Introduction to Approaches

I use a variety of therapies because people change, grow, and heal in different ways. Some do best with expressive and experiential therapies, some with cognitive and behavioral approaches, some with integrative modalities, and many benefit from a blend of all three. You don't have to know ahead of time which will work for you. And if you already know what feels helpful, we can begin there. Alongside these approaches, I also offer Integrated Digital Therapy™ (IDT), a model I created to address the impact of technology on emotional health and daily life.
Insight-Oriented & Skills-Based Therapies
CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
CBT focuses on the connection among thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It helps you recognize patterns that keep you stuck and gives you tools to shift them. By challenging unhelpful thoughts and replacing them with balanced ones, people often find relief from anxiety, depression, and self-criticism.
What it might look like: If you tend to assume the worst, CBT can help you catch those thoughts, test them against reality, and respond in a healthier, more constructive way.
DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy)
DBT provides practical skills for managing emotions and building healthier relationships. It focuses on four core areas: emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness.
What it might look like: When emotions feel overpowering, DBT skills can help you find calm, stay present, and respond in ways that honor your needs and values.
Solutions Focused Therapy
Solutions Focused Therapy concentrates on what's working in your life and builds on your existing strengths and resources. Rather than focusing extensively on problems, it helps you identify and expand the solutions you're already using.
What it might look like: If you're struggling with anxiety but notice you feel calmer when you take walks, we'd explore how to use that insight and build on what's already helping you feel better.
Trauma-Informed & Integrative Modalities
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
If you've experienced trauma or find yourself reacting more strongly than you'd expect in certain situations, EMDR can help your brain process those experiences in a new way. Distressing memories often lose their intensity and stop interfering with daily life. EMDR can also help ease patterns of negative thinking by addressing the memories that keep those cycles going.
What it might look like: You might come in feeling triggered every time you drive past a certain intersection after an accident. Through EMDR, we'll help your brain reprocess that memory so you can drive that route without your body going into panic mode.
EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques / Tapping)
EFT combines gentle tapping on acupressure points while focusing on what's troubling you. It's often helpful for anxiety, cravings, or emotional blocks.
What it might look like: If you feel stuck in an emotional pattern, tapping can help release tension and bring a sense of relief and balance.
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy helps you access a deeply relaxed state that makes your mind more open to positive change. You remain in control the whole time. It can support sleep, ease chronic worry, reduce stress, and also help with building confidence, breaking old patterns, and integrating new, healthier, and more sustainable ones.
What it might look like: You may find it easier to rest, feel calmer in situations that once brought stress, or step into challenges with greater confidence. Hypnotherapy can help you internalize new patterns that support lasting change.
Reiki
Reiki is a gentle energy-healing practice, offered without physical touch, that promotes relaxation and supports your body's natural capacity to rebalance.
What it might look like: If you feel emotionally drained, physically tense, or blocked, Reiki can bring a sense of peace, grounding, and release in places where you've felt blocked.
Expressive & Experiential Therapies
Art Therapy
Art therapy lets you express and process feelings without having to find the right words. It's a non-verbal form of expression where the subconscious can become conscious. Research supports its effectiveness for trauma, anxiety, depression, and more. It can sometimes reach places that words alone can't, offering new understanding and relief where talk therapy might have taken longer to get there.
What it might look like: Sometimes there may be a directive, and as you look back at what you've created, you realize there's so much information about your current condition that you hadn't seen before. That new awareness can be deeply helpful, even if words were hard to find at first.
Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy
Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy combines the restorative presence of the natural world with creative expression. This might include movement, writing, or working with natural materials. Sometimes sessions take place outdoors, and other times we bring elements of nature, like stones, leaves, water, or clay, into the room.
What it might look like: You might create something symbolic with natural materials, or simply engage with the outdoors in a creative way. These experiences can open insights and emotional shifts that feel different from what happens in talk therapy.
SoulCollage®
SoulCollage® is a creative, intuitive process using images to explore different parts of yourself. It offers a safe, accessible way to surface inner perspectives and insights that words alone might not reach.
What it might look like: You might create a collage that represents the part that feels anxious, the part that feels strong, and the part that knows what you need. Seeing these parts visually can make patterns clearer than they might be in conversation alone.
Sand Tray
Sand Tray is an experiential process that helps to express what might be difficult to find words for. Using miniature figures and objects in sand, you create scenes representing your inner world—feelings, conflicts, or experiences too complex for words. The process often reveals patterns or emotions you didn't realize were there, giving your inner experience a physical form that can help you understand more about your feelings, emotions and behaviors.
What it might look like: You might place figures far apart, bury an object, or build barriers without fully knowing why.. The meaning often becomes clear as we look at it. There's no right or wrong, it’s all information and just what feels true to you in the moment.
Integrated Digital Therapy™ (IDT)
Integrated Digital Therapy™ (IDT) is an approach I created to address the impact of technology on emotional health, privacy, and daily life. It works on three levels: noticing and managing emotional triggers, protecting personal data from systems designed to capture your attention, and building digital literacy so you can make more intentional choices.
You don't need to be tech savvy. These are simple, practical steps anyone can use.
What it might look like: You may notice you're spending more time on your devices than you'd like, leaving less space for family, relationships, or rest. Sometimes a device becomes the go-to escape, for example, you need to have a hard conversation with a loved one, a child, or someone at work, and instead you find yourself reaching for your phone, distracting yourself with emails, news, or social media. In IDT, we begin with what's underneath those habits: the anxiety, depression, impulsivity, trauma, or shame that devices can mask but not heal. From there, we focus on taking back control of your data and reducing the ways platforms manipulate your feed. Finally, we turn to the design of these systems and build healthier digital patterns, so you feel calmer, more focused, and more in control of your time.
Closing Philosophy
Each of these therapies can be powerful on its own, and sometimes the most meaningful change comes from combining them. In our work together, we'll draw on the approaches that best support your growth, balance, and healing.












