Therapy & Counseling Services

for individuals and couples in Austin, Texas

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Individual Therapy for Adults

Many things bring people into therapy. You may be navigating loss or stress without sufficient support, feel disconnected from your life, recognize frustrating patterns within yourself that you struggle to change, or need a space dedicated to knowing yourself better in order to make decisions that get you closer to a satisfying life.

Rather than focusing solely on symptom relief or surface-level strategies, I work with clients to explore the deeper emotional patterns and internal narratives that shape how they experience themselves and the world. While this work focuses on depth and exploration, I also believe in grounding those things in action, clarity, and meaningful change when needed.

Relational Therapy for Individuals

I draw from my relationship framework to help individuals work on relationship behaviors and reactions that are keeping them from having healthier connections. In our work together, we’ll slow down and create space to explore what’s underneath the patterns and what’s needed to shift them.

Common Themes I Work With

  • Perfectionism + chronic pressure

  • Difficulty setting boundaries or voicing needs

  • High-functioning anxiety or burnout

  • Unfulfilling relationship patterns (romantic, family, or work)

  • Feeling disconnected from creativity and vitality

  • Chronic self-doubt

Some of the patterns I specialize in:

  • Feeling like it's never good enough, even when you're doing everything "right".

  • Saying yes when you mean no, caretaking others while neglecting yourself.

  • Silencing your own needs to keep the peace, then feeling resentful or unseen.

  • Carrying a heavy sense of responsibility for others’ reactions or happiness. “Being the strong one” but struggling alone inside.

Couples Therapy

Building Secure and Supportive Relationships

Working with couples is a deeply satisfying part of my job. I find that partners do not realize their effect on each other, but with this understanding they can greatly minimize stress and conflict in their lives. Relationship counseling helps people utilize their connection so that it becomes a resource and support rather than a stressor.

While I have received training in a variety of relational and systems modalities, the Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy, developed by Dr. Stan Tatkin, has the strongest influence on how I work. I spent three years studying under Dr. Tatkin and am a Level II PACT certified clinician.

PACT works with nonverbal subtleties and nervous system regulation in a powerful way that differs from traditional approaches to couples work. So, even if you’ve gone to couples counseling before and left disappointed or feel you’ve tried everything, I’d love a chance to work with you using this framework.

I welcome all kinds of partnerships, including non-traditional relationships, and aim to create an affirming space for difference, complexity, and nuance.

I Work with couples who would like to:

  • Proactively build a strong foundation in their relationship

  • Work through painful circumstances or patterns (infidelity, loss, deception, conflict, dysfunctional family dynamics)

  • Adjust to new circumstances (pregnancy, parenthood, job transitions, health diagnoses)

  • Deepen connection and intimacy

  • Navigate neurodiversity within their relationship

Sessions might include:

  • I pay close attention to subtle shifts in tone, body language, and nervous system responses to help partners notice what happens between them in real time and how this contributes to their unique cycles of conflict and misunderstandings.

  • I slow partners down in conversations and conflict to explore what each person is experiencing internally (emotionally, physically, and cognitively). This helps couples untangle what each partner brings to the relationship dynamic, increase compassion for each other, and gain more clarity.

  • Instead of only talking about patterns like avoidance, communication breakdowns, and recurring conflict, we work within them. I use guided exercises to uncover where people are getting stuck and create new experiences. I think it’s important couples are having different, eye-opening experiences in our sessions and not just repeating a dance they are already sick of.

  • I help partners learn to recognize how stress and emotion show up in their bodies and how to regulate together when things feel intense or confusing. We also explore how attachment and stress physiology could be affecting partner’s capacity to stay present, empathize, and take accountability.

  • We experiment together with new ways of communicating, comforting, and staying connected following tension and conflict. I provide tangible take-aways on skills to practice, strategies to build more relational safety so conflict is less distressing, and what neurobiology tells us about what helps us recover from conflict more quickly and effectively when it does happen.

  • Sessions balance insight and action. Often what is getting in the way of healthy relating is missing skillsets. I support partners in developing tangible skills such as communicating more effectively, being able to verbalize their internal experience, or emotional regulation.