Individual Therapy

Anxiety often emerges as the mind's protective response to perceived threats, sometimes rooted in early attachment experiences where safety felt uncertain. Beyond just worried thoughts, anxiety lives in the body—racing heart, shallow breathing, muscle tension—signaling distress that can feel overwhelming. Through our work together, we'll explore these bodily sensations alongside the underlying relational patterns and unconscious beliefs that maintain your anxiety. By gently attending to both your somatic experience and the deeper emotional narratives that shape your relationship with uncertainty, you can develop a more regulated nervous system and a compassionate understanding of your anxiety's origins, allowing for new possibilities in how you experience yourself and navigate the world.

Depression often speaks through a profound sense of disconnection—from others, oneself, and life's natural rhythms. This emotional state may reflect early object relations where important needs went unmet or unwitnessed, creating internal working models that perpetuate feelings of emptiness or worthlessness. Your depression carries meaningful information about your inner landscape and relational history. Together, we'll create a holding environment where these difficult emotions can be felt and understood without judgment, while also attending to how depression manifests in your body as heaviness, lethargy, or numbness. Through this integrative approach, many clients gradually reconnect with their vitality and discover that their capacity for authentic connection—to themselves and others—was never truly lost, just temporarily obscured.

Trauma lives not just in our memories but in our bodies and nervous systems, often disrupting our sense of safety and connection in profound ways. Whether from single overwhelming events or chronic relational wounds, trauma fragments our experience and can leave us oscillating between numbness and overwhelming activation. Using somatic experiencing within a psychodynamic framework, our work honors how your body has intelligently adapted to protect you while carefully building pathways toward integration. By attending to bodily sensations, attachment patterns, and the meaning you've made of your experiences, we create conditions where healing becomes possible. Many clients discover that trauma recovery isn't just about managing symptoms but about reclaiming a sense of wholeness and presence that allows for genuine intimacy with yourself and others.