Before therapy, I was an engineer at NASA.
I see individuals, couples, and families who are ready to stop just surviving and start truly living.
Ready to stop surviving, ready to start living.
People who want change. Some are pretty sure what they want to change; others arrive only knowing that something isn't right.
They come to me with anxiety, depression, trauma, or experiencing the weight of a major life transition—often feeling stuck, disconnected, or unsure of who they are anymore.
My path to therapy is a little unconventional—I'm a former NASA engineer. That background taught me how to solve problems with precision and creativity, and I bring that same mindset to my work with clients. Together, we'll make sense of what's keeping you stuck and build useful tools to help you move forward.
Two halves of the same work.
Practical tools you can use today AND a real look at where the patterns came from. Both halves matter equally.
For the practical side, I work from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Skills-based tools that interrupt the patterns that aren't serving you and help build new ones that do.
For the deeper side, I work psychodynamically and with an attachment lens. That's the slower work of understanding where the patterns came from. Childhood, family of origin, early relationships. The point is for the insight to actually free you, not just inform you.
Neither half alone holds. Tools without insight feel like coping. Insight without tools stays in your head. I do both in the same hour, weighted to what you bring on any given day.
I'm not interested in keeping you in therapy forever. The aim is for you to understand yourself well enough to keep doing the work without me.
Raising a family shaped this work, too.
The most important part of my life has been raising a family. It's the ground all of this stands on.
Before any of the degrees and well after the licenses came through, the most important part of my life has been raising a family. Partnership, parenting, the long arc of family life. That's the ground everything else stands on.
It changes how I show up in the room. The patterns we work on together aren't textbook abstractions to me. When you describe a conflict cycle, a parenting bind, or a stretch of grief inside a marriage, I'm not learning the territory for the first time. That doesn't make me an authority on your life. It does mean I take the everyday stuff of family life seriously, as the real work that it is.
The paperwork behind the work.
Two graduate degrees, a primary license in Oregon, and additional licenses in four other states. The Oregon license is the one that matters for in-network insurance billing.
- MA, Marriage and Family Therapy, Antioch University Seattle
- MS, Mechanical Engineering
- Oregon, LMFT — T1297 (primary; in-network billing)
- Washington, LMFT — LF60217940
- Arizona, LMFT — LMFT-15660
- Georgia, LMFT — 001361
- Florida, LMFT — MT2746
Eighteen years. Most of it in private practice.
Something in you is already reaching toward change. You don't have to have it all figured out to take the first step. You just have to be willing to show up—together we'll collaborate to set and meet goals to fulfill your life's purpose.
The specific work I do most.
Anxiety therapy
Practical anxiety therapy for adults whose minds won't stop spinning.
Read moreDepression therapy
Depression therapy for adults who want to understand what's underneath the tiredness.
Read moreIndividual therapy
One-to-one therapy across Oregon. The largest part of my practice.
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Want to talk it through? Let's see if we're a fit.
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