Perhaps needing other people became complicated somewhere along the way. You learned to keep the peace, anticipate others’ needs, stay fiercely independent, or think your way through feelings that once felt too difficult. Maybe you long for closeness while pulling away, care for everyone while struggling to be cared for, or understand your patterns but still feel caught inside them.
I believe that when our deepest wounds happen in relationship, healing also needs to happen in relationship. I’m interested in how the past continues to shape the way we relate, protect ourselves, and make sense of who we are. Our work may involve slowing down and noticing what is happening beneath the surface: sensations in the body, feelings that do not yet have words, needs that may be difficult to acknowledge, and parts of yourself that you once had to carry alone.
I work with adults navigating childhood and relational trauma, overthinking, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and the younger parts of themselves that still carry old wounds—the parts that once learned particular ways of surviving in order to be loved, accepted, or not left behind.
Therapy may be a place to notice what you have been carrying, what it has cost you, and what you might no longer need to carry in quite the same way. I see therapy as a space for understanding, reclamation, and new ways of relating, to yourself, to others, and to the life you want to build.
Because none of us becomes ourselves alone.
