Therapy for the Parts of You That Have Been Working So Hard

You don't have to arrive knowing exactly what's wrong.

Maybe you've spent years thinking, anticipating, taking care of other people, trying to get things right, or making sense of experiences that never quite seem to make sense.

Maybe you understand yourself very well and still feel stuck.

Maybe you and your partner love each other deeply, but keep finding yourselves in the same painful places.

Therapy can be a place to slow down enough to become curious about what is actually happening.

Not just what needs to change.

You.

A Different Kind of Therapy

I believe people make sense.

Even the parts that seem confusing, frustrating, or difficult to change.

The part that overthinks.

The part that needs certainty.

The part that takes care of everyone else.

The part that shuts down.

The part that reaches for reassurance.

The part that becomes angry when something doesn't feel right.

These parts usually developed for a reason. They learned how to protect something important.

I don't want to rush past them.

I want to understand them.

Sometimes that means slowing down. Sometimes it means finding the pattern underneath what keeps happening. Sometimes it means noticing something in your body before you have words for it. Sometimes it means laughing at a metaphor that somehow captures exactly what you've been trying to explain.

And sometimes it means sitting quietly with something that doesn't need to be solved yet.

I Am Curious About How You Experience the World

I don't assume that everyone thinks, feels, connects, or processes information in the same way.

I'm interested in how your mind works.

How do you know something is changing?

How do you notice when you're becoming overwhelmed?

What happens just before you shut down, reach for reassurance, become angry, or start trying to fix everything?

How do you experience closeness?

What happens when someone you love experiences something very differently than you do?

Sometimes I have an idea about what may be happening.

Sometimes I see a layer that might be difficult to see from inside the experience.

And sometimes I genuinely don't know.

That's okay.

We can be curious together.

Individuals & Couples

I work with individuals and couples navigating experiences including:

• Infertility and reproductive mental health

• Pregnancy and postpartum transitions

• Pregnancy loss

• Couples and relationship concerns

• OCD and obsessive thinking

• Anxiety and rumination

• Neurodivergence

• Parenting and family transitions

• Therapists seeking therapy

I especially enjoy working with couples when infertility, pregnancy, parenting, OCD, neurodivergence, or differences in how partners process emotion and information begin to affect the relationship.

Because sometimes the problem isn't that you don't love each other.

Sometimes you're trying to connect in completely different ways.

When the Pattern Makes Sense

Therapy isn't always about learning another coping skill.

Coping skills can be helpful. But I often want to understand what is happening underneath the need for the coping skill in the first place.

What has your system learned to do?

What is it protecting?

What happens when you don't immediately fix, avoid, reassure, explain, or take over?

Over time, therapy can create something different:

More room.

More choice.

More trust in yourself.

More capacity to stay connected without abandoning yourself.

My Approach

My work is relational, developmental, integrative, and deeply curious.

I draw from:

Attachment-based therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Parts work / IFS-informed approaches
EMDR
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ERP and i-CBT for OCD
Polyvagal-informed approaches

These approaches are tools—not a script.

The person in front of me determines where we begin.

Sometimes the work is deeply emotional.

Sometimes it's surprisingly playful.

Sometimes we follow a metaphor.

Sometimes we stay with one sentence for a long time.

Sometimes we discover something neither of us expected.

Therapy Can Be Deep Without Being Heavy All the Time

I am warm, engaged, playful, conceptual, and genuinely interested in people.

There is room in my therapy room for tears and laughter.

For silence and conversation.

For grief and absurdity.

For the parts of you that want to hide and the parts that want to take over.

You don't have to perform insight.

You don't have to have the right words.

You don't have to make yourself easy to understand.

You can simply begin where you are.

A Place to Become Curious About Yourself

I don't want you to leave therapy simply knowing more about yourself.

I want you to experience something different in your relationship with yourself.

To notice.

To wonder.

To recognize your patterns without immediately judging them.

To discover that you can feel something difficult without necessarily having to make it disappear.

To learn that you can remain connected to yourself—and to someone else—even when things feel uncertain.

Most of all, I want you to experience what it feels like to have someone be genuinely curious about you.

Not just your symptoms.

Not just your diagnosis.

Not just what needs to change.

You.

Integrative Perspectives Counseling and Consulting

Therapy for individuals, couples, parents, and therapists in Illinois and Ohio through in-person and virtual services.

You don't have to know exactly what you need before you begin. We can start there.