About

Reconnecting With Who You Are

I see therapy as a space to listen and connect to what is unfolding within us. When we attend to our inner experience, we often rediscover parts of ourselves that have been overlooked or pushed aside. Through this process, we can begin to restore a deeper sense of who we are and what matters within our lives.

In this sense, the experiences we bring to therapy function less like problems to diagnose or eliminate, and more like doorways we can enter. By taking a step inward, we can come back into contact with who we are beneath the pressures and patterns we seek to understand or change.

How I Work

My approach to therapy is contemporary, integrative, and responsive to each client. I work flexibly while anchoring my practice in an existential and humanistic framework. This way of working emphasizes authenticity, relationship, and lived experience. Difficult emotions are met with curiosity rather than judgment. Insight is not treated as an endpoint, but as something that can be embodied and integrated over time. While this work is oriented toward meaning and self-understanding, it is also grounded in addressing the real difficulties you may be facing, such as anxiety, emotional overwhelm, or patterns that feel hard to change. The aim is to support you in living more authentically—aligning your actions with your values and cultivating a more present, connected way of being in the world.

What Shapes My Work

My path to becoming a therapist has been shaped by both formal training and lived experience. Long-term contemplative practice, creative work, personal loss, and periods of uncertainty have all influenced how I understand suffering, resilience, and growth.

Earlier chapters of my life were rooted in technology, art, music, and photography, as well as decades spent exploring philosophical and contemplative traditions. These experiences taught me that meaningful change rarely comes from force or quick answers. More often, it emerges through a willingness to stay open to the possibilities within our lives.

Training & Professional Context

I am a Professional Counselor Associate registered with the Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists. My training is grounded in existential–humanistic therapy and informed by existential philosophy and phenomenology, neuroscience, psychodynamic thought, mindfulness-based approaches, cognitive-behavioral frameworks, and contemporary psychology.

An Invitation

If you are looking for a grounded space to explore your inner life with care and depth, I invite you to reach out. Therapy does not require a crisis. Often, it begins with a recognition that something within is asking to be heard.

For those who would like to explore further, visit my blog and podcast, The Existential Lens, where I share reflections at the intersection of philosophy, therapy, and the human experience.