Therapy That Actually Helps

You won’t be lying on a couch, reliving your childhood for the next decade. Therapy with me is not about staying stuck in the past—it’s about understanding how the past shaped you so you can move forward. We’ll work in the here and now, with an eye toward where you want to go.

So many clients come to me after seeing therapists who just listened—politely, quietly—but didn’t actually help. Therapy isn’t just about being heard. It’s about being understood. It’s about receiving honest, compassionate feedback, and walking away with insight and tools that lead to real change.

I hear it all the time: “I just need some advice.” “Tell me what to do.” ​ But real therapy isn’t about handing you a script for your life. If advice alone could solve things, you’d already be there. Instead, therapy helps you reconnect with your own voice—your own values, your own clarity—so you can make decisions that truly align with who you are and what you want. Yes, I’ll offer guidance. Yes, I’ll teach practical, proven tools from approaches like CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) and REBT (Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy). But more importantly, I’ll help you evaluate what’s actually working for you—and what’s not.

You’re not broken. You don’t need to be fixed. You might just be exhausted from holding it all together. Or confused by patterns you can’t quite break. Or disconnected from who you really are beneath all the pressure, pain, or performance. ​ Therapy isn’t about making you into someone else—it’s about helping you reclaim who you’ve always been, beneath all the noise.

Especially for LGBTQ+ clients, therapy has too often been a space of discomfort—of subtle judgment, coded language, or feeling like you have to educate the person across from you. Not here. I specialize in LGBTQ+ individual and couples therapy because you deserve a space where you don’t have to explain, apologize, or defend who you are. This is a space of full affirmation, deep care, and real partnership.

It’s a process of uncovering, unlearning, and rebuilding. It’s a space for clarity, courage, and practical change. It’s where you come to be seen, supported, and strengthened—not just heard. ​ You won’t leave every session with all the answers. But over time, you will leave with something better: the confidence to trust yourself again.