The work
beneath
the work.

What this is

Clinical therapy is a different relationship than coaching or consulting — slower, deeper, aimed at the structures that shape how you function across your whole life, not just in performance contexts. My clinical orientation is theoretically pluralistic — drawing from modern psychoanalytic thinking, self-psychology, cognitive-behavioral, ACT, and existential approaches. The question is never which school is correct. It is what this person, in this context, actually needs.

The clinical work spans a full range of presentation: adjustment difficulties, identity questions, clinical depression, anxiety disorders, OCD, trauma and PTSD, personality structure, dissociation, and substance use. The presenting problem determines the approach — not a predetermined method applied uniformly. If you're wondering whether what you're experiencing is serious enough to warrant this kind of work, that question is usually the signal that it is.

We work with what surfaces in the room — not just what you report, but how you relate, what you avoid, and what the pattern of the work itself reveals over time. The aim isn't to feel better in the short term. It's to change something that has been operating the same way for a long time — and to understand why it was there in the first place.

Where this work tends to matter

High-performing individuals who are functioning well by every external measure — and who know something is getting in the way. Not in their performance specifically, but in their sense of who they are and what the work means. Particularly suited for those navigating identity transitions: athletes moving through career change, executives facing questions of meaning and purpose, professionals whose outer success and inner experience have quietly diverged.

Also those whose primary concern is relational — patterns in intimate relationships, family systems, and close friendships that repeat regardless of how clearly they're understood. The same argument. The same distance. The same arc. Early attachment experiences that shaped how closeness, conflict, and vulnerability get navigated — and that now run every significant relationship in adult life without being recognized as the source.

Trauma — including developmental, relational, and the quieter forms that don’t announce themselves as such — is a significant part of the clinical work. As is substance use and the behavioral patterns that have become the primary way of managing what hasn’t yet been processed.

PhD in Kinesiology / Sport & Exercise Psychology.