You may have been told that what you're experiencing is anxiety. Or depression. Or both. You may have tried medication, read the books, downloaded the apps — and still find yourself caught in the same cycles, wondering why nothing seems to stick.

A diagnosis can name what you're feeling. It rarely explains why.

Many people who struggle with anxiety, depression, or persistent mood difficulties arrive in therapy already exhausted from managing — white-knuckling through days, holding themselves together in public while quietly falling apart in private. The symptoms are real and often debilitating. But beneath them, there is almost always something more specific: a story, a pattern, a set of experiences that have never been fully understood.

Anxiety is not just worry. It is often the psyche's way of signaling that something important is being avoided, unfelt, or unresolved. Depression is not just sadness. It can be grief that has nowhere to go, anger turned inward, or a self that has gone quiet after years of not being fully seen. Mood difficulties are not random misfirings. They are often deeply connected to how we learned to manage our inner world — and our relationships — long before we had words for any of it.

My work is tailored entirely to you — not to a diagnosis or a symptom checklist. Rather than focusing solely on managing what you feel, we work to understand what your symptoms are trying to communicate. Over time, that understanding creates room for something more lasting than relief — a different relationship with yourself, with your emotions, and with the people who matter most to you.

I hold a non-pathologizing, non-shaming stance. Your symptoms are not evidence of weakness or disorder. They are meaningful. And they deserve to be understood, not just managed.