Services
Individual Therapy
Life can be hard. Period. When it's feeling hard for you, we're here with compassion and solid treatments that can help you find your way. We specialize in two main areas, helping clients with difficult relationships and anxiety.
DIFFICULT RELATIONSHIPS
Maybe you're struggling in the emotionally wild world of dating, maybe you're feeling helpless to change painful patterns in your marriage, or maybe you're navigating a separation or divorce. Wherever you are, we offer a safe space to process what's happening and the tools to move through these challenges with a greater sense of inner peace.
ANXIETY
If you feel blocked by anxiety, like you're always in your head and never just experiencing your life, you are in good company. There is so much to manage in modern life, it's no wonder we worry. Maybe you're feeling worried about something specific, like a major life transition, or maybe it's anything and everything. Whatever it is that's hooking you, the trick is to allow the worry to be present without allowing it to take over...and that's our specialty.
Couples Therapy
You've heard it a million times, "relationships take work," but you didn't expect yours to take THIS much work. If you're feeling stuck, like you and your partner are repeating the same painful dance with each other over and over and over...and over!...again, we can help you change the dance. We are trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, a well-researched and highly effective therapy for couples at all stages. Using this approach we'll help you identify the patterns that are trapping you and learn to reach for each other in new ways that lead to more connection and peace between you.
Approach to Therapy
In therapy, we focus on providing proven treatments in an approachable and welcoming space. We primarily use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT for short) and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT for short). Both models are backed by years of scientific research and, most importantly...they work!
ACT is based on two main principles: Acceptance of our experience and Commitment to our values. Using ACT, we’ll work together to identify what matters most to you (your values). Next, we’ll work on understanding the thoughts and feelings that can make it hard to act in line with those values: Ever felt nervous about meeting someone new and canceled plans even though relationships are important to you? Or zoned out to TV rather than going on a walk even though you feel best when you’re in nature? Us too. These experiences are so common because we humans love to avoid uncomfortable feelings. Of course we do! But sometimes that avoidance limits us. We'll work together to make space for all thoughts and feelings...yes even those nasty uncomfortable ones...without letting them control you, so you can create a life you love.
EFT is based on Attachment Theory, which is all about our core need for connection with others. Using EFT, we'll work to understand the difficult feelings that come up in your relationships and how they may lead to behaviors that actually keep you more disconnected in the long run: Ever gotten angry and critical with your partner when you actually needed more closeness from them? Or felt unaccepted by someone and withdrawn from them in order to protect yourself? These behaviors are SO common and make a lot of emotional sense. Unfortunately, they send a threatening message to the other person, which makes the closeness we need more difficult to get. When this happens over and over again, we get stuck in patterns that can leave us feeling trapped. In EFT, we work to understand and break these cycles so we can reach for others in new ways that encourage the closeness we all need.