Welcome

You are understood here without the burden of explanation.

In this space, you can take off your shoes. You will find a safe, receptive, and cared-for environment where you can say anything—you can cry, laugh, or simply sit with the feelings you’ve been carrying. You will be met with patience, understanding, and mutual respect.

Most people arrive here because they are tired of the “performance.” My goal is to move beyond mere symptom management and help you restore the person behind the roles you play. This is a candid, peer-level alliance supported by a clear-eyed understanding of how our brains and behaviors interact under pressure.

The work we do is designed to help you learn about yourself so you can feel smart, empowered, and finally stop feeling like you have to hide.

Finding Beauty in the Break

I am deeply moved by the philosophy of Kintsugi—the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold. This bowl represents what I see in my clients every day.

You might come to therapy thinking you need “fixing,” but my role is to lead you to the understanding that what made you feel broken is actually what makes you beautiful and unique. We don’t disguise the history of the repair; we honor it as a source of strength. We aren’t looking for “perfect”; we are looking for a life that is integrated and uniquely yours.

A Foundation of Dignity

The practice is built on cultural humility and a trauma-informed lens, recognizing that we all carry unique, intersectional lives—including ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic status, lifestyle, and gender and sexual identity.

I work to understand how these factors interact to shape your worldview, ensuring your identity is met with dignity and informed support.

Areas of Focus

Within this inclusive framework, we focus on:

ADHD & Anxiety: Navigating the internal friction of a perceptive mind and restoring a sense of grounded agency.

Health-Care Providers: Specialized support for the physicians, nurses, and clinicians who navigate the unique weight of the provider role.

Men’s Groups & Transitions: A candid space for navigating life’s turning points.

Relational Partnerships: Utilizing clinical rigor to untangle patterns within couples and systems—including non-traditional and expansive structures—to foster deeper, more satisfying connections.

Our EXPERIENCE

ADHD & Anxiety:

  • The Overlap: ADHD and Anxiety often masquerade as one another; what looks like a lack of focus is often a mind paralyzed by worry, and what looks like anxiety is often a nervous system overwhelmed by unfiltered input.
  • The Feedback Loop: These forces fuel each other—ADHD can create the “misses” that lead to legitimate anxiety, while anxiety can scatter the very focus you need to stay grounded.
  • The “Worry” Engine: High-capacity individuals often use stress as a secondary motor to drive performance, eventually exhausting the system and blurring the line between drive and distress.
  • Structural Clarity: We work to untangle these two forces, identifying where one ends and the other begins so you can restore a sense of reliable agency.

Relational Partnerships:

  • Structural Mechanics: Integrating Gottman Method insights to move beyond surface-level conflict and identify the specific “loops” that stall a partnership.
  • The Relational Lens: Utilizing Tavistock concepts to understand the deeper, often unconscious dynamics that shape how individuals function within a pair or system.
  • Lifestyle & Identity: A space where non-traditional and expansive structures—including Kink, Poly, and ENM—are met with clinical rigor rather than explanation.
  • Systemic Agency: Balancing individual autonomy with the safety of the partnership, ensuring the relationship supports the person behind the roles.

Health-Care Providers:

  • The Provider-as-Patient: Addressing the unique complexity of seeking support when you are trained to be the one providing it—ensuring a space free from professional performance.
  • The Weight of Advocacy: Navigating the moral injury and systemic fatigue that come with practicing within high-pressure healthcare environments.
  • Clinical Burnout: Moving beyond “self-care” tropes to address the structural exhaustion of the nervous system and the loss of professional agency.

  • The Relational Spillover: Identifying how the weight of the provider role impacts your personal life, often creating a sense of isolation or a struggle to shift out of “clinical mode” with those you love.

Men’s Narratives & Transitions:

  • The Internal Blueprint: Identifying where your definition of “manhood” was inherited—from fathers, peers, and society—and untangling which parts of that map no longer fit your current reality.
  • Relational Navigation: Addressing the confusion of modern expectations within partnerships and families, focusing on how shifting roles and identities impact your ability to connect and lead.
  • .The Performance of Strength: Addressing the exhaustion of maintaining a “capable” exterior while navigating the confusion of modern expectations and internal uncertainty.
  • Restoring Agency: Providing a candid, peer-level space to observe the habits that no longer serve you, allowing you to move through life’s resets with a clear-eyed strategy.