Individual therapy

What do you actually want?

You might be used to being competent, capable, thoughtful, and attuned to everyone around you. But when you slow down, you may realize you're not always sure what you want.

You may feel disconnected from your body, struggle to access desire, have difficulty setting boundaries, or find yourself making choices based more on expectations than on what feels true for you.

Therapy can help you develop a deeper relationship with your body, emotions, sexuality, and internal world.

We'll explore what gets in the way of knowing and trusting yourself—and create more space for curiosity, pleasure, boundaries, desire, and choice.

You don't need to have a diagnosis or a crisis to begin. You can simply know that you want to feel more like yourself.

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Individual therapy is for anyone seeking to improve self-awareness, connection to self and others, increase pleasure in daily life, and cultivate a deep understanding of themselves. Individual therapy can provide a welcoming space to examine, process, and heal in the context of a therapeutic relationship.

Common areas of focus:

  • Building healthy attachments/relationships

  • Navigating grief after loss (e.g. death, divorce, other major life transitions)

  • Managing anxiety, stress, and other symptoms

  • Building mindfulness skills

  • Building self -acceptance, -compassion, -esteem

  • Developing boundaries

  • Processing trauma

  • Developing social and communication skills


EMDR in Individual therapy

I offer EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) in an individual therapy context. EMDR is a highly structured therapeutic modality. EMDR uses a protocol to reduce distress and strengthen adaptive beliefs, often related to distressing or traumatic events that have occurred in a client’s life. Specifically, EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to activate the problem-solving centers in the brain (that occur during REM sleep when eyes dart back and forth). By focusing on a specific problem and it’s negative and positive emotions, sensations, and beliefs, then using bilateral stimulation, your brain can process more effectively.

Common areas of focus using EMDR:

  • Recurring negative beliefs about self, others, or the world

  • Recurring distressing memories related to various life events

  • Attachment disruptions that have occurred without repair

  • Symptoms related to trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or complex trauma (CPTSD), including:

    • Recurrent, unwanted distressing memories

    • Reliving traumatic events as if they were happening again (flashbacks)

    • Upsetting dreams or nightmares

    • Trying to avoid thinking, talking about, or visiting places, activities, or people that remind you of the traumatic event

    • Hopelessness about the future

    • Memory challenges

    • Difficulty maintaining close relationships

    • Being easily startled or frightened or always being on guard (hypervigilence)

    • Trouble sleeping or trouble concentrating

    • Irritability, angry outbursts or self-destructive behavior

    • Overwhelming guilt or shame

More information about EMDR can be found here:

Note: Currently I am only seeing individuals 18 and over.