Therapy here is humanistic, person-centered, and grounded in Buddhist psychology — a practical, evidence-informed lens for understanding your own mind, not a religious pursuit and not a set of platitudes to paper over what actually hurts. I work with individuals across eight states, in-person in Madison and via telehealth everywhere else I'm licensed.

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HOW I WORK

I'm humanistic and person-centered in my approach. This means you decide the content of our sessions. I believe you are doing the very best you can with what you have, and that you've come to this point because you need an additional perspective on a situation you're already working hard on. You may feel stuck. You may have tried a lot, or a little, to resolve it. Either way, that's where I come in.

Therapy is not forever, and it shouldn't be. I see myself as a temporary stop on your journey — not a permanent fixture in your life, but a committed one for as long as we're working together.

Some of what I bring to this work is clinical training. Some of it is lived experience — including my own history of surviving physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, and my own survival of a suicide attempt. I don't lead with these things, but I don't hide them either, because I think it matters that the person helping you through the worst chapters of your life has walked through some of their own.

My clinical approach draws primarily from Buddhist psychology and Accelerated Experiential Psychotherapy, integrated with the biological, psychological, neurological, sociological, anthropological, historical, and cultural context that shapes how you experience your own life.

THREE PRINCIPLES THAT SHAPE OUR WORK

Interbeing. You are not a solitary island. You are a living network — your genetics, your family history, your environment, your relationships. There is no isolated, permanently broken self in here; there is only a web of connections, and webs can be repaired at the points where they're frayed. If you're carrying grief, this is often where relief starts: the people and things you've lost haven't vanished. They continue in the way you laugh, the gestures you make, the values you carry forward.

Impermanence. Every cell in your body, every thought in your mind, every emotion moving through your chest is already changing. A great deal of suffering comes from fighting that — trying to hold a relationship, a career, or a version of yourself perfectly still. When change is the baseline rule rather than the enemy, a depressive episode or an anxiety attack stops being a life sentence and starts being what it actually is: a passing storm, in a body that has weathered storms before.

Mindfulness. Not clearing your mind. Not achieving permanent calm. Mindfulness, clinically, is the capacity to sit with an uncomfortable emotion without being swept away by it — to look directly at a painful memory or a hard feeling without your nervous system going into full alarm. It's the same mechanism behind cognitive defusion in ACT: learning to notice a thought like I am a failure rather than automatically believing it.

These aren't beliefs I'm asking you to adopt. They're tools. If a perspective lowers your suffering, keep it. If it doesn't, we discard it and try something else.