My Approach to Psychotherapy
My approach to psychotherapy is collaborative, trauma-informed, and paced with intention. I integrate evidence-based clinical care with mindfulness, embodied awareness, and relational attunement to support healing that feels safe, respectful, and sustainable. Therapy is not about forcing change, but about creating the conditions in which insight can emerge and effective, meaningful action can take shape over time.
DBT techniques, ACT, and exposure protocols form a strong clinical backbone for my psychotherapy work, supporting the heart-centered and relational elements of my approach. These evidence-based modalities provide structured, effective tools alongside reflective and contemplative practices. Your growth is supported through approaches that are tested, reliable, and thoughtfully tailored to you.
Evidence-Based & Clinically Grounded Care
Trauma-Informed & Neurodivergent-Affirming Therapy
I have advanced clinical training and experience treating PTSD and trauma. My work is shaped by a deep understanding of how trauma impacts the whole body, daily functioning, and ways of relating to oneself and others.
This work is also neurodivergent-affirming, recognizing that healing looks different for each person and that treatment must be adapted in thoughtful, attuned ways—particularly for neurodivergent individuals, who are often trauma survivors. Together, we cultivate safety, resilience, and self-compassion, supporting you as you navigate trauma, anxiety, grief, and the challenges that commonly arise for neurodivergent or highly sensitive individuals.
Care is collaborative and intentionally paced, integrating evidence-based approaches with mindfulness and contemplative practices to support healing without retraumatization.
Rooted in my Zen training and dharma lineage, my work is informed by a Buddhist psychological understanding of suffering and liberation. You do not need to be Buddhist or hold any particular spiritual beliefs to engage in this work.
Through mindfulness tools and contemplative practices, we work together to cultivate your own unique insight into these existential experiences and explore how that awareness can meaningfully support your healing journey. Healing is not about fixing what is broken, but about remembering and embodying the wholeness and wisdom already present within you.
This work emphasizes both awareness and the practical application of meaningful tools, with guidance and support to learn, practice, and integrate them into daily life.
[Learn more about how I apply Buddhist concepts to psychotherapy]
Buddhist-Informed Perspective & Mindfulness Practice
Embodied & Relational Healing
Healing happens not only through insight, but through lived, felt experience—both in the body and in relationship. This is where trauma-informed care, neurodivergent-affirming practice, mindfulness, and clinical skill come together. My approach is grounded in an understanding that the body holds memory, emotion, and meaning, and that change occurs when the nervous system experiences safety, presence, and connection.
As we build the capacity to feel safer and more connected within ourselves, we are often able to connect more deeply with others. Developing internal safety supports greater intimacy, authenticity, and resilience in relationships, allowing safety to be built not only within, but between people.
Therapy too is a relational process. The therapeutic relationship itself becomes a space where patterns can be noticed, felt, and gently reshaped. Together, we attend to bodily sensations, emotional responses, and relational dynamics with curiosity and care, supporting integration rather than pushing for change.
When appropriate, I may integrate mindful movement, breathwork, or trauma-informed yoga.
This embodied and relational perspective is especially supportive in addressing challenges with intimacy, sexual health, relationships, and life transitions. The work is paced intentionally and guided by consent, supporting regulation, embodiment, and trust in one’s internal experience—so that insight and growth become grounded, lasting, and fully embodied.
How We Work Together
This work is patient, not passive. It kindly invites your participation at a pace that feel manageable — and together we create a space where that feels possible.
We practice new skills.
We experiment.
We repair relational patterns.
We work through trauma with care and evidence-based tools.
We build capacity — for regulation, for intimacy, for choice.
You do not need to be spiritual.
You do not need to meditate.
You do not need to be calm. (I’m not always calm either!)
You do need some willingness — even just a small amount!— to remain in relationship with yourself. To slow down enough to notice. To try something new. To open up to your experience. To ask for support when it feels hard.
If you are intense, thoughtful, sensitive, fast-moving, relationally hungry, or simply tired of carrying everything alone, this work may be a good fit. This page may also be helpful to look at too.
And if you’re unsure, we can find out together.
If something here resonates, you are welcome to reach out.
