Therapy for when you’re tired of holding everything together.
Depth-oriented, trauma-informed therapy for adults and teens navigating trauma, eating and body-image concerns, anxiety, ADHD, and perfectionism—so you can move beyond survival patterns and create meaningful, lasting change.
In-person in Cumming and Sandy Springs · Telehealth throughout Georgia.
These are often the places where the block becomes visible. The work draws from cognitive, behavioral, relational, and body-based approaches, but it begins with close attention to what is actually happening—not with fitting your experience into a predetermined method.
You may understand the pattern, know where it began, and recognize it while it is happening—yet still find yourself repeating it.
That is not a failure of insight or effort. It usually means the response is being maintained somewhere reasoning alone cannot reach: in emotion, physical reaction, relationship expectations, or habits that once served an important purpose.
Therapy begins by determining what keeps the pattern in place. Only then can we decide what may actually change it.
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY INTENSIVES
When did so much of your life become a measure of your worth?
And when did your own needs become something to attend to only after everyone else is satisfied?
“I’ll keep the peace just this once.” “I should be able to manage this without help.” Small, reasonable explanations can obscure a larger pattern of self-abandonment. An individual intensive offers dedicated time to examine how these habits developed—and how they intersect with perfectionism, relentless self-criticism, intrusive thoughts, ADHD, eating concerns, or trauma.
For new and established adult clients. In person in Cumming and Sandy Springs, and by telehealth throughout Georgia.
A CONSIDERED APPROACH
A useful therapy should be intelligent enough to respect complexity and practical enough to change daily life.
The patterns that create difficulty now often began as effective responses to earlier circumstances. Perfectionism can create order. Control can reduce uncertainty. Pleasing other people can protect against conflict or rejection. These responses are understandable, even when they eventually become restrictive.
The work is not to condemn or abruptly remove them. It is to understand what they accomplish, what continues to reinforce them, and what would make another response possible.
Depending on the problem, treatment may draw from cognitive and dialectical behavioral therapies, including RO DBT-informed principles, as well as somatic therapy, breathwork, and mindfulness. Methods are selected for their usefulness, not imposed as a fixed program.
I work with clients ages 11 and older, as well as couples and families. Sessions are available in Cumming, Sandy Springs, and by telehealth throughout Georgia.