Gestalt therapy is a type of psychotherapy that emphasizes awareness, experience, and the “here and now.” It focuses on understanding the whole person {mind, body, emotions, and behaviors} and how these aspects interact with your environment, rather than just analyzing individual symptoms or past events.

Often, we can get stuck in the “why,” “should,” or the stories we tell ourselves, leaving us feeling spiraled or like detectives of our past. While there is a place for reflection, Gestalt therapy takes an integrative approach, helping to weave your parts into a sense of wholeness and offering agency and choice in your awareness. From this place, change emerges naturally, rather than through trying to “fix” yourself. Gestalt therapy invites exploration, curiosity, and experimentation—creating space for you to connect more fully with yourself and your life.

Healing is a relational process, and together we create a safe and supportive container for you to invite in your parts when they feel ready and safe to be expressed and explored. Wholeness is not something you have to earn or work towards; it is something you already are. With awarness and authentic contact we deepen into what is.

In our work together, I may invite you into what I call Gestalt experiments—creative, experiential practices designed to help you connect more deeply with your experience in the here and now. Everything in therapy is offered as an invitation, and as a consent-based practitioner, your choice is central: you get to practice saying your “no” and embodying your “yes.”

Gestalt experiments are not about performing or getting it “right.” They are opportunities to try on new ways of being, explore parts of yourself, and deepen contact with what is alive for you in the moment.

Experiment might be:

Gestalt Empty Chair Work:

Gestalt chair work is a therapeutic technique that uses chairs as tools for dialogue and exploration. In this practice, you might move between chairs to voice different parts of yourself, perspectives, or internal conflicts, creating a dynamic conversation that brings awareness to what’s alive in the moment. Chair work can help you explore emotions, clarify needs, practice boundaries, or experiment with new ways of relating.

Parts work

Parts work is a therapeutic approach that helps you explore the different aspects of yourself—your emotions, thoughts, impulses, and inner voices—without judgment. Often, we carry conflicting or polarizing elements, such as a part that craves safety and another that yearns for freedom, or a part that is critical alongside a vulnerable part. In therapy, we give these parts space to be seen, heard, and understood, allowing you to become aware of their needs, patterns, and how they interact.

The goal is not to “fix” anything, but to cultivate awareness, self-compassion, and integration, enabling you to respond to yourself with curiosity and care rather than conflict or avoidance. Parts work can also help improve relationships, decision-making, and emotional regulation by clarifying the different voices within you.

Other experiments might include artwork, somatic movement, singing and music, or other forms of expression that may emerge in the session. I invite you to bring yourself into the space and any mediums for expression that feel resonant for your healing alchemy.

My approach to therapy is informed by feminist principles and liberatory design frameworks, centering equity, autonomy, and social context in our work together. I view therapy as a collaborative space where power, identity, and systemic influences are acknowledged, and where your voice and choices are honored. This approach emphasizes empowerment, inclusivity, and social awareness, creating a space where healing is not just personal but also connected to broader liberation, justice, and authenticity.

I take a liberatory and anti-oppressive approach, recognizing how systemic oppression—such as racism, ableism, ageism, xenophobia, colonialism, classism, and other forms of structural inequality—shapes our bodies, minds, emotions, and relationships. My work honors your lived experience within these systems and creates space to explore healing, empowerment, and connection in a way that is conscious of power and social context.

I bring awareness of my own privileges and blind spots to my work, recognizing how my identities and experiences shape the therapeutic relationship. At the same time, I am deeply committed to holding space for safety, equity, and inclusion, continually reflecting on my practice to ensure that therapy is a place where all clients feel seen, heard, and respected. My devotion to this work is rooted in the belief that healing happens most fully when attention is paid not only to individual experiences, but also to the ways systems of power and oppression influence our lives and relationships.

I offer therapy in a warm, welcoming, and private space designed to help you feel safe and supported. Sessions can be held in person at my office or remotely via secure teletherapy, if that is more convenient for you.

My goal is to provide a setting—physical or virtual—where you can fully engage in your work, feel seen and heard, and explore what matters most to you.

If you would like to be seen in person at the clinic, please note that there is a set of stairs to access the space. Your comfort and accessibility are important, so please let me know if this will be an issue. We can discuss options to ensure your sessions are safe and accessible, including the possibility of remote sessions or alternative locations if needed.