You’ve come to this place where doing the same thing is painful, unrewarding, problematic, overwhelming, aggravating, lonely, numbing, isolating, draining, or any combination. There is an unsettledness. You might be clear on what needs to change. You might have no idea. Or be full of too many options to choose. Maybe some said you should talk with someone. Maybe your own stirrings have kept you up at night. Maybe your body and circumstances are saying that things aren’t working. Perhaps on the surface, your life is fine, but you can’t make sense of the disconnect you feel between your dreams and your reality. You also might entirely minimize the amount of pain you experience until it gets bad. 

 

The hopeful thing? This is a place. It’s not permanent. It’s not definitive. It can shift. 

 

As they say, it gets better. But sometimes that doesn’t happen just with the passage of time.

 

Many say therapy is hard work. But you’re probably already good at working hard. 

 

Through honest gentle work, together we can bring immediate shifts into your life. Change can happen incrementally or on a grand scale. Or over time. I’ve seen change happen. I’ve experienced it myself. It can get better. Even if you need to borrow others’ hope. How does change work? By having someone in your corner who can guide, reflect, remind, explore, and listen. To be a witness to your one wild and precious life.

 

The ideal client? The one who is both annoyed by the question and whose perfectionism wants to please someone. I don’t believe in the ideal client. Sometimes I’m here to help you to the next person, or for a longer bit down the road. It matters to me that you find who is best for you at the time, so don’t try to fit yourself into someone’s ideal. I believe you can find multiple avenues of healing to be successful. Psychotherapy is just one. I am also very mindful of how hard it is to find a therapist and will work with you to find what works.