My story
A life shaped by multiple worlds
I didn't come to therapy through a single straight path. I came through corporate boardrooms, church pulpits, trauma healing circles, and the quiet, sacred space of a counseling room. Each world shaped who I am as a clinician and as a human being.
I spent years in the corporate world — building the kind of analytical sharpness, emotional intelligence, and organizational fluency that most therapists never develop. That background means I understand the pressure you carry, the language you speak, and the way high-achieving people often intellectualize pain instead of feeling it.
As a former church minister and pastoral counselor, I learned to sit with people in their deepest grief, their most profound questions, and their most honest moments. That work taught me that healing is never just cognitive — it is spiritual, relational, and embodied.
Today, I bring all of it into the therapy room: the rigor of evidence-based training, the warmth of pastoral care, the sharpness of a corporate mind, and the attunement of someone who has spent decades learning how human beings connect, rupture, and repair.
My approach
Evidence-based. Emotionally attuned. Culturally alive.
Most therapists are trained in one or two modalities. I have spent years accumulating the deepest possible expertise across multiple evidence-based approaches — not to be impressive, but because every person who walks through my door deserves a therapist who can meet them exactly where they are.
At the core of my work is Emotionally Focused Therapy — the most research-validated approach to couples and family therapy in the world, with a 70–75% recovery rate for distressed couples. But EFT alone is never the whole story.
I integrate trauma-informed care, Gottman methods, Brainspotting, and existential frameworks to treat the whole person — not just the presenting problem. And I bring a rare multicultural fluency, having lived and worked across multiple cultures, that allows me to hold the complexity of identity, family systems, and relational dynamics with genuine sensitivity.
