Working together

As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, I work with adult individuals, couples, and teens who are navigating anxiety, depression, grief, and the lingering effects of trauma. Many of the people I work with feel stuck in patterns that once made sense but no longer serve them, or find themselves carrying emotional weight that didn’t begin with them.

My work is integrative and relational, drawing from attachment-based, psychodynamic, somatic, and trauma-informed approaches. I pay close attention to the emotional, relational, and nervous-system patterns that shape how people experience themselves and their relationships, especially under stress. I don’t believe change happens through insight alone. While understanding the past matters, our work also focuses on how patterns show up in real time—emotionally, physically, and relationally—and how to gently interrupt them. Sessions often involve slowing down, tracking internal experience, and working directly with moments of disconnection, overwhelm, or stuckness as they arise.

I bring a balance of depth and practicality to the work. Alongside exploration and emotional processing, I offer structure, language, and concrete tools when helpful. My approach is collaborative and tailored, adapting to each client’s needs, capacities, and stage of life rather than following a rigid model. Overall, I aim to create a space that is emotionally safe, thoughtful, and engaged—where insight, embodiment, and relational repair come together to support meaningful and lasting change.

Couples Therapy

So many couples come to therapy feeling like they’ve lost the thread between them. Words get sharper, silence stretches longer, and something once tender now feels tense or unreachable. Using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and somatic principles, I help couples slow the cycle and rediscover the longing beneath the conflict. If you're healing from betrayal, or feeling the rawness of disconnection, our work will offer a path not just toward staying together, but toward finding each other again. We make space for grief, for honest accountability, for the possibility of new safety. You don’t need to do this alone, or perfectly. You just need to be willing to turn toward each other, with help.

After the Affair and Betrayal Trauma

Betrayal can shake the ground of any relationship, leaving one or both partners feeling unsafe, overwhelmed, and unsure of what is real anymore. After an affair, couples often find themselves caught between intense emotion and emotional distance, wanting repair but afraid of causing more harm.

I work with betrayal trauma in a slow, trauma-informed, and deeply relational way. Using attachment-based and somatic approaches, I help couples stabilize, make sense of what happened, and begin rebuilding trust through real emotional experiences—not pressure, timelines, or forced forgiveness. Healing is about honoring what was lost while creating a more honest, emotionally responsive way of relating, whether partners stay together or separate with clarity and care.

Co-parenting after Divorce: Protecting the Children, Honoring the Transition

Divorce changes the shape of a family, but it doesn’t end the need for stability, safety, and respectful connection—especially for the children. Co-parenting therapy offers a grounded space to work through the grief, power struggles, and communication breakdowns that can make post-divorce parenting feel overwhelming or combative. I help parents identify shared values, clarify boundaries, and develop systems that protect the children from being caught in the middle. We work toward reducing emotional reactivity, increasing consistency, and creating a parallel parenting rhythm that honors the children’s needs above all. This is not about being perfect—it’s about staying present, steady, and intentional as you navigate this next chapter.

Individual therapy

You may be the one who’s always kept it together. The one people turn to, who manages, who anticipates, who senses the shift in someone’s tone before they even speak. But somewhereinside, you’re tired. Or anxious. Or just numb. My work with individuals is rooted in psychodynamic and somatic therapy—approaches that understand that your nervous system remembers everything your mind was taught to forget. Together, we create a space where younger parts of you feel safe enough to stop performing and start being. Where your body can begin to rest. Where you no longer have to earn your right to exhale. You get to unhook from who you were taught to be—and become more fully who you are.

Intergenerational Trauma & First-Generation Identity

Some burdens aren't just yours—they were passed down quietly, through stories never told, glances that lasted a beat too long, fear that was never named. I work with many first-generation clients, including children of refugees and survivors, who carry emotional legacies wrapped in silence. As the child of a Holocaust survivor, I know what it’s like to grow up in a household where the past hovers in every room, even if no one speaks of it. Our work honors what your parents and grandparents lived through, while freeing you from having to live in it. We explore where loyalty meets longing—so you can carry forward what matters, and release what never should have been yours to hold.

Healing attachment and relationships

Many of us want closeness and connection, yet find ourselves feeling anxious, shut down, or unsure of how to stay in relationship when things become vulnerable or emotionally charged. These struggles are often rooted in early attachment experiences that shaped how we learned to connect, protect ourselves, and make sense of intimacy.

Attachment wounds can show up as fear of abandonment, difficulty trusting, losing oneself in relationships, or pulling away when closeness begins to matter. These patterns are not flaws or failures—they are intelligent adaptations that once helped you survive. Therapy offers a space to slow these patterns down with curiosity and compassion, rather than judgment.

Our work focuses on creating a felt sense of safety in relationship—within therapy and, over time, beyond it. By attending to both emotional experience and nervous system responses, new possibilities emerge: greater self-trust, clearer boundaries, more flexibility, and the ability to stay connected to yourself while being close to others. The goal is not perfect relationships, but relationships that feel more honest, grounded, and alive.