Anxiety and panic attacks are sometimes dismissed as simply feeling stressed or overwhelmed. But when anxiety persists, it can interfere with work, relationships, and daily life, leaving you feeling overwhelmed and unsure how to manage it on your own.

You may experience worry, fear, racing thoughts, restlessness, difficulty sleeping or concentrating, or exhaustion. Over time, these symptoms can affect your mood, self-esteem, and overall well-being.

Therapy can help you understand what drives your anxiety and how your body responds. Using an individualized blend of therapies, we can work to reduce its intensity, improve emotional regulation, and help you navigate difficult situations with greater confidence and well-being.

When you’re depressed, even the smallest things can feel heavy—getting out of bed, answering messages, or making simple decisions. You may feel hopeless, stuck, sad, lonely, or empty. Life can feel flat or “gray,” and things you once enjoyed may no longer bring pleasure or meaning.

Depression can affect sleep, appetite, concentration, energy, and self-esteem. You may experience guilt, worthlessness, or dark thoughts. When these feelings persist, it can be difficult to simply “pull yourself together.” Depression is not a weakness; it affects your body, brain, emotions, and how you experience yourself and the world.

Depression may accompany stress or anxiety, or be connected to grief, trauma, life transitions, relationship difficulties, medical or hormonal changes, or long-held beliefs about yourself. Sometimes, people turn to alcohol, drugs, excessive shopping or social media, compulsive exercise, or unhealthy relationships with food to cope.

Depression is treatable. Using a blend of CFT, CBT, Psychodynamic, and Mind/Body therapies, I help clients understand and regulate difficult emotions within a safe, trusting, non-judgmental relationship. You don’t have to do this alone; talking with a therapist can be an important first step toward feeling differently.

Grief is not something to be “fixed.” It is a natural response to loss, and there is no timeline for how or when we grieve. Everyone’s experience is unique and may be shaped by past emotional challenges, including trauma. Grief can be sudden or expected, sometimes complicated by difficult feelings toward the person we’ve lost. It is often fluid, with emotions shifting unexpectedly, bringing fear, anxiety, depression, or sadness.

Grief therapy provides a safe, supportive space to feel heard, understood, and seen without judgment. Together, we work to process the emotional, physical, and spiritual impact of loss, find meaning in its aftermath, and gradually integrate the loss into your life rather than trying to forget.

Using a customized blend of therapies, I help clients understand their responses to loss, ease anxiety and depression, develop inner resources, and find ways to move forward while honoring what—and who—they have lost.

When you struggle with low self-esteem or a harsh inner critic, you may focus on keeping others happy while neglecting your own needs. Self-esteem—how we see ourselves—is often shaped early in life by our relationships and the messages we receive, but it can also be affected by later experiences, trauma, difficult relationships, or feeling unable to meet the expectations of others or yourself.

You may have learned to keep the peace, become a people-pleaser, or constantly question whether you are “good enough.” You may lack confidence, experience imposter syndrome, or feel as though you are waiting to be “found out.” Over time, these patterns can leave you feeling undeserving and make it difficult to recognize your strengths and potential.

In therapy, we explore where these beliefs and your critical inner voice developed, what triggers them, and how they affect your life. Using a blend of therapies within a safe, non-judgmental relationship, I help clients develop greater self-compassion, challenge negative beliefs, and build a lasting sense of positive self-regard.

If you experienced abuse or trauma as a child, you may have developed ways of coping that helped you survive—withdrawal, denial, people-pleasing, emotional disconnection, acting out, or blaming yourself. While these responses may have protected you then, they can become deeply rooted patterns that continue into adulthood, often without your awareness.

You may struggle with low self-esteem, self-criticism, depression, guilt, shame, trust, or sleep. You may turn to behaviors such as disordered eating, excessive shopping or social media, alcohol or drugs, or struggle with intimacy and relationships. Present-day experiences can sometimes trigger unresolved pain from the past, leaving you distressed, disconnected, or overwhelmed.

Using a blend of therapies within a safe, secure, and non-judgmental relationship, I help clients understand these patterns and develop a kinder, more compassionate relationship with themselves. Feeling truly seen, heard, and understood can help you reshape your relationship with the past and reconnect with a healthier, evolving sense of self.

Change is a constant part of life, yet even positive transitions can affect our emotions and trigger stress, anxiety, or a sense of loss. Whether changes involve relationships, work, finances, health, family, moving, or aging, what was familiar is no longer the same, while what comes next may still be uncertain.

Transitions such as divorce, separation, career changes, children leaving home, a new diagnosis, giving birth, perimenopause, menopause, or aging can bring anxiety, depression, loneliness, anger, overwhelm, or difficulty sleeping, eating, or concentrating. Even positive changes, such as a new child, job, or home, can create emotional strain as we adjust to new roles and responsibilities.

With particular sensitivity to the emotional challenges women may experience during physiological changes, I recognize their mental, emotional, and physical impact. Using a blend of therapies, including Compassion-Focused Therapy, I provide a safe, non-judgmental space to feel heard, seen, and understood while developing greater self-awareness, resilience, and inner resources to navigate change.

Relationships are an important part of our lives, but even strong relationships can face challenges. Communication breakdowns, unresolved disagreements, or external pressures can create stress, resentment, and disconnection. You may feel criticized, rejected, or misunderstood; struggle to express your needs or set boundaries; repeat familiar patterns across relationships; or feel unsure how to move forward.

Whether you’re struggling in an intimate, family, friendship, or professional relationship, therapy can help you understand how your emotional triggers, expectations, patterns, and earlier experiences influence the way you relate to others. Together, we can explore communication, boundaries, trust, vulnerability, and self-respect while developing new ways to respond and interact.

Using a compassion-focused approach, psychodynamic perspective, and understanding of family dynamics, I provide a safe, supportive space to help you better understand yourself and your relationships. With greater self-awareness and confidence, you can learn to express your needs authentically, take responsibility for your emotions, and build healthier, stronger relationships.

Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) is a structured, science-based approach to reducing self-criticism, building self-compassion, and healing. Defined as “the sensitivity to suffering in self and others, with a commitment to try to alleviate and prevent it,” CFT is grounded in neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and Buddhist philosophy.

CFT helps you develop the courage and wisdom to stay present with difficult emotions, responding with empathy rather than criticism. Through greater self-awareness, understanding, and practical skills, you can learn to work with difficult thoughts and feelings rather than against them.

Life is already hard. Compassion can change how we respond to emotional pain.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a structured, evidence-based approach that helps you recognize and change patterns of thinking and behavior that may be contributing to emotional distress. Its core principle is that thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interconnected; by developing greater awareness of unhelpful or distorted thinking, you can improve emotional regulation and respond in healthier ways.

CBT can be particularly helpful for anxiety, panic attacks, trauma, PTSD, and persistent negative or distorted thoughts.

Mindfulness Therapy integrates practices such as breathing exercises and body scans with other therapies to develop greater awareness of your thoughts, emotions, and body in the present moment. By cultivating a more nonjudgmental and accepting awareness, mindfulness can help you manage intense emotions, reduce automatic reactions, and develop greater emotional regulation.

Psychodynamic Therapy, based on psychoanalytic theory, explores how unconscious thoughts, past experiences, and emotional conflicts can influence current behavior and relationships. Unlike more structured approaches such as CBT, it focuses on developing deeper self-awareness and understanding the origins of emotional struggles. Through these insights, you can begin to create meaningful and lasting change—not simply relieve symptoms in the moment.

Integrating an understanding of family dynamics while working with individual clients, Family Systems Therapy explores how early family relationships, communication, and patterns can influence current emotions and behaviors. Developing a deeper understanding of these dynamics can create an opening for meaningful change in the issues that brought you to therapy.

Because each person is part of a larger family system, changes in one family member can have the potential to positively affect the entire family.