Standard therapy sessions are approximately 50 minutes.The frequency of sessions depends on your needs, goals, and circumstances. Many clients begin with weekly sessions, while others may attend every other week or adjust frequency as therapy progresses.

My practice is primarily telehealth, allowing clients to attend therapy privately and conveniently from home.Telehealth can work particularly well for busy adults, parents, and couples who may otherwise have difficulty coordinating schedules and traveling to an office.Because psychotherapy licenses are issued by individual states, you must generally be physically located in a state where I am licensed at the time of your session.

The first session is primarily about getting to know you and understanding what brings you to therapy.We will discuss what has been happening recently, relevant history, important relationships, and what you hope might change.You do not need to prepare a perfect explanation or come in with clearly defined therapy goals. I will ask questions and help guide the conversation.The first session is also an opportunity for you to decide whether you feel comfortable working with me. A good therapeutic relationship is an important part of effective therapy.

Yes. Infertility and family building are areas of particular interest in my practice.I work with individuals and couples experiencing infertility, IVF and other fertility treatments, reproductive loss, decisions surrounding donor conception or gestational surrogacy, and the emotional and relationship challenges that can accompany trying to build a family.Therapy can also be helpful when partners are coping differently or disagreeing about what comes next.

Yes. My background in education, child development, foster care, and community mental health continues to inform the work I do with parents and families.I help parents better understand their children’s emotional and developmental needs, navigate challenging behavior, strengthen the parent-child relationship, establish appropriate boundaries, and work through differences in parenting approaches.Parenting work may take place individually, as part of couples therapy, or in family therapy depending on what would be most helpful.

Yes.You do not have to arrive at couples therapy already committed to a particular outcome.Sometimes the work involves strengthening and repairing a relationship. Other times, couples need a structured space to better understand what has happened and determine what each person wants moving forward.My role is not to pressure you toward staying together or separating. It is to help you communicate honestly, understand the relationship more clearly, and make thoughtful decisions.

That is completely okay.You do not need to know therapy terminology, know exactly what you want to talk about, or understand how the process works before you begin.You can simply start with what is happening in your life right now, and we will take it from there.