Therapy for Meaningful Change
Compassionate, evidence-based therapy for adults and couples navigating life's challenges, relationships and emotional well-being.
How Therapy Can Help
A Place to Understand, Heal and Move Forward
Therapy can provide a supportive and collaborative setting for understanding the experiences, emotions, relationships and patterns that may be making life more difficult.
People seek therapy for many different reasons. You may be struggling with anxiety or depression, adjusting to a significant change or loss, working through painful experiences, experiencing difficulties in an important relationship, or simply recognizing that something in your life needs to change.
My goal is to help you better understand what is happening, identify patterns that may be keeping you stuck, and develop practical strategies for moving toward greater emotional well-being, healthier relationships and a more satisfying life.
EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING
Anxiety, depression, stress, grief and loss, emotional regulation, and other concerns that can interfere with enjoying life and functioning well.
RELATIONSHIPS
Communication difficulties, recurring conflict, emotional disconnection, relationship stress, and patterns that make it difficult to relate well to the people who matter most.
LIFE CHANGES & PERSONAL GROWTH
Major transitions, difficult decisions, changing roles, personal challenges, and a desire to better understand yourself and make meaningful changes in your life.
Individual Therapy
People come to therapy for many reasons. Sometimes the problem is clear—persistent anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, overwhelming stress or a difficult life transition. At other times, you may simply recognize that the way you are thinking, feeling or responding is making it harder to live the life you want.
Individual therapy provides an opportunity to better understand the thoughts, emotions, experiences and patterns contributing to your concerns. Together, we work to identify what may be keeping you stuck and develop practical strategies for creating meaningful and lasting change.
Treatment is tailored to your individual needs, concerns and goals. Together, we will identify priorities for therapy and develop an approach designed to help you better understand what is getting in the way and make meaningful, sustainable changes.
Understanding what’s getting in the way—and finding a healthier way forward.
Anxiety, worry & stress
Depression & low mood
Trauma & painful experiences
Grief & loss
OCD & intrusive thoughts
Areas We May Address
Emotional regulation
Relationship concerns
Life transitions & adjustment
Self-esteem & personal growth
Difficult patterns of thinking or behavior
Couples Therapy
Even strong relationships can become caught in patterns of conflict, disconnection or misunderstanding. Over time, couples may find themselves having the same arguments, withdrawing from one another, struggling to communicate effectively or feeling increasingly distant.
Couples therapy provides a setting to slow these patterns down, better understand what is happening between you and develop healthier ways of communicating and responding to one another.
My approach helps couples identify the interaction patterns that contribute to distress while strengthening emotional connection, communication, empathy and constructive problem-solving. Treatment draws from evidence-based approaches to couples therapy and is tailored to the needs, concerns and goals of each couple.
Understanding the patterns between you—and building a healthier way of relating.
Challenges & Change
Trust and relationship injuries
Stress affecting the relationship
Life transitions and changing roles
Strengthening an already healthy relationship
Common Relationship Concerns
Communication & Connection
Recurring arguments and conflict
Communication difficulties
Emotional distance or disconnection
Difficulty expressing needs and feelings
My Approach to Therapy
Evidence-based treatment. Individualized to the person.
Effective therapy begins with understanding the person—not simply applying a technique. I take time to understand your concerns, experiences, relationships, strengths and goals so that treatment can be tailored to what will be most helpful for you.
My approach draws from evidence-based methods including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Solution-Focused Therapy, and other approaches selected according to your individual needs. In couples therapy, I integrate evidence-based approaches designed to improve communication, strengthen emotional connection and help couples change unproductive patterns of interaction.
The goal is not simply to reduce symptoms. Therapy can also help you better understand yourself, recognize patterns that may be keeping you stuck, develop healthier ways of responding to challenges and build practical skills that support lasting change.
UNDERSTAND
Recognize the thoughts, emotions, experiences and relationship patterns contributing to the difficulties you are facing.
CHANGE
Develop practical strategies and new ways of thinking, responding and relating that support meaningful progress.
GROW
Strengthen the skills, insight and resilience that can help you maintain change and navigate future challenges.
Faith-Integrated Therapy
For clients who desire it, I can integrate Christian faith and spiritual perspectives into therapy in ways that are consistent with your beliefs, values and treatment goals.
Faith integration is always collaborative and client-directed. It may include exploring how your faith informs the concerns you are addressing, drawing upon relevant spiritual beliefs and practices, or considering how psychological and spiritual perspectives can work together as part of the therapeutic process.
Faith integration is never required. Clients of all faith backgrounds—or no religious affiliation—are welcomed and respected.
Integrating faith when it is important to you.
What You Can Expect
A professional relationship that is collaborative, practical and focused on you.
Beginning therapy can feel uncertain, whether this is your first experience with therapy or you have worked with a therapist before. My goal is to provide an environment where you can speak openly, feel understood and work at a pace that is appropriate for you.
Our work begins by developing a clear understanding of what brings you to therapy, what you would like to change and what may be getting in the way. Together, we will identify meaningful goals and develop a treatment approach tailored to your needs.
You can expect me to be engaged and collaborative. I will listen carefully and seek to understand your experience, while also offering observations, asking thoughtful questions and introducing practical strategies when they may be helpful. Psychotherapy is not simply about talking through problems—it is about developing greater understanding and using that understanding to create meaningful change.
As therapy progresses, we will periodically consider what is helping, where you may still feel stuck and whether our approach needs to be adjusted. The goal is for therapy to be purposeful, useful and responsive to what you need.
The Therapy Process
A clear and collaborative path from getting started to moving forward.
1 — GETTING STARTED
Reach out when you're ready.
Contact me to ask questions or schedule an initial appointment. Before we meet, you will receive information about the practice and secure online forms to complete so I can begin learning about you and what brings you to therapy.
2 — INITIAL APPOINTMENT
Understanding what brings you to therapy.
Our first appointment gives us time to discuss your concerns, relevant history, current circumstances and what you hope to accomplish. We will begin identifying your treatment goals and consider an approach that fits your needs.
3 — ONGOING THERAPY
Working together toward meaningful change.
As therapy continues, we will work collaboratively toward your goals, using evidence-based approaches and practical strategies appropriate to your needs. We will periodically evaluate your progress and adjust our work when helpful.
Initial therapy appointments are approximately 75 minutes. Ongoing appointments are typically 50 minutes.
Ready to Get Started?
Therapy from the privacy and convenience of your own space.
Fees & Payment
Initial Therapy Appointment — 75 minutes | $250
Ongoing Therapy Appointment — 50 minutes | $200
I do not participate with commercial insurance plans and do not bill insurance directly. Payment is due at the time of service. Credit/debit cards and eligible HSA or FSA cards may be used for payment.
If you have out-of-network mental health benefits and would like to seek reimbursement from your insurance plan, I can provide a Superbill upon request. Reimbursement is determined by your insurance plan and is not guaranteed.
Good Faith Estimate: If you are uninsured or are not using insurance to pay for psychotherapy, you have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate of the expected charges for your care. Learn more about your Good Faith Estimate rights.
Taking the Next Step
If you are considering psychotherapy and would like to get started, please contact me with questions or request an initial appointment.
Therapy is provided exclusively through secure video sessions, allowing you to meet with me from your home or another private location without the time and travel associated with an office visit.
Therapy services are available to clients in Arizona and other jurisdictions where I am authorized to practice through PSYPACT.