The Practice of Humaning
People come to therapy for many reasons.
Sometimes anxiety is narrowing their life, relationships are difficult, work is exhausting, loneliness has settled in, or a sense of purpose and joy have become hard to find.
Sometimes suffering becomes severe, persistent, complex, life-disrupting or even life-threatening.
Often, those categories overlap.
Being human can be painful, confusing, repetitive, and extraordinarily difficult. Normalizing that suffering doesn't have to mean minimizing it.
Humaning Psychotherapy was created to hold both truths: what you are experiencing is very human, and it deserves to be taken very seriously.
Therapy can be a place to understand what is happening, develop new capacities, confront what has become limiting, and make your life better.
It just takes practice.
Areas of Focus
Therapy for persistent worry, low mood, self-criticism, avoidance, loss of motivation, emotional exhaustion, or feeling trapped in patterns that make life smaller.
Relationships and Loneliness
A place to explore conflict, disconnection, boundaries, recurring relationship patterns, painful endings, isolation, and the desire for closer or more fulfilling relationships with others.
Psychotherapy for workplace pressure, exhaustion, difficult professional relationships, career uncertainty, overwork, and the struggle to balance financial realities with health, relationships, and the rest of life.
Life Changes, Identity, and Purpose
Support through transitions, difficult decisions, changes in identity, or periods when the direction and meaning that once organized your life no longer seem to fit. Space to grieve, and space to decide what's next.
Treatment-Resistant Depression
Depression that has persisted despite previous treatments, perhaps a host of other psychotherapists, psychiatric medications, residential care or hospitalization, or major interventions like TMS, ECT.
Treatment resistant doesn't mean you have failed. It means you are still trying.
Suicidal Thoughts and Chronic Suicidality
Wanting to die is understandable when you are in intense suffering.
I have come to understand that the suicidal thoughts often come from a compassionate place within you: the part of you that wants the pain to stop and doesn't know any other way.
But you are here because a part of you knows it can stop:
Maybe you've felt better in the past.
Maybe it was just for a moment
Maybe you know others like you who have found relief.
You might not feel hopeful, but being here, reading these words is an act of hope. I'm here to help steward that small ember into a warmer, gentler life.
Or a fire in your belly.
Trauma and PTSD
Therapy for processing your traumatic memories, facing your triggers, heart-racing, eye-darting hypervigilance and anxiety, self-blaming shame, emotional disconnection, numbness and isolation.
OCD and Intrusive Thoughts
Evidence-based treatment for obsessive ruminations that keep you up at night, distract you from your life, compulsions that keep you repeating the same thing even though you desparately want to stop, disturbing intrusive thoughts, and terrifying uncertainty that no amount of checking, reassurance, or analysis seems to resolve.
Chronic Pain
Psychotherapy for the emotional and practical costs of living in persistent pain, and for building a more mindful, values-aligned life that's worth it.
Ketamine Therapy
Psychotherapy before, during, and after ketamine treatment, including preparation, therapeutic support during sessions at your home virtually or at collaborating clinics, and integration afterward.
