Coping with difficult emotions

Grief, Anxiety, and Depression

People usually come to therapy after trying everything they can think of to manage on their own. I recognize the ambivalence many clients feel when they first walk in the door. I help clients who have found themselves anxious, lacking confidence, or suffering from loneliness or depression. Sometimes, things just feel off.

We explore the internal and external blocks, get really familiar with the factors driving your moods and behaviors, gain awareness, hit on the best approaches to change and, more often than you might expect, find ourselves laughing in session.

Mood changes come in many guises: insomnia, loneliness, perfectionism, body image issues, imposter feelings, people-pleasing, overeating or undereating, ruminative worry, and procrastination.

We want to feel centered, purposeful and joyful as we engage in our everyday lives, rather than anxiously looking for our mistakes, deflecting positive feedback, replaying interactions, or accommodating others’ wishes at great cost to our self-esteem.

Here’s something that can feel revelatory: There’s nothing wrong with you when you feel anxious and sad. Those painful feelings—depression, anxiety, panic, self-protective detachment from your surroundings—are messages from and to yourself that it’s time to make a change.

Taking time to understand these emotions in therapy creates the conditions for change. I’m here to direct our attention to these feelings and internal communications—to understand with you where they’re coming from. Emotions are road signs helping us get back on track in life. They point to parts of ourselves that fear has suppressed. You don’t need to continue to suffer. We can read the signs, bear those feelings together, then reset your course, shift your perspective, and renew your connection to what matters most to you.