As a licensed psychotherapist, I care about exploring the variety of ways we create meaningful and authentic lives in light of the messy experience of being human. I approach my work with an attitude of curiosity, an appreciation for our unique personal histories, and an unwavering trust in your process of creating a full life. Together, we’ll hold suffering with compassion, find a way to come up for air, and pay close attention to what matters most to you. Through this process, my hope is for you to feel more confident exercising your freedom to strive toward authenticity, even in the midst of risk and uncertainty.

My therapeutic orientation is rooted in existential-humanistic values and evidence-based practice. I value standing side by side in genuine relationship, honoring your self-determination, and relating from an empathic way of being. I also care about the evidence we have for what works, along with flexibly responding to the needs of the individual. Aligned with these values, I practice Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), an evidence-based, trans-diagnostic approach to psychotherapy—meaning we have empirical evidence to support its effectiveness across a broad range of psychological problems and clinical diagnoses. By way of integrating mindfulness, acceptance, and values practices, ACT works to enlarge our capacity to respond to life’s complexities with greater openness, awareness, and engagement.

Additionally, I provide voluntary routine outcome measures as a supplementary method for gathering data on your experience throughout the therapeutic process. Using routine outcome measures is a practice of incorporating client feedback through self-reported questionnaires that are proven to be reliable and valid measures of patient outcomes. In a context of collaborative partnership, I believe these measures can be an effective tool for increasing a sense of transparency in the therapeutic relationship, thinking about what’s working or not working, and making ongoing adjustments to therapy as needed. Moreover, there’s evidence to suggest that using routine outcome measures helps to maximize our chances of a positive therapeutic outcome.

In essence, I have a passion for bridging humanistic and scientific perspectives in psychotherapy, but what I value most about this work is the person boldly sitting before me. Wherever you are in this “harsh and exciting” life, I hope to meet you as a fellow traveler, striving compassionately together.