Depression can feel like a heavy weight has settled on top of you, keeping everything about you pushed down.

Anxiety is the opposite, where nothing settles down. Fear, nervousness, and panic run you ragged.

But you can find relief.

My approach suggests that both depression and anxiety are our body’s strategies to avoid other pain.

But when we can get in touch with we’re avoiding and learn to feel that in a safe way, depression and anxiety lift, and we can move forward.

When past painful memories or feelings suddenly show up in the present it can feel confusing, disorienting, and scary. If this happens a lot, life can become unmanageable. These experiences are sometimes indications of past unresolved trauma. This means that at one point something happened that was too overwhelming to feel so your brain pushed it aside to help you keep going. And yet at the same time your body wants to heal and so it brings this pain back up to try and heal. But if we don’t know what to do, it can just feel bad all over again. I help people resolve and heal past pain so they can stop these intrusive experiences and feel like the past is finally over.

We all enjoy what we enjoy, but when we end up using our pleasures to try and escape stress or pain, our pleasures can become a prison of craving and obsession. Compulsively thinking about when we can indulge next, while perhaps at the same time knowing we’re only digging ourselves deeper. I help people free themselves from their addiction-prisons. When we understand how the addiction is actually medicine for an underlying issue, we can focus on what’s driving the addiction and resolve it at its source.

When our relationships are struggling everything feels like a struggle. And when those struggles are part of a larger pattern, hope is hard to hold.

But you can find your way out.

I help people see their patterns clearly so they can see their choices clearly as well, looking at questions such as, how do we stay out of reactivity and find our compassion.