Depth psychotherapy, Existentialism & Grief, & relational attachment for individuals & couples.

Something has shaken you emotionally, and you're struggling to find solid footing. It may have happened a very long time ago or just yesterday. Feelings of confusion, anger, sadness, or anxiety have been holding you back—this can be a very lonely place.

Psychotherapy helps couples and individuals repair and improve relationships while finding freedom, wholeness, connectedness, and purpose and meaning in life. I specialize in depth psychotherapy and grief counseling. Understanding early attachments, fulfillments, and traumas provides a framework for individuals and couples to heal and blossom in this space of existential reflection, acceptance, forgiveness, and rebirth.

You and/or your partner will discover a safe, non-judgmental holding space whether in person at my Winston-Salem office or virtually in North Carolina, Colorado, and Wisconsin via online telehealth. You are supported while you explore life's existential concerns, including freedom and responsibility, wholeness and connectedness, meaning and purpose, grief and loss.

The foundation of our work together includes questions such as "Who am I/Who are we?" "How do I/we make meaning out of suffering and loss?" "What is my/our place in the universe?" and "How do I/we respond to physical, spiritual, and relational responsibilities?"

Discovering the answers to these questions leads to less anxious and depressive symptoms, increased trust and togetherness, and mutual well-being after transitions, trauma, and loss.

Whether you are seeking individual or couples psychotherapy, you learn how to connect authentically with others and improve your relationships while finding meaning in life, accepting responsibilities, making choices, and reconstructing life after loss. We identify how your past impacts your today by addressing early attachments, fulfillments, and traumas.

I share my influences with you.

My work is heavily influenced by Western and Eastern philosophers, psychoanalysts, and practitioners: Carl G. Jung, Donald Winnicott, Maria von Franz, Polly Young-Eisendrath, Jean Shinoda Bolen; Irv Yalom, Viktor Frankl, Robert Niemeyer, Simone de Beauvoir, Angela Davis; Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Lou Andreas Salomé; the Buddha, Rumi, Thich Nhat Hanh, Mimi Kuo-Deemer.

There are so many beautiful minds! I am generous in making recommendations with clients!

Recognizing, you have the answers to your concerns.

I invite you to walk alongside me as your guide, while you explore your dreams, inhibitions, disappointments, unconscious fears and desires, choices, and purpose in life. In this compassionate space, you learn to discover your own answers and, thereby, reconstruct meaning in life, enhance personal cultivation, and improve personal and relational well-being.

As a couples therapist, I help you and your partner understand attachment styles and defense mechanisms, which can ultimately improve communication, increase intimacy, and realign your commitment to each other. Your tasks: Learning to speak for yourself, listen mindfully, and remain curious. Your achievements: Ability to talk respectfully about differences while reducing emotional activation and respecting each other’s subjectivity.

I am a Certified Dialogue Therapist for Couples—an evidence-based modality that seeks to identify and reduce a couple’s emotional entanglement, decrease active and passive aggression, and discover each other’s unconscious desires and needs. Dialogue Therapy helps couples learn how to negotiate conflict through understanding of the Self and the Other. We examine emotional response patterns developed in your family of origin and how they can arise when you feel threatened, misunderstood, or in crisis.

My work with couples has encouraged the healing of historic pain, reunited couples after separation and divorce, helped couples identify their attachment styles, and facilitated growth, respect, and understanding.

You can feel comfortable in my presence.

I am a Certified Thanatologist and Grief Professional who works with individuals and loved ones, as they face chronic and terminal illness such as Alzheimer’s, cancer, COPD, and HIV/AIDS. I am there to support you during end-of-life decision-making and your grief experience, including anticipatory grief, disenfranchised grief, cumulative grief, and prolonged grief.

I am privileged to observe my individual clients and couples come alive in this space of reflection, acceptance, forgiveness, and renewal.

I invite you to contact me for a 30-minute consultation, so we can learn more about one another.