Individual Therapy for Adults

Being an adult is harder than anyone could have warned us. There is no singular guidebook or blueprint for the process of developing a sense of personal identity, inventing a sense of meaning, maintaining our own selfhood even in the face of family or social constructs about who and how we are “supposed” to be. And yet the journey through many chapters of grownupness necessarily tests our tolerance for uncertainty, our stamina for keeping up with one adaptation after another. Whether from emerging from high school or undergrad into early adulthood, grappling with individuality after growing up with emotionally unavailable parents, or sandwiched between the tasks of attuned parenting and the weight of caring for aging elders — we’re more chewed up than a wad of ABC gum, and twice as spent. 

In my work with individual adults, I strive to help clients weave the many tangled threads of themselves into a clearer tapestry of personhood in a constant state of becoming. This happens through the establishment of therapy as a nonjudgmental environment in which I remain curious and supportive in helping clients to view themselves through a different lens. From this new viewpoint I see clients develop new insights into shaping factors that bring them either further from or closer to authenticity, both in relationships and within themselves. My belief remains that it is in the experience of growing closer to that authenticity in the therapeutic relationship that clients can effectively grow toward resolution of what is troubling them.

I work with adults (18+) who are ready to:

• Understand recurring patterns and why stress feels overwhelming

• Explore how past experiences shape current reactions

• Navigate anxiety, depression, burnout, or life transitions

• Build clarity, presence, and intentionality in daily life

• Manage high-achieving pressures while addressing hidden struggles

• Work through the identity questions and self-doubt of emerging adulthood

• Notice the stress and reactivity that parenting can bring out

• Untangle the lasting effects of growing up with an emotionally immature or unavailable parent

• Reflect on questions about purpose, direction, and meaning

• Move toward more authentic connection and emotional flexibility

Individual therapy for adults in Maryland,
Virginia, and California, offered via telehealth.