Inner Experience & Reaction
CBT, DBT, and problem-solving approaches can support emotional regulation, flexible thinking, communication, and grounded action.
Clinical Approach
Focus on Your Strengths, not Your Distress.
Clinical integrity, client-centered benevolence, and a wealth of life experience shape a collaborative, semi-structured approach grounded in evidence-based care.
I Hear My Clients Through All Five Senses.
I accompany clients in a courageous journey of self-discovery and breakthroughs. Together, we work to develop insight, self-compassion, interpersonal skills, and greater regulation of thoughts, affects, and behaviors.
The work is trauma-informed, symptom-focused, and person-centered, with talk therapy and interactive feedback complemented by suggested out-of-session reflections and practices.
What that can feel like
Calm enough to pause. Direct enough to be useful. Structured enough to stay oriented. Flexible enough to follow what matters.
Integrated, not formulaic
Different Ways of Understanding the Same Whole Person.
Life Vision and Relationships
Psychodynamic, attachment-focused, schema, and core-beliefs work help connect present subjective experience with a desired future and opportunities.
A Compound of Life Factors
IFS-informed, existential, somatic, and mindfulness approaches help assess systemic imbalance and identify areas of change.
The rhythm of therapy
What Working Together Looks Like
- We begin with the present.What is standing in your way now, and how is it affecting your emotional, relational, or professional life?
- We connect the context.Your history, patterns, beliefs, relationships, strengths, and environment help us understand the whole picture.
- We practice new responses.Insight and practical reflection work together so greater awareness can become greater choice and stronger competencies.
Explore These Approaches
CBT in Austin
How CBT and problem-solving therapy work in sessions, and who they can suit.
DBT-Informed Skills for Emotional Regulation
Practical skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance and communication, within individual therapy.
IFS-Informed Therapy
How IFS-informed therapy explores the protective parts of you with curiosity rather than judgment.
Psychodynamic Therapy in Austin
How psychodynamic therapy connects present patterns with earlier experience.
Existential Therapy
Therapy for questions of meaning, choice and change, especially during transitions.
Attachment-Focused Therapy
How early bonds shape closeness, trust and conflict today, explored in individual therapy.
A considered match
This Practice may be a Good fit if You
- …are a professional or executive managing high responsibility.
- …are an individual seeking work-life balance and value depth, insight, and thoughtful conversation.
- …prefer a therapist who is direct, attentive, intuitive, spontaneous, and fully engaged.
- …want therapy that respects your intelligence and lived experience.
- …appreciate culturally competent care.
A thoughtful first step
You do not Have to Keep Carrying This Alone.
A free 15-minute consultation is a focused, private conversation about what is bringing you here and whether we may work well together.