My Approach

I have been in private practice for more than 20 years, specializing in helping individuals resolve historic trauma and supporting women as they navigate the complexities of womanhood in a fast-paced, demanding world. 

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My approach has been shaped by a diverse career. In addition to maintaining my private practice, I have worked in adolescent residential treatment, served as an FBI consultant, testified as an expert witness, and taught at the graduate level. In recent years, I have also been sought out as a corporate consultant and speaker, helping high-intensity professionals understand how negative experiences and unresolved trauma influence leadership, relationships, and performance. This work has evolved into multi-day, in-person therapeutic intensives designed for clients seeking deep and meaningful change within a highly focused period of time. 

 

At the heart of all my work is the understanding that our most significant experiences—whether major events or the messages we internalized long ago—shape how we move through the world. Human beings are brilliantly adaptive. Many of the beliefs we developed to survive and succeed have helped us become accomplished, capable, and impressive people. Yet those same "type A" beliefs can quietly limit our happiness and leave us feeling lopsided in our satisfaction with life.  Many of the people who seek me out have reached a point where old beliefs about who they need to be or how they should function no longer fit. These deeply rooted patterns cannot be undone through podcasts or inspirational Instagram posts alone. They deserve to be understood from every angle, honored for the purpose they once served, and then allowed to rest so that we can fully engage with the reality of our lives today.I have tremendous faith in my clients and in their intrinsic wisdom.

 

Therapy does not have to last forever—in fact, I don't believe it should. Meaningful treatment can occur within a specific season of life and be revisited years later when something important emerges. I have maintained relationships with many clients for decades, often reconnecting seamlessly after years apart when life calls for deeper reflection.

 

My style is active, engaged, and challenging. I don't tend to sit silently. My work blends traditional psychotherapy with coaching modalities, and I am constantly seeking new knowledge from disciplines such as biology, neuroscience, and animal behavior. My goal is to leverage more than two decades of clinical experience to help clients move effectively and efficiently toward meaningful change.  I consider this work an art—one informed by thousands of client experiences and the evolving science of how humans heal, adapt, and grow.  The complexity, resilience, and often-unrecognized magnificence I see in my clients never cease to inspire me. Anyone willing to do hard work is already a gift to this world.

 

I've grown bored with many things in my life.

This work?

 

Never.