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Who I work with
Who I work with
Between a rock and a hard place? Fearful of being alone and staying in a relationship that you know deep down is hurting you
Taking care of everyone else and regularly saying "I'm fine," not accepting help from others, but feeling like you have to carry the weight of the world all on your own
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: Terrified of raising kids the way you were raised, maybe choosing not to have kids to stop the epigenetics, or you have kids and you hate hearing your Mom or seeing your Dad come out in some of your parenting moments
Living a life that you worked really hard for, yet you're not proud of it, and are not enjoying life presently. It doesn't feel like your own dreams come true; it feels like you did it all for someone else who may not even be around to appreciate what you've accomplished and certainly isn't giving you the praise you longed for all these years.
Individuals with Disorganized Attachment from growing up in chaotic households: Feeling much too young for the adulting responsibilities of life, perhaps aware that you dissociate or are frequently triggered and sent into a whirlwind of flashbacks and nightmares of old memories, or perhaps the feeling in your body of something in the past is making you react much too big for the circumstances of your life today
Hypervigilant, highly sensitive persons: Convinced your nervous system is interpreting everything as dangerous, even though a small part of you knows you're safer now than you've ever been before in your home, work, and relationships
Adult Individual Therapy
Adult Individual Therapy
(22+ year-olds interested in therapy for themselves)
Specialties:
Specialties:
Attachment/Developmental/Relational Trauma/Complex PTSD, Situational Trauma/PTSD, Relationship Issues, Co-Dependency, Social Anxiety, Stress, Life Transitions, Feeling Stuck, Anxiety/Fears, Chronic Pain or Illness, Dissociation
What to expect in therapy:
What to expect in therapy:
Each session, and our work in general, will be organized in a way that is most catering to your felt-sense of safety within both our connection and your environment for living. I want to help you find your sense of empowerment to identify, seek, and truly flourish in relationships and in the structure of your life. We'll share leadership in setting our goals and in identifying the direction of our work in each session. I like to say, "I'll always have a Plan B for our sessions, but if you have a different Plan A, then we'll honor your more urgent need." My Plan B is to prepare you for and support you in the discovery and healing of painful roots of unhelpful patterns of relating to yourself and others in your present relationships.
We are able to schedule weekly 50-minute sessions, 80-minute sessions, or multi-hour intensive sessions.
Attachment Focused Couples Therapy
Attachment Focused Couples Therapy
What to expect in therapy:
What to expect in therapy:
In our work together, I combine the Gottman Method communication skills based in decades of research with powerful tools from attachment-based approaches—including How We Love (Yerkovich), PACT (Tatkin), and EFT (Sue Johnson). This means our focus isn’t just on communication skills, but on helping you feel deeply known, safe, and connected in your relationship.
We'll work collaboratively to truly see what is happening
Slow down the cycle.
Notice and interrupt painful patterns in real time, creating space for something new.Listen beneath the surface.
Tune into the subtle signals — body language, emotions, nervous system cues — that shape your connection or disconnection.Build new relational habits.
Through presence, repair, and practice, you will develop new ways of functioning within your relationship that leave both of you feeling safe, heard, known, and loved.
What to Expect in the first three sessions:
What to Expect in the first three sessions:
Session One: You’ll share your love story—what brought you together and what’s getting in the way now.
Session Two: I’ll explore each of your individual histories and attachment styles.
Session Three: We’ll bring it all together with a clear plan grounded in insight, care, and connection.
Whether you're looking to strengthen your bond or preparing for marriage, our work will help define the relationship you’re building and create the guardrails for lasting closeness.
I follow Stan Tatkin’s guidance: all sessions include both partners, and any communication happens with both of you present.
Session Options:
Session Options:
Standard Couples Sessions are 110 minutes long—long enough for both partners to feel heard, supported, and understood.
Shorter 80-minute sessions are available for couples who are to-the-point in their communication styles and prefer a more focused pace (we can adjust after the first session).
50-minute sessions are available for couples who cannot afford therapy without using their PPO benefits and need to seek reimbursement with a Superbill. We will be as efficient and effective with our time. Please understand that it will happen more often where we cannot attend to both partner's triggered wound in each session, which is why longer sessions are recommended for couples. We will likely take more weeks to reach your relational goals.
Extended Sessions (multi-hour sessions) are available for deeper work—offered in-person or via telehealth on select days.
*If you experience domestic violence in your relationship or one or both of you abuse drugs and/or alcohol, please continue your search for couples therapists who have the specializations that meet your current needs.
Why wait Months or Years When you can have Life-Changing healing in Days?
Available for individuals and couples
Available for individuals and couples
For individuals who feel waiting for the months of once-a-week, hour-long sessions is not an option or not ideal. There may be an event coming up (ex., birth of a child, family gathering, work presentation, wedding) that could be incredibly triggering, and you'd like to feel more prepared and confident in your ability to remain a functioning, authentic adult on that day. Perhaps you recently experienced a breakup, job loss, or other rejection or loss and feel the need to grieve and rebuild your self-esteem or Sense of Self before stepping forward into new jobs, communities, or relationships.
For some couples, it may feel incredibly powerful to have their Partner physically present during EMDR. With both individuals present together, we can spend time working through painful histories while also having creative, lived-in-the-moment experiences of something new, of trusting the person that you've invited to be closer than anyone before.
What to expect in therapy:
What to expect in therapy:
These intensives will likely integrate Somatic Attachment Work (DARe), EMDR, and Parts Work. My job is to ensure that nothing we do is too much for too long. The extended time will allow us to work with any blocks and protective strategies that initially keep us from identifying and attuning to the core wound that presently impacts too much of your life. Whether it is one or more, we'll be able to plan time to build up an internal sense of safety and with time confidence in your personal intuition in how to interpret and meet your own Parts' needs. We'll use our space, breathing techniques, and our imaginations to change the existing stories that limit your functioning in the world around you.
We will begin by identifying if we're working with a single event that occurred or a long history of recurring similar experiences that leave a pretty cemented view of Self, and schedule in the way that meets all of your needs best.
Cost of Therapy
Cost of Therapy
50 - minute sessions: $195 / 80 - minute sessions: $312 / 110 - minute sessions: $420 / 4-hour: $930 / Full-Day Intensive: $1700
Longer sessions are prorated
Sliding fee slots are possibly available
I am currently out-of-network for all insurances. Superbills are available for 90834 (50-minute), 90837 (60-minute), and 90847 (50-minute couples/family) sessions. I have Superbills automatically sent to Clients on the second of each month for Clients scheduled for these CPT codes, that you can submit to your insurance for reimbursement if you have a PPO plan. Superbills are not available for extended sessions and intensives since insurance doesn’t offer billing codes for sessions of a specific time frame after 53 minutes, and may reach out for a clawback.
I do not verify and cannot guarantee coverage or reimbursement. I'd like to encourage you to contact your insurance carrier with questions about your financial responsibility and what fees you can expect to be reimbursed.
When you call your insurance to clarify what your reimbursement rate will be, knowing what billing codes will be used can help them offer exact information:
90791 - All first sessions
90834 - 50-minute individual sessions
90837 - Individual sessions, 53-60 minute sessions
90847 - 50-minute couples session
Disclaimer: Upward Roots is not a crisis service. As such, neither the provider nor the services offered through this agency are available 24/7. If you are experiencing a crisis and/or in need of immediate support, please call 911 or 988 (National Suicide Prevention Hotline).
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