What makes this approach to therapy personal?

No two people are the same and no two paths through therapy should be either. This practice is built on the belief that effective therapy must be tailored to the unique history, nervous system, personality, and goals of each individual. Rather than applying a single fixed method, I draw from a range of evidence-based, neuroscience-informed approaches to create a treatment experience that is genuinely personal.

How does neuroscience inform this therapy?

Understanding how the brain works is not just academic, it is deeply practical and often immediately relieving. Many people come to therapy feeling broken, ashamed, or confused about why they feel or behave the way they do. Neuroscience psychoeducation changes that. When you understand how your brain processes threat, stores memory, regulates emotion, and forms patterns of thought and behavior, your experience begins to make sense. That shift, from self-blame to self-understanding, is often where healing begins.

Research in neuroscience has shown that the brain remains changeable throughout life, a quality known as neuroplasticity. Therapy, when done well, literally helps rewire neural pathways, softening old patterns and building new ones. Every approach used in this practice is selected with that biological reality in mind.

What therapeutic approaches are used?

Coherence Therapy: Coherence therapy is grounded in research on memory reconsolidation, the brain's own natural process for permanently updating learned emotional responses. It is based on the idea that symptoms like anxiety, depression, or self-defeating behaviors are not random, they are the brain's perfectly logical response to deeper emotional learnings formed earlier in life. Rather than simply managing or suppressing symptoms, coherence therapy works to uncover and transform those root-level beliefs at their source. By bringing unconscious emotional truths into awareness and pairing them with new experience, the brain can actually rewire itself — producing change that is lasting and genuine, not just managed.

AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy): AEDP is a relationally focused, emotion-centered approach that works with what is happening in the present moment: in the body, in the therapeutic relationship, and in the emotional experience unfolding in the moment. Rather than simply talking about difficult experiences, AEDP helps you process them at a deeper level, moving through stuck emotion toward genuine transformation. It is grounded in attachment theory and neuroscience, and emphasizes that healing happens in the context of a safe, attuned relationship.

Parts Work: Parts work is based on the understanding that we are not one single, unified self. We are a system of inner parts, each with its own history, beliefs, and protective role. A part of you might strive relentlessly for success while another part feels perpetually not enough. A part might shut down emotionally while another desperately wants connection. Therapy helps you identify, understand, and develop a relationship with all of your parts — reducing inner conflict and building a more integrated, grounded sense of self.

Skills Training: These types of tools can include:

• Boundary Work — Supporting you in identifying and establishing healthy boundaries across three dimensions: psychological (protecting your inner world and sense of self), containing (managing and regulating difficult emotions without being overwhelmed by them), and physical (recognizing and honoring bodily autonomy and personal space)

• Listening Skills — Teaching you how to truly listen to the people in your life. Moving beyond waiting to respond and tell your side of the story, to instead, offering full presence, curiosity, and understanding. Strong listening transforms relationships and is a powerful gifts you can give another person.

• Communication Skills — Building confidence and clarity in how you express your needs, feelings, and requests in relationships at work, home, and in everyday life

Neuroscience Psychoeducation: Throughout therapy, I may weave in accessible, jargon-free explanations of what is happening in the brain and nervous system. Understanding the neuroscience behind your anxiety, emotional reactivity, trauma responses, or relationship patterns is empowering. It replaces shame with curiosity, and confusion with clarity and that shift is genuinely therapeutic in itself.