Specialities

Person-Centered & Integrative Therapy

Therapy isn’t one-size-fits-all. Person-centered and integrative therapy begins with understanding you as a whole person—not simply a diagnosis, symptom, or problem to be solved.

This approach recognizes that you are the expert on your own life. Therapy is collaborative and shaped around your individual experiences, needs, values, strengths, and goals. Rather than following the same formula with every client, different therapeutic approaches may be thoughtfully combined to support what you need at each stage of the process.


At the heart of this approach is a genuine, supportive therapeutic relationship where you can feel heard, understood, and accepted. Together, we can explore what feels heavy, recognize patterns that may no longer serve you, and find a path forward that feels authentic to who you are becoming.

Therapy may provide space to reflect on the experiences that have shaped you, make sense of current challenges, and consider what you want for the next chapter of your life. Sessions may include emotional exploration, practical coping strategies, nervous-system awareness, examining relationship patterns, and approaches such as EMDR or sandtray therapy when appropriate.

Person-centered and integrative therapy may be beneficial for:

• Anxiety, depression, stress, and burnout
• Major life transitions and changing roles
• Grief, loss, and unresolved emotions
• Relationship concerns and family dynamics
• People-pleasing and difficulty setting boundaries
• Caregiving stress and overresponsibility
• Perfectionism and self-criticism
• Identity, purpose, and questions about what comes next
• Changes related to aging, health, or menopause
• Empty-nest transitions, divorce, or retirement
• Low self-esteem and difficulty trusting yourself
• Feeling disconnected from your needs, values, or sense of self
• Developing healthier coping and communication skills
• Creating more balanced and fulfilling relationships

EMDR Therapy

Difficult experiences can continue to shape how you feel, respond, and relate to yourself long after the moment has passed. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured, evidence-based therapy that helps the brain process distressing memories and experiences that may feel emotionally unresolved.

EMDR focuses on memories and experiences that still feel emotionally charged or continue to influence present-day thoughts, emotions, relationships, and reactions. Through guided eye movements or other forms of bilateral stimulation, the brain is supported in reprocessing these experiences so they no longer feel as immediate or overwhelming. This can help loosen deeply held beliefs such as “I’m not safe,” “I’m not enough,” or “It was my fault” and create space for a more compassionate and balanced understanding of yourself.

You don’t have to share every detail of an experience for EMDR to be effective. Treatment is paced thoughtfully, with time devoted to building safety, emotional regulation, and readiness before deeper processing begins.

EMDR can help you understand how the past may still be influencing the present—creating space for painful memories to feel less immediate and for you to move forward with greater calm, clarity, and self-compassion.

EMDR therapy may be beneficial for:

• Trauma and post-traumatic stress
• Childhood wounds and painful past experiences
• Complex and repeated relational trauma
• Sexual trauma
• Medical trauma, procedures, or frightening diagnoses
• Grief, loss, and unresolved sorrow
• Anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias
• Distressing memories connected to relationships or divorce
• Attachment wounds and fear of rejection or abandonment
• People-pleasing, perfectionism, and overresponsibility
• Negative beliefs about worth, safety, or belonging
• Caregiver stress and emotionally overwhelming experiences
• Changes related to health, aging, menopause, or identity
• Chronic illness and the emotional effects of ongoing pain
• Performance anxiety and fear of failure
• Life transitions that reactivate earlier experiences

Sandtray Therapy

Sometimes words alone aren’t enough to express what you’re carrying. Sandtray therapy is an expressive and experiential approach in which you use miniature figures, meaningful objects, and sand to create a scene that reflects your inner experience.

For women navigating midlife and later adulthood, sandtray therapy can offer a different way to explore complex emotions, relationships, memories, and life transitions. The images and symbols you choose can help bring shape to experiences that feel difficult to explain, revealing patterns, needs, and parts of yourself that may have remained beneath the surface.

There is no right or wrong way to create a sandtray, and no artistic ability is needed. You remain in control of what you create, what you share, and the meaning you give it.

Sandtray therapy can create a gentle bridge between what you know and what you feel—offering space to see your story from a different perspective and discover possibilities that may be difficult to reach through conversation alone.

Sandtray therapy may be beneficial for:

• Anxiety, depression, stress, and burnout
• Trauma and painful past experiences
• Grief, loss, and unresolved sorrow
• Changes related to aging, menopause, or health
• Caregiving for children, grandchildren, partners, or aging parents
• Relationship concerns, separation, or divorce
• Empty-nest transitions and changing family roles
• Retirement, career changes, or questions about purpose
• Identity exploration and reconnecting with yourself
• Self-esteem, confidence, and self-acceptance
• Emotional regulation and expressing difficult feelings
• Family dynamics and intergenerational patterns
• People-pleasing, boundaries, and overresponsibility
• Understanding different parts of yourself
• Making meaning from life experiences
• Navigating uncertainty, change, and new beginnings