Crisis Management
June 29, 2026
JD, PhD, MS, LPC
I work with attorneys, academics, and other high-achieving adults who often appear successful from the outside but feel overwhelmed, misunderstood, isolated, or out of sync internally. Legal training can be a tremendous strength, but it can also influence how distress is experienced. The vigilance, precision, analytical rigor, emotional containment, and problem-solving abilities that are so valued in law school and legal practice can, over time, affect rest, relationships, anxiety, identity, and the ability to feel fully present in one’s life.
My approach to therapy is informed by my multidisciplinary educational background in law, developmental psychology, and pastoral counseling, as well as decades spent in academia and clinical practice. My work is especially suited to clients who want more than symptom management and diagnoses. Words such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, and trauma may describe a person’s experience, but they do not fully explain the deeper patterns beneath it.
I help clients understand how personality, intellect, sensitivity, professional identity, family history, life circumstances, and larger systems interact to create their experience of themselves and their lives. Together, we look at the factors that have influenced the ways clients have thought, coped, achieved, protected themselves, and related to others across their lifetimes. My approach is collaborative, thoughtful, and direct. I bring clarity and compassion to helping people with complex inner lives understand themselves more fully and find a more authentic path forward.
I bill client's insurance if I am an in-network provider. If I am not, I provide a superbill so that they can file for out-of-network benefits.
Pastoral counseling is not the same as Christian counseling. Rather, the term refers to the training I have in addressing clients' religious, spiritual, and existential issues when the client brings them into the therapy room.
I use a life-span development approach, informed by ecological systems theory.
