I believe you should be able to bring the complicated version of the story to therapy.

The part where you love your partner and you're furious with them. Where you know you contributed to the problem and still believe something that happened wasn't okay. Where you want your relationship to work—and aren't completely sure you want to stay.

You don't need to organize those contradictions before you walk into my office.

My job is to help you slow things down, understand what's happening, and figure out what deserves your attention.

That means I'll listen carefully. I'll ask questions. I'll help you see patterns that may be difficult to recognize from inside them.

And I'll tell you when I see something getting in your way.

Warmth and honesty aren't opposites here.

I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has spent much of my career helping people understand relationships—what makes them work, what gets them stuck, and what helps them change.

My approach to therapy has been shaped by advanced training in the Gottman Method, Systemic Affair Recovery Therapy, PACT, and other relationship-focused approaches. I don't believe one model has every answer. Training gives me different ways to understand what's happening; experience helps me know which ones may actually be useful for the person or couple sitting in front of me.

Before becoming a therapist, my background included teaching and business. Both continue to influence the way I work. I value learning, clear communication, practical application, and understanding how one person's response affects what happens next.

I also believe therapy should respect the investment you're making in it.

I come prepared. We'll have goals. We'll pay attention to what's changing and what isn't. And when something happens in the room that gives us useful information, we'll use it.

Experience gives us a plan. Expertise tells us when to change it.

My style is warm, direct, curious, and collaborative. I won't expect you to agree with everything I say, and I won't assume I understand your experience better than you do.

Good therapy isn't built on agreement.

It's built on enough trust to be honest, curious, and willing to look at something differently.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT)

Education

Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy

Master of Education

Advanced Relationship Training

Gottman Method — Level 3

Systemic Affair Recovery Therapy (SART) — Infidelity Recovery, Level 1

PACT — Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy

EMDR Trained

Gottman Program Leadership

Certified Leader — The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

Certified Leader — Bringing Baby Home

You may come in knowing exactly what needs to change. Or you may only know that something isn't working anymore.

Either is enough.

Bring the problem. We'll figure out where to start.