Some stretches feel gray and heavy, and just getting through the day uses everything you have. Other times your mood swings in ways that feel out of your control. Whether that's depression, a mood disorder, or something you don't have a name for yet, we start small. One thing that feels a little lighter, then another.

Having a baby changes everything, and nobody really warns you how lonely that can feel. If you're pregnant, newly postpartum, or somewhere in between and it doesn't look like what you expected, you are not doing this wrong. We make room for what you're actually feeling instead of what you think you're supposed to feel.

How you learned to connect as a kid shows up in how you love, fight, trust, and pull away now. Maybe you keep ending up in the same argument with different people. Maybe closeness feels good until it feels like too much. Understanding your attachment style changes how every relationship in your life feels, including the one with yourself.

Feeling things at full volume is exhausting, especially when the people around you react like you're too much. If you carry a borderline personality disorder diagnosis, or you just know your emotions move faster than you can keep up with, there's a way to work with that. We build skills to ride the wave instead of getting pulled under, and we do it without treating you like a problem to fix.

Starting things is hard. Finishing them is harder. You've probably been told to try harder more times than you can count, and it never really landed. We look at how your brain actually works, then set up systems built around that instead of against it. A lot of this work is about letting go of the shame that piled up along the way.

Big feelings come out sideways in kids. Meltdowns, worry, refusing school, shutting the door and not coming out. Sometimes it looks like constant pushback and arguing, which can be oppositional defiant disorder. I use play and art with younger kids so they can show me what they can't say yet, and I keep parents in the loop so you're never guessing what's going on in here.

Something happened, and it still has a grip on you. Or nothing dramatic happened at all, but your life looks different than it did a year ago and you feel unsteady in it. New job, breakup, loss, a move, becoming a parent, an identity shifting under your feet. Both are worth bringing in. We go at your pace, and you never have to tell me more than you're ready to.