns, carrying the effects of difficult experiences, navigating grief or significant life changes, or feeling disconnected from yourself in ways that are difficult to explain.

Sometimes, understanding why we feel a certain way isn't enough to change how we experience ourselves or the world.

Individual psychotherapy can offer space to move beyond insight alone & to explore what remains unresolved, reconnect with yourself, and create meaningful change.

Who I Work With

I provide individual therapy for adults navigating a range of emotional and life experiences, including:

• Anxiety, stress, and burnout: Exploring the underlying patterns contributing to overwhelm, perfectionism, self-criticism, and difficulty finding balance.

• Grief and loss: Making space for the emotional complexities of death, significant loss, anticipatory grief, and the changes that follow.

• Relationships and attachment: Understanding recurring relationship dynamics, emotional needs, boundaries, and patterns of connection or disconnection.

• Spirituality: Integrating spirituality into psychotherapy offers space to explore meaning, purpose, connection, and personal growth in ways that honor your individual beliefs and experiences.

• Life transitions and identity: Navigating changes in relationships, career, family, health, or your understanding of who you are and what matters to you.

• Self-worth and personal growth: Developing greater self-trust, emotional flexibility, authenticity, and a more compassionate relationship with yourself.

• Trauma and PTSD: Processing distressing experiences, unresolved emotional wounds, and patterns that continue to affect your sense of safety and connection.

Many of the people I work with are thoughtful, reflective adults who have developed ways of coping that once served them well but may no longer feel sustainable.

You don't need to be in crisis to benefit from therapy. Sometimes the desire for a more meaningful, connected, and intentional life is reason enough to begin.

My Approach to Therapy

My approach is collaborative, experiential, and trauma-informed. I believe meaningful change often involves more than talking about our experiences or understanding them intellectually.

Together, we explore not only the stories you carry, but also how those experiences may continue to shape your emotions, relationships, nervous system, and sense of self.

I integrate several therapeutic approaches, including:

• EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing): Helping process traumatic or distressing experiences that continue to influence present-day emotions, beliefs, and reactions.

• Internal Family Systems (IFS) and parts work: Exploring the different aspects of yourself, including protective patterns, inner conflicts, and parts that may carry unresolved emotional experiences.

• Somatic and nervous-system-informed therapy: Bringing awareness to how emotions and experiences are held and expressed through the body.

• Attachment-based and psychodynamic approaches: Understanding how earlier experiences and relationships influence present-day patterns.

• Mindfulness and contemplative practices: Supporting greater awareness, emotional presence, self-compassion, and connection to what matters most.

These approaches are not rigid formulas. Our work is shaped by your experiences, needs, and goals, with attention to what feels meaningful and appropriate for you.

Moving Beyond Insight

You may already understand a great deal about yourself.

You might recognize the patterns that emerge in relationships, know where your anxiety comes from, or understand how earlier experiences shaped the way you move through the world.

And yet, knowing these things doesn't always make them easier to change.

Our work can create opportunities to experience yourself differently, rather than simply develop more insight into why things are the way they are.

This may involve processing unresolved experiences, developing a different relationship with difficult emotions, exploring protective patterns, or discovering new ways of responding to yourself and others.

The goal isn't to become a different person. It's to create more freedom, flexibility, and choice in how you experience yourself and your life.

In-Person Therapy in Buffalo & Online Therapy Across New York

I offer individual psychotherapy in person in the Buffalo, New York area, as well as secure online therapy for adults located throughout New York State.

Whether you're seeking trauma therapy, EMDR, support through grief or a life transition, or an opportunity for deeper personal exploration, we can work together to determine an approach that fits your needs.