My approach is active, direct, and individualized. We won’t just talk about what happened during your week, we’ll work to understand what is driving the problem, what keeps it going, and what needs to change. You can expect compassion, but also questions, feedback, appropriate challenge, and adjustments when something isn’t working. The goal isn’t to keep you in therapy. The goal is to make therapy useful enough that you eventually don’t need it.

Private-pay therapy isn’t the right choice for everyone, but it can provide access to specialized care that may be difficult to find in-network. My practice focuses on trauma, addiction, compulsive sexual behavior, and betrayal trauma, with specialized training and assessment tools in these areas. You aren’t simply paying for someone to listen…you’re paying for the experience, training, clinical skill, and judgment to know what to listen for and what to do with it.

Many of the concerns I work with involve things people have kept secret because of shame, fear, or worry about how someone will react. I’ve heard a lot, and you don’t need to clean up your story before bringing it into the room. My job is to understand what’s happening, why it developed, and what will help, not to judge you for it.

Not at all. Those are areas of specialization, but they aren’t the only reasons people come to therapy. I also work with trauma, relationship difficulties, infidelity and betrayal, shame, attachment patterns, anxiety, chronic stress, and complex or overlapping concerns. Sometimes people also come in knowing something isn’t working but aren’t quite sure what the underlying issue is yet.

You don’t need to know what to call it before coming to therapy. We can start by looking at your sexual behaviors, patterns, level of control, consequences, and the role sex or pornography may be playing in your life. When appropriate, I can also use specialized sexual behavior assessments available through my CSAT training to help us better understand what’s happening. The goal isn’t to rush into a label…it’s to understand the behavior, what may be driving it, and whether it’s creating problems that need attention.

Yes. Infidelity, sexual secrecy, and other forms of betrayal can create significant emotional and betrayal trauma/trauma-related responses for both individuals and relationships. Therapy can help you understand what happened, stabilize overwhelming reactions, establish boundaries, address underlying patterns, and determine what healing or moving forward looks like for you. I also offer specialized assessments to better understand the impact of betrayal and help guide treatment.

Pornography use isn’t defined as problematic simply by how often someone views it. We look at the larger pattern including loss of control, unsuccessful attempts to stop or reduce use, secrecy, escalation, emotional reliance, and consequences in relationships, work, sexual functioning, or other areas of life. Assessment can help determine whether the behavior is recreational, problematic, compulsive, or part of a broader concern.