Ironwood Counseling

Through a collaborative and compassionate approach, I work to create a safe space where you can feel heard, understood, and validated. My goal is to help clients achieve their goals, improve their relationships, and enhance their overall well-being and quality of life. 

We often look to the past to identify our core beliefs that guide our decision making, priorities, and how we see the world. This is how we learn to what degree the world is a safe place for us. If you think of “home” as the people you love most, then we also learn to what degree our “home people” are safe for us. Can we be emotionally vulnerable with them or do we need to protect ourselves from shaming statements, emotionally unregulated parents or caregivers, or worse? 

We look to our early experiences because we have been learning these “core beliefs” about ourselves and the world since we were born and we are designed to continue to “update” our understanding as we receive new information. However, sometimes, like a record can skip, we stop updating our view with new information. In other words, we become stuck. For instance, sometimes we stop integrating most new information about “significant others” in our mid-teens or early twenties. It could be a particularly painful experience, culmination of painful experiences, or even new information that we didn’t know how to process. One way that can show up in our lives is when we learn something about someone or the world in general that doesn’t “go with” what, or who, we thought we knew.

I specialize in attachment, Adult ADD/ADHD, relationship difficulties, life transitions, anxiety, and trauma. I approach therapy from a curious, inclusive and empowering, systems perspective where nothing exists in a vacuum. I utilize evidence-based techniques to help reduce suffering. Successful therapy happens incrementally and by the engagement of both the therapist and the client. You can expect to discover more about who you are, what you are needing, and how to let go of things that no longer serve you.