Therapy for Anxiety, Life Transitions, and Relationship Patterns

An Integrated Approach

I offer therapy for adults who want more than symptom relief and sense that something isn't quite reaching them, whether life looks fine from the outside or genuinely hard. My approach is grounded in attachment theory and draws on Internal Family Systems, somatic, and contemplative methods depending on what a given moment calls for. The principle underneath is the same: understanding a pattern usually isn't enough to change it. What changes it is being met, over time, in a way that early life may not have provided.

Specialties

Anxiety Treatment
Learning to work with anxiety rather than fight it, using somatic and nervous system regulation techniques.

Life Transitions
Navigating identity shifts, career and relationship changes, and questions of meaning, at a pace that honors where you actually are.

Relationship Patterns
Understanding the ways of relating that formed early and still run the show: pulling away when someone gets close, over-giving, losing yourself, meeting the same difficulty in new forms.

A Different Path to Therapy

I came to this work by an unusual route — first as a neuroscience researcher at McGill, then through the discovery that understanding the brain isn't the same as understanding the person. What actually changes people, in my experience, is something more relational than the science alone could reach.