In my thirties, I left a highly successful but deeply unfulfilling career in management consulting to become a psychotherapist. At the encouragement of my therapist and husband, I ditched the golden handcuffs and went back to graduate school. I received my Master of Science in Social Work (MSSW) with a Clinical Social Work specialization from the University of Texas at Austin, starting my own practice in 2005.

Two decades later, I feel profoundly fortunate to spend my days with people who trust me and are courageous enough to take these transformative journeys. They bravely share and explore their fears, insecurities, anger, disappointments, grief, trauma, and shame to build better relationships with themselves, their partners, their children, and others in their lives.

I use my training and skills as a systems thinker, as well as my wisdom and expertise about relationships, in my therapeutic and organizational work with couples and colleagues. I work from a psychodynamic approach, but utilize an integrative framework of interventions. Some of the specific modalities that inform this framework include: Systems Theory, Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), Attachment Theory, Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Self Psychology, Control Mastery Theory (CMT), Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT), Object Relations Theory, Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), and Internal Family Systems Theory (IFS). I also consult regularly with colleagues across specialties and stay up-to-date with the latest science and research.

In addition, I draw from my own experience as a parent to a thriving teenager and a partner in a 24-year relationship. Like many marriages, ours hasn’t always been effortless. New life stages present unfamiliar challenges we have had to figure out how to navigate together. It’s been full of pleasant and unpleasant surprises, real conflict, and beautiful moments that come with two separate and different humans building a life together over decades. Along the way, we’ve had to dig into our own histories to understand how they affect the way we show up for ourselves, each other, and our daughter. Neither of us were raised in families that handled conflict or differences productively, we had to carve it out for ourselves. The hard-earned wisdom I’ve gained through my own personal experience has shaped how I coach and walk alongside others.

I received my Master of Science in Social Work (MSSW) with a Clinical Social Work specialization from the University of Texas in Austin, Texas.