My Specialties
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
Most people who reach out are dealing with more than one thing at once. Old family patterns that keep resurfacing in new relationships. A coping habit — drinking, work, control — that’s stopped being sustainable. A body that still reacts to things that happened years ago. These aren’t separate problems; they’re usually connected.
Below are the three areas where I concentrate my clinical work: attachment-based therapy for the relational patterns you learned early and never unlearned, addiction recovery for high-functioning adults whose coping patterns have outgrown what they can manage alone, and EMDR, the modality I use across both to help your nervous system finally process what’s been driving the pattern.
Click into any one to see how the work actually looks.
The patterns you keep running into now usually aren’t about what’s happening today — they’re about what you learned early, and never unlearned. Attachment-based therapy helps you understand where those patterns came from, so you can finally change them.
You’ve kept it together on the outside — work, relationships, responsibilities — while alcohol or another coping pattern quietly became something you can’t sustain. This is trauma-focused treatment for the pattern underneath, not just the behavior on the surface.
Trauma isn’t just a memory — it’s a memory that got stuck, stored in the body in a way that keeps it feeling present long after it’s over. EMDR helps your brain finally finish processing it, so it loses its grip on your life today.
Not sure which of these fits best? That’s a normal place to start — reach out and we’ll figure it out together.