Brian

I offer therapy for adult individuals and couples, ages 18 – 65.

Individual therapy

Has a major life transition—like becoming a parent—stirred up more fear than you expected?

I offer trauma-informed therapy for adults navigating anxiety, postpartum anxiety, overwhelm, life transitions, and relationship challenges.

If you’re a new parent, you love your child deeply and want to be steady for them. Yet inside you might feel on edge, bracing for something to go wrong. Your mind races with worries about whether you’re doing things “right.” You may find yourself overthinking decisions, researching endlessly, or feeling a constant pressure to stay ahead of every possible problem.

Even when things look fine on the outside, something inside still feels unsettled.

You might notice yourself becoming more overwhelmed than usual. The strategies that once worked—pushing through and handling everything yourself—don’t seem to help the way they used to. You may feel more irritable, mentally exhausted, or emotionally distant from the people you care about.

For many new parents, this stage of life also brings something unexpected: old family patterns start resurfacing.

You may notice memories or feelings from your own childhood appearing in ways they never did before. Perhaps you’re realizing that the way you were parented shaped you more deeply than you once understood. Maybe you’re trying very intentionally to do things differently than your parents did, yet you sometimes feel pulled toward the same patterns of coping and relating that you grew up with.

At times, a quiet worry may show up in the background:

What if my child ends up struggling the way I did?

Whether your anxiety has been stirred up by becoming a new parent —or by something else happening in your life, you don’t have to navigate it alone.

Many people who come to therapy want something different for themselves and for the people they love.

They want to feel calmer in their own mind.
They want to trust themselves more.
They want their relationships to feel more connected and secure.
And if they’re parents, they want their child to grow up feeling deeply supported and understood.

Therapy can be a place where we slow down and make sense of what’s happening beneath the surface—both the anxiety you’re experiencing now and the earlier experiences that shaped how you respond to stress and relationships.

As we work together, many people find they begin to feel more grounded, more emotionally steady, and more confident in how they show up for the people who matter most.

Would you like some help getting through this anxious or overwhelming season of life?

If so, feel free to send me an email to schedule an introduction call or ask any questions. I’d be glad to help.

Couples therapy

Are you looking for couples therapy with your sweetheart, babe, other half, or main squeeze? Do you feel like you used to have a solid connection with your person… but find that these days, you are feeling really stuck? 

Maybe issues impacting the relationship get swept under the rug. Or, the way you both argue is exhausting — it spirals with each of you repeating your familiar positions and neither of you are feeling heard. 

When I work with couples, they often are committed to the relationship but are missing that sense of deep connection and “we-ness” — and both people are longing to find more of that togetherness with each other.

You and your partner might even recognize that you keep having the “same fight” over and over again; and you know that both of you play some part in this dance of disconnection, but are lost about how to create a new dance together. 

And it all leaves you feeling desperate to be able to resolve these issues. 

You want for each of you to own your part in the disconnection, so that you can:

– have conversations about how to feel closer to each other

– rebuild trust through repairing fresh and old hurts

– hold fears together 

– find a sexual connection and intimacy that feels fulfilling for both of you

– and regain that sense of partnership and playfulness that you used to have

You want to feel like your special person has your back and will be there for you when you need them; and also that they feel secure to turn to you as well.  

Maybe its time to bring in an outside perspective, from someone who deeply understands relationships — and can understand both of your perspectives. 

Do you want help to take your relationship to a new level of connection?

How I help

You might benefit from Emotionally Focused Therapy, a humanistic type of therapy that helps people to increase awareness about their relational patterns and find balance in connecting deeper with their emotions. This approach draws from the science of attachment and bonding to help people better understand themselves, their emotions, and their connections.

Together, we can create a safe relationship where you can explore the things that are bothering you both past and present.

I can help you clarify stuck patterns in your life. And over time, find more and more relief from the stuckness — feeling the balance and connection you are craving. 

Of course, people are diverse and so I always look to find what approach fits for each individual person. The beginning 3-4 sessions help us do that and find the direction to go in together. I strive to create an inviting and open atmosphere, where we can address issues at your pace.

It’s also very important to me that people can show up fully as themselves with me, which is why I am curious about diversity and celebrate it! The world is a much better place when we can make room for our differences.

Over time as we work together, we get to the deeper roots of what is causing this stuckness and that creates a path for connection, healing, and generally more flexibility in life.

We can start to move through emotions — instead of being overwhelmed by them, or running from them, hoping they just go away.

When this happens, people often talk about feeling emotionally “lighter” — feeling more confidence in both themselves, and their bonds with others.

Reach out to me if any of what I have mentioned sounds like it could be helpful to you. I’d love to get to know you more and see if you’d enjoy working with me!
I offer a free 20 minute introduction to help us see if we would like to schedule a first visit.