PSYCHOLOGIST · FORT COLLINS, COLORADOWhen you're doing everything “right” and still feel like it's not enough
Individual therapy for adults navigating long-standing patterns of self-doubt, over-giving, and disconnection from their own needs.
Accepting new clients — usually within two weeks
PH.D., COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST, CO #PSY.0006323 PRACTICING SINCE 2017You've tried to fix this.
You've read the books. Done the work. Maybe even felt better for a while. But something underneath hasn't shifted — anxiety that won't settle, a heaviness that goes back further than you can always name, a habit of tending to everyone else's feelings before your own.
IT USUALLY WENT ONE OF TWO WAYSMAYBE YOU HEARD
that you're too sensitive, or taking things too seriously.
And some part of you started to believe it.
OR MAYBE THE OPPOSITE
you learned early to keep sadness, anger, or shame to yourself.
Until you stopped letting yourself feel them at all.
If either is familiar, you're not alone — and it's not a personal failing. It's often the result of skills you built early: ways of managing your own or other people's emotions that made complete sense once, and now quietly cost you.
Anxiety that spirals into depression — a racing, urgent feeling that snowballs until you're stuck and can't move.
SOMETIMES IT SHOWS UP AS
The exhaustion of always being the strong one.
Often, it's both — and they feed each other.
SOMETIMES AS
What I offer
I work with adults ready to do the deeper work — understanding these patterns, processing what's underneath them, and building a different way of relating to yourself and the people you love.
This isn't a quick-fix model. It's for people ready to take their own history seriously.
I'm a doctoral-level psychologist, and I taught the clinical skills labs at Colorado State where therapists learn to do this work. My research was on family dynamics — how patterns form between parents and children, and what protects against them. I didn't just end up specializing in this; I studied it.
One pattern, at
four points in a life
Almost every client I see learned early to manage everyone else's emotions — usually in a family where it was genuinely needed. If more than one of these sounds like you, that's expected.
Adults in their 20s and 30s
Long-standing anxiety or depression that isn't new — often present since middle school — alongside self-doubt, or difficulty knowing what you actually want.
New mothers
Anxious, exhausted, irritable, sometimes emotionally flat — often women who have always been “the strong one” and don't know how to ask for help.
Men navigating ambition and self-reliance
Where drive has paid off by every visible measure and quietly cost real connection — and needing help was learned early as a weakness.
Women with adult children
Worn down by a dynamic that no longer works, and finding it hard to envision a different pattern for your own wellbeing.
Ready to talk?
Schedule a free 15-minute consultation call to see if we're a good fit. Currently accepting new clients, with availability within about two weeks for flexible schedules.
