I see my role as a therapist as helping to ease suffering. Pain is part of being human, whether it is loss, disappointment, change, or the struggles of daily life. I believe in the idea that pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.

Suffering often comes from trying to avoid pain. We all develop ways to cope, and those strategies have helped you get this far. In fact, they are part of what makes you resilient. At the same time, sometimes those same strategies can keep us stuck.

In therapy, we have a chance to meet pain differently, to accept it, explore it, and slowly make it more tolerable. When that happens, space for change opens up. My role is not to push you or tell you how to do this. Instead, I walk with you as you discover your own path, finding the right mix of coping, exploring, accepting, and making meaning, in your own way and at your own pace.