Life is challenging, and the relationships we value most are often where we feel it can be the most challenging — in patterns that repeat, disconnections that deepen, or in circumstances completely outside of our control. I work with young adults and couples navigating exactly these kinds of struggles; and I understand how hard it can be to ask for help.

Good therapy comes from a person-centered approach. As a Marriage and Family Therapist, I specialize in couples work. My practice is grounded primarily in Emotion-Focused Therapy and the Gottman Method — approaches that help people understand what’s happening beneath the surface of conflict and distance, and build real, lasting change in how they connect with themselves and others. I also draw from other frameworks and theories tailored to each individual client. 

Many of the struggles people bring to therapy — the chronic loneliness, the fear of being “too much” or “not enough,” the same argument on repeat, the relationships that never quite feel safe — are rooted in attachment wounds that formed long before the present moment. Emotion-Focused Therapy works at this deeper level. Rather than managing symptoms on the surface, we go to the emotional experiences that shaped how you learned to love, to protect yourself, and to need others. This work has the capacity to reach not just your present relationships, but the inherited patterns passed down through families across generations — the ways your parents’ unhealed wounds became the water you swam in. When we reshape how you experience and express your deepest emotions, we aren’t just improving a relationship or getting through a hard season. We’re doing something more fundamental: rewriting the emotional blueprints that have quietly governed your life. 

My style is direct. I won’t just reflect your words back at you — I’ll engage honestly, ask the hard questions, and tell you what I’m noticing. At the same time, I bring my own personal understanding of life’s deeply painful complications to this work. I know what it means to sit in a difficult moment, and I’ll meet you there without judgment.

My background in English and Creative Writing from Temple University shapes how I think about the stories we tell ourselves and others — and how those stories can shift. I grew up in Cincinnati and now call the Philadelphia area home, which has given me a deep appreciation for the many different ways people move through the world.

Therapy, at its best, doesn’t erase your past — it helps you understand it well enough that it stops running the show. I am truly honored to be a part of each client’s experience that has invited me to walk alongside them in some of the toughest moments in life and would be glad to do that work with you too.