Emotions are complicated. We can be fine one minute, and a wreck the next. Whether you can’t stop yelling at your loved ones, you keep breaking down at work or in class, or you’re constantly feeling on edge, I help people learn to feel their emotions without getting overwhelmed by them.

It’s one thing to space out every once in a while. It’s another to constantly feel like a zombie, watching everyone else seem to enjoy their lives while you can’t seem to feel anything. I help people figure out what’s causing their emotional disconnection so they can find their feelings and start living again.

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.

Being anxious or nervous can feel terrible. But being this way most of the time can feel debilitating and hopeless. We try to tell ourselves to just relax, that everything’s okay, but it doesn’t seem to touch our body’s experience. Whether you experience a rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, persistent sweating, uncontrollable shaking, racing thoughts, dizziness, spacey-ness, or all of the above, I help people learn to work with their body’s experience, so you can actually calm down and feel grounded again.  

Relationships are challenging. But when it feels like all you experience are challenges, or the same challenges over and over again, it’s easy to ask yourself, “What’s the point?” We want to make things better, but we often don’t know what to do. Whether you keep finding yourself in relationships that don’t work or stuck in the same issue(s) with your current relationship, I help people learn to work with their relationship challenges differently so they can enjoy their relationship and also feel competent as challenges arise.

Who am I? It’s perhaps the question that everyone asks themselves at one point or another. But when you don’t have an answer or the answer doesn’t match who you or others think you should be, it can feel frustrating, confusing, and even depressing. How do we know who we are? Or, perhaps more importantly, how do we give ourselves permission to be who we are when that means risking rejection. I help people learn to connect with their own honesty and truth so they can discover who they are and who they want to be at their own pace.