Clients often describe my approach as warm, gentle and compassionate, with an informed perspective on trauma survivorship. In conjunction with these qualities, I aim for a paced, collaborative, and adaptive therapeutic process. To best tailor our work, I highly value your real-time feedback and input on what consistency and adjustments you might need along the way. While a large part of my role is to bring a clinically-focused lens through which to better understand your experiences, I equally strive to prioritize humanness, safety, and transparency in how we discuss them.

I most frequently use a blend of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Additionally, I integrate components of attachment theory, trauma-focused psychodynamic therapy, as well as psychoanalysis. Using these approaches, we will work to cultivate a more organized, grounded, and alive connection to yourself and the world around you.

I continue to experience the joy of meeting, learning from, and working with clients from a rich variety of culture and background. I am regularly working with those who are seeking relief and recovery from the impact of intensely challenging relationships (personal or professional), intimate partner violence and other traumatic experiences, loss and grief, as well as navigating life transitions where vision and direction have become unclear. 

Such experiences often have a strong tendency to culminate in many ways that often include:

• persistently anxious ways of thinking, feeling, and viewing aspects of the world around you

• intrusive thoughts and unwanted memories that cause you to re-experience the past

• unpredictable waves of depressive emotion that leave you feeling less present and energized with yourself and those around you

• feeling trapped in an endless loop that keeps you stuck in patterns and places that are not serving you

• efforts to initiate or respond to communication somehow leads to the same points of aged conflict

• emotional numbness, self-alienation, and dissociation that leaves you feeling out of touch with a sense of Self

• chronic pain and bodily discomfort that has become increasingly challenging to cope with

• use of substances, self-harm, highly stimulating material such as pornography, as well as higher risk behaviors to help manage uncomfortable and intolerable feelings

• difficulty breaking out of old patterns to find relationships and self-practices that feel healthier and safer than the ones that came before them

Whether it is an experience mentioned in the list above or something else, I would appreciate the chance to hear from you in your own words what has made life a challenging place to be lately. Together, we can talk about some ways to help you find your footing and begin to feel better.

I so appreciate you taking the time to read this and hope that it enlightened some questions about how we might approach your therapy work together. I invite you to reach out with any thoughts and questions that you have and I will do my best to answer them as directly and thoroughly as possible.

I look forward to hearing from you,

-Chris