After many years as a psychotherapist working with adults, I’ve learned the best therapy is whatever encourages my clients to be curious about themselves and motivated to change what they really want to change while embracing what doesn’t need to change at all. Therapy is more than fixing a problem – though that can happen too. It is a process of learning how we manage our world, and how our habits, thought processes, early family lives, and current environments impact our everyday emotions and actions. Good therapy involves thinking about difficult questions in order to address complex problems, in a safe environment with a respectful and collaborative listener. My approach is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Humanistic, client-centered. I am less focused on the diagnosis and more on how one’s usual ways of coping with life’s curves are no longer working. This leads to a strength-based approach to making progress.

Whether you are looking to work on anxiety, stress, family or relationship issues, work problems, trauma, sleep disorders, depression, or chronic illness – psychotherapy is a process that can help, and I will be happy to join you on that journey.

PhD - Clinical Psychology, West Virginia University

DC PSY200001329

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I travel, sing in a choir, bake, watch movies, and talk about movies. I also love exploring the lesser-known parts of Washington DC, such as the Exorcist stairs and spy dropoffs.

I like to re-read A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. It's an account of his poorly planned attempt to hike the Appalachian Trail with an even more inadequately prepared travel companion. His awe of nature, appreciation of history, and unstoppable humor always captivate me. I love his bursts of resilience, as well as his knowing the right time to give up.

Like many others, I find being in nature is the best to gain new perspectives and the strength to deal with whatever has to be dealt with. Woods and water during the day and stars at night.