Services
Welcome to my practice! Since 2009, I have been dedicated to supporting clients in the Austin area with a variety of psychological and counseling services tailored to your unique needs. Whether you’re an individual or a couple seeking guidance, my therapy sessions aim to bolster your confidence and facilitate healing. Explore the services I offer, and let’s connect to discuss how I can help.
Relationship with self
Having done a lot of my own personal therapy, I know it can feel daunting, overwhelming, and just plain hard. Using a relational approach blended with some direct communication, insight, and humor, my goal is to make it feel like a safe place to navigate the ups and downs.
I work with adults who:
*Feel like they want to know themselves better or who feel they have lost who they were
*Struggle with repeating the same old patterns. Feeling stuck
*Struggle with understanding social cues, forming relationships, being self out in the world
*Feel either more sensitive than others and unsure how to regulate. Or feeling more avoidant than others and how to connect in a way that feels authentic
Relationship with other (s)
You are a team. Let's figure out how to make it feel that way. I'll help each of you truly understand the other so that you can successfully navigate the relationship together. Learning your partner's language, understanding your own triggers and how they contribute to the dynamic, and working on communication will be some main areas of focus.
I help relationships that:
*Feel full of resentment or stagnant and disconnected
*Have experienced infidelity or betrayal
*Feel stuck in the same dance. The same pattern. The same arguments.
*Have two people that speak different languages
*Struggle with differing needs for touch, time together and time apart
Intimacy Counseling
Why sex counseling? Sex can be a resource for great connection, pleasure and joy. And sometimes it's not. I want to work with you to learn what "good" sex means to you. This often is different for everyone and entails building an authentic relationship with that part of you. We'll go over your sexual history, assess the concerns you have, and look at roadblocks preventing you from engaging in a way that feels good to you. Exercises to do at home in combination with talking through what's bothering you can go a long way.
I work with people who:
*Struggle to connect with that part of themselves due to trauma, upbringing, cultural and religious factors
*Don't know what they want and struggle to communicate that with partner
*Experience pain with intercourse due to pain disorders or other variables
*Experience differing needs/wants for sex in relationship
*Feel out of control in their sexual behavior