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Every person who walks through the door is dealing with something real.
Whether you are a parent worried about your child, a couple trying to find your way back to each other, a teenager overwhelmed by pressure, or an adult quietly carrying more than you want to admit — therapy works when it takes your specific situation seriously.
Who I Work With
Below is an overview of who I work with and what we can address together. If you are not sure whether what you are experiencing fits any of these descriptions, reach out anyway. We can figure that out in a first conversation.
Children · Ages 3-12
Children do not come to therapy and sit in a chair and talk about their feelings. That is not how children work. They show us what they are carrying through how they play, how they react, how they sleep, and how they relate to the people around them.
I work with young children through play therapy — a research-backed approach that uses creative play, storytelling, and expressive activities to help children process difficult experiences and develop emotional skills in a way that feels natural to them.
What brings parents to therapy:
Anxiety, fears, and excessive worry
Tantrums, emotional outbursts, and difficulty regulating feelings
Transitions — a new school, a new sibling, a move, divorce, or bereavement
Social difficulties and challenges making or keeping friends
Withdrawal, sadness, or a noticeable change in behavior
Adjustment difficulties following a stressful family event
Parents are closely involved throughout. The changes that last are the ones that happen at home, so I work with you as much as with your child.
Teens · Ages 13-18
Adolescence is genuinely hard. Teenagers are being asked to figure out who they are while simultaneously managing academic pressure, social dynamics, family expectations, and a brain that is still developing. When those pressures stack up without somewhere to put them, the results can look like anxiety, defiance, withdrawal, or a kind of low-grade misery that is hard to name.
I work with teens as their own people — not as problems to be managed or extensions of their parents. A teenager who feels genuinely heard in therapy will do the work. One who feels patronized will not.
What brings teens to therapy:
Anxiety and academic stress
Low mood, depression, and loss of motivation
Identity questions — including cultural, religious, and personal identity
Friendship and relationship difficulties
Conflict at home and family tension
Social media pressure and self-image
Big transitions: changing schools, leaving for college, navigating first relationships
I keep parents informed and involved at an appropriate level, while ensuring the teen has a space that genuinely belongs to them.
Adults · Individual Therapy
Most adults who come to therapy have been carrying something for longer than they should have. The step of actually making an appointment is often the hardest part.
Individual therapy with adults is the core of my practice. I work with people at all stages of life — young adults navigating early independence, mid-life adults managing careers, families, and aging parents simultaneously, and older adults facing questions of meaning and transition. Whatever the presenting concern, the work is about understanding yourself more clearly and developing a fuller sense of agency over your own life.
What brings adults to therapy:
Anxiety, panic, and worry that will not switch off
Depression, low mood, and a sense of disconnection from life
Stress — chronic, situational, or cumulative
Relationship difficulties with partners, family, or colleagues
Major life transitions: career change, relocation, divorce, loss, retirement
Cultural and identity questions — navigating between different worlds and sets of expectations
Questions of meaning, purpose, and direction
Burnout
Couples
Couples come to therapy at all kinds of moments — after a crisis, during a slow erosion of connection, before a major life decision, or simply because they want to invest in the relationship before things deteriorate. All of those are legitimate reasons to come.
My work with couples focuses on the patterns underneath the surface arguments. Most couples who are struggling are not fighting about what they think they are fighting about. There are usually older, deeper dynamics at play — around attachment, communication, unspoken expectations, and the different ways people learned to handle conflict and closeness growing up.
I work with married couples, engaged couples, and long-term partners. I also work with couples navigating particular cultural and religious dimensions of their relationship — including couples from different backgrounds, couples managing family pressure around marriage, and couples where faith plays a significant role in their values and expectations.
What brings couples to therapy:
Communication breakdown — conversations that escalate or never happen at all
Disconnection and growing distance
Conflict around parenting approaches
Navigating in-law and extended family dynamics
Cultural or religious differences between partners
Recovering from betrayal or breach of trust
Premarital counselling and preparing for marriage
Major transitions: a new baby, relocation, career change, loss
Families
Sometimes the difficulty belongs to the whole family rather than any one person in it. Conflict between siblings, tension between parents and teenagers, grief that has fractured a family's sense of itself — these are patterns that are best addressed together.
Family therapy looks at the relationships and dynamics in the room, not just the individuals. My goal is not to assign blame but to help families understand the patterns they are stuck in and find a way through them together.
I have particular experience working with families navigating cultural and intergenerational tensions — where parents and children are operating from genuinely different reference points, where immigration has created distance between what parents know and what children are living, and where the expectations of extended family are a real and active presence in the household.
What brings families to therapy:
Conflicts over competing value systems and behavioral expectations
Transitions — serious illness, job loss, divorce, or bereavement
Coping difficulties following a stressful family event
What We Can Work On
The following are areas I address regularly in my practice. If you are searching for support with something specific, this section is for you.
Anxiety and stress
Including generalized anxiety, social anxiety, health anxiety, panic, and the chronic low-level tension that comes from managing too much for too long.
Depression and low mood
The kind that drains color from ordinary life, makes getting through the day feel effortful, and disconnects you from the people and things that usually matter to you.
Childhood behavioral challenges
When children can't find the words for what they're feeling, it often shows up as defiance, meltdowns, withdrawal, or behavior that leaves the whole family stretched — therapy helps uncover what's underneath and restore calm at home.
Life transitions
Any significant change that disrupts your sense of who you are or what your life is: a new job or the loss of one, a move, a marriage, a divorce, a bereavement, retirement, a child leaving home.
Neurodiversity among children and adults
Whether it's ADHD, autism, sensory sensitivities, or a mind that has simply never worked the way the world expects — therapy starts from the belief that different is not broken, and focuses on building self-understanding, psycho-education around support and practical strategies.
Cultural identity and bicultural experience
Navigating the space between two cultures, two sets of expectations, or two versions of who you are supposed to be. This is one of the areas I find most meaningful to work in. It is rarely spoken about as a legitimate source of stress, and it absolutely is.
Faith and mental health
Questions about how your spiritual and religious life intersects with your psychological experience. Whether faith is a source of strength, a source of conflict, or both, it deserves to be part of the conversation if it is part of your life.
Immigration, acculturation, and diaspora stress
The invisible weight of building a life somewhere new, the grief of what has been left behind, the pressure of navigating systems and expectations that were not designed for you, and the particular complexity of raising children between cultures.
Parenting challenges
The relentless, loving, exhausting work of raising a child. Parenting support can focus on a specific child's behavior or needs, on the relationship between the parents themselves, or simply on the question of what kind of parent you want to be and how to get closer to that.
Relationship difficulties
Patterns of conflict, disconnection, or miscommunication in any significant relationship. This includes not only couples, but also the relationships with parents, siblings, and close friends that shape who we are.
Grief and loss
Bereavement, but also the other losses that do not come with a ritual or a name: the end of a relationship, a miscarriage, a friendship, a version of yourself you had to leave behind.
Ready to Take the Next Step?
Starting therapy is a significant decision. If you are not sure whether now is the right time, or whether this practice is the right fit, the best thing to do is to get in touch. A free 15-minute introductory will give you far more information than a website can.