Specialties

You feel everything — other people's moods, the energy in a room, the unspoken tension no one else seems to notice. This sensitivity is a genuine gift. It's also one that was likely never named, honored, or taught to you as something to work with rather than manage or suppress.

We'll work to reclaim your sensitivity as the intelligence it actually is — while releasing the patterns of self-abandonment, emotional overwhelm, and compulsive caretaking that developed in its shadow.

• People-pleasing, fawning, and chronic self-abandonment
• Codependency and enmeshment in relationships
• Emotional overwhelm and difficulty with boundaries
• Burnout in healers, helpers, and caregivers
• Support for spiritual practitioners seeking grounded, trauma-informed care

Trauma doesn't just live in memory. It lives in the body, in the nervous system, in the parts of you that are still braced for impact even when the threat is long gone. It lives in the shadow — in the pieces of experience that were too overwhelming to integrate at the time and have been operating beneath the surface ever since.

Using EMDR, IFS, and somatic approaches, we work with trauma at the level where it actually lives — not just cognitively, but somatically, relationally, and symbolically.

• Complex trauma and PTSD
• Childhood abuse — physical, emotional, sexual, psychological
• Emotional neglect and attachment wounds
• Intergenerational and ancestral trauma
• Reclaiming the parts of self lost to traumatic adaptation

This is the work most therapy doesn't name — and the work that often makes the most difference.

The shadow is not your darkness. It is everything you were taught to hide, deny, or disown: the anger that felt too dangerous, the grief that had no witness, the ambition that felt selfish, the need that felt shameful, the self that felt like too much — or not enough.

In Jungian depth psychology, shadow integration is the practice of turning toward what we've turned away from, with curiosity instead of judgment. When we stop spending energy keeping parts of ourselves at bay, that energy becomes available for creativity, intimacy, and authentic living.

• Reclaiming disowned emotions — rage, grief, desire, longing, fear
• Working with the inner critic and shame-based self-concept
• Archetypal and symbolic exploration of recurring life patterns
• Dream work and the language of the unconscious
• Integrating "too much" and "not enough" narratives from family of origin
• Exiting the performing self and meeting the authentic one

If you've been in a relationship — romantic, familial, or professional — with someone who consistently distorted your reality, you know how disorienting the aftermath can be. You may question your own perceptions, struggle to trust yourself, or find yourself oscillating between missing them and knowing you needed to leave.

This is not weakness. This is the predictable result of sustained psychological manipulation. And it is healable.

We'll work to restore your reality testing, rebuild your sense of self, and understand the deeper relational patterns — often rooted in early attachment — that made you vulnerable to this dynamic in the first place. Not to assign blame, but to reclaim your discernment.

• Recovery from narcissistic abuse in romantic, family, and professional relationships
• Rebuilding self-trust and reality testing after gaslighting
• Navigating no-contact and estrangement decisions
• Understanding attachment patterns that draw us toward familiar wounds
• Grief and anger in the aftermath of toxic relationships

There is a kind of depression that is not merely a chemical imbalance — it is a crisis of meaning. A signal from the deeper self that the life being lived is no longer aligned with who you actually are. Jung called it the psyche's attempt to correct its own course.

This doesn't mean medication is never appropriate. It means that sometimes, what looks like pathology is actually initiation — a Dark Night of the Soul that, if met with the right support, becomes the threshold of profound transformation.

• Depression and loss of meaning
• Existential crisis and identity dissolution
• Dark Night of the Soul experiences
• Spiritual emergency and overwhelming awakening experiences
• Wounding from religious or spiritual communities
• Post-traumatic growth and the search for what comes next

Our earliest relationships become the template through which we experience all others. When those early relationships were inconsistent, unsafe, or conditional, we develop strategies for connection that once made sense — and now get in the way.

We'll explore the relational patterns operating beneath your conscious awareness, understand their origins with compassion rather than blame, and begin building new ways of showing up in relationship — with others, and with yourself.

• Insecure attachment and relational anxiety
• Chronic conflict, emotional distance, or disconnection in relationships
• Learning to receive care, not just give it
• Navigating difficult family systems
• Building relationships that don't require you to disappear

Some of the most disorienting moments in life are not crises in the traditional sense — they are thresholds. Times when who you've been no longer fits, and who you're becoming isn't yet clear.

These liminal spaces — between identities, roles, relationships, or chapters — are some of the most fertile ground for depth work. The question is not just what should I do next? It is who am I, underneath everything I've been performing?

• Life stage transitions and identity reconstruction
• Career dissatisfaction and life purpose exploration
• Navigating major life changes — divorce, loss, relocation, reinvention
• Cultural identity, belonging, and the experience of Third Culture Kids
• Clarifying direction when everything feels uncertain

For those whose healing has always felt like more than symptom reduction — who sense that their psychological work and their spiritual life are part of the same unfolding — this is a space that can hold both.

We work at the intersection of depth psychology and transpersonal experience, honoring the full spectrum of what it means to be human: embodied and ensouled, wounded and wise, finite and reaching toward something larger.

• Spiritual growth and conscious living
• Exploring meaning, purpose, and connection to self, nature, and the sacred
• Integration of peak, mystical, or non-ordinary experiences
• Post-traumatic growth and the expansion beyond survival
• Nature-based and ecopsychological healing (in-person, Raleigh-Durham area)