I've been doing this a long time. I'm still fascinated by people.

I became a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in 1998, although my curiosity about why human beings do the things we do started long before someone handed me a license. Nearly three decades later, I'm still fascinated.

I've worked with people through trauma, anxiety, depression, relationships, grief, aging, caregiving, reinvention and those wonderfully inconvenient moments when life refuses to follow the plan.

My approach combines evidence-based psychotherapy with mindfulness, curiosity, humor and a healthy respect for the fact that human beings are complicated.

I believe good therapy involves more than identifying what's wrong. It helps us understand why we became who we became, appreciate what got us this far, and decide consciously who we'd like to become next.

I'm not a silent therapist. I participate. I'll ask questions, offer perspectives, point out patterns and occasionally say the thing you may already know but have been hoping nobody would mention.