FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

I specialize in individual therapy for driven individuals whose lives look impressive from the outside and feel exhausting, hollow, or quietly painful from the inside. My approach integrates Somatic Experiencing®, EMDR, attachment-based therapy, and neuroscience-based skills. Here’s what makes this different from most therapy: we’re not adding coping strategies to a life that’s built on shaky ground. We’re repairing the foundation underneath it, your core neural pathways, emotional regulation patterns, and the beliefs about yourself that were installed before you were old enough to question them. So the life you’ve worked so hard to build can actually feel good to live inside, not just impressive to look at.

Most therapists don’t recognize the subconscious patterns behind people who’ve built impressive lives, or they understand achievement but miss the patterns driving it. I specialize in that specific intersection. I understand how early relational experiences teach us that achievement is safer than closeness , and how to address those patterns while honoring the brilliant strategies that got you here. I will never ask you to trade in your ambition. Your drive isn’t the problem. The exhausting, compulsive relationship to achievement , the one that keeps you performing your life instead of living it , that’s what we’ll address.

Therapy is clinical work focused on healing anxiety, trauma, relationship patterns, and experiences from the past. We work with the nervous system, emotional regulation, and the deeper patterns affecting your personal life.

Executive coaching is forward-focused work for people whose foundation feels relatively steady and who want support with leadership, decision-making, growth, money, capacity, or performance.

Both can involve meaningful internal work. The difference is where we begin and what the work is meant to support.

Traditional talk therapy often focuses on understanding problems through conversation and insight. Most of my clients have the insight.

My approach integrates EMDR therapy, Somatic Experiencing, and deeper pattern work to address what is happening beneath the surface. We work with both the mind and body so patterns that drive reactions, emotions, and relationships can begin to shift in a more meaningful and lasting way.

Yes. Many emotional patterns were formed earlier in life, often before we had the awareness or tools to change them.

Approaches like EMDR and Somatic Experiencing work with the brain and nervous system to process unresolved experiences and shift patterns that have been shaping reactions for years. As this happens, people often notice they respond differently without having to force it.

The honest answer: it depends on your history, your goals, and how your nervous system responds to the work. Some women notice meaningful shifts within months , the 3 AM anxiety quiets, the reactivity softens, they stop rehearsing conversations before they’ve happened. Others do deeper foundation work over a year or more because they’re addressing patterns that have been running since childhood. What I can tell you: my clients aren’t looking for band-aids. They want the kind of change where the marriage actually gets easier , not because they’ve learned another communication technique, but because their nervous system has genuinely updated its threat assessment.

EMDR therapy is an evidence-based approach that helps the brain process unresolved experiences. When something hasn’t been fully processed, it can continue to influence how you feel and respond long after it’s over.

It can be helpful to think of it like a kink in a hose. The system is designed to move and process naturally, but when something gets stuck, it can create tension or disruption. EMDR helps the brain process that experience so things can begin to flow again.

This often shows up in very real, everyday ways. For example, someone might carry ongoing tension in their shoulders without realizing it’s connected to taking on too much responsibility for others. Or they may notice their back going out during stressful periods, tied to a deeper sense of not feeling supported. Even when we understand these patterns logically, they can continue to repeat.

EMDR helps process what’s underneath those patterns so they no longer need to show up in the same way.

Somatic Experiencing is a therapeutic approach that focuses on how stress and past experiences are held in the body and nervous system. Rather than only talking about what’s happening, we pay attention to how it shows up physically and work with those patterns directly.

This can look different for each person. Some people notice a constant sense of tension in their shoulders or jaw that doesn’t fully go away, even when they try to relax. Others may feel a tightness in their chest in certain situations, or a sense of shutdown when they feel overwhelmed.

In our work, we slow down and begin to track those patterns in real time. As the nervous system starts to process what’s been held there, the body can begin to release tension and settle in a way that feels more natural and steady.

Yes. All therapy sessions are 90 minutes, which allows more time for focused EMDR and deeper processing than a traditional 50-minute session.

I also offer 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-day intensives for clients who want to work more deeply during a concentrated period of time.

This format can work especially well for executives, entrepreneurs, leaders, and other high-performing professionals with demanding schedules who want focused work without committing to months of weekly appointments.

Intensives may also be a good fit for people who want more time with one specific issue or who find that shorter weekly sessions interrupt the process too soon.

I hear this regularly. And it makes sense , most therapy isn’t designed for someone who can articulate her patterns with clinical precision but still can’t stop living them. Generic approaches tend to either focus on pathology (which feels wrong, because you’re high-functioning) or stay at the surface (which feels pointless, because you’ve already done the self-help reading). If previous therapy missed the fact that your perfectionism isn’t a productivity problem , it’s a connection response wearing professional clothing , or the therapist didn’t understand what it’s like to hold everything together while quietly falling apart, this will likely feel different.

Yes. I offer secure video sessions, and research consistently shows they’re just as effective as in-person work for the kind of therapy I do. Most of my clients are women with demanding professional lives who appreciate doing this work without adding a commute to an already full schedule.

Therapy sessions are 90 minutes and the investment is $500.

Sessions are available in person in Fort Worth or virtually across Texas. Therapy is private pay, and insurance is not accepted. A superbill may be available for clients who want to seek out-of-network reimbursement.