How I Can Help: Therapy for Couples, Trauma & Individuals in Columbia SC

Relationships don't fall apart all at once. More often it's a slow drifting; a gnawing distance, a cycle that once worked and then stopped, a growing sense of living alongside rather than with someone. Lost connection is one of the most disorienting experiences a relationship can produce as your person is still there, and yet an essential thread has gone quiet between you.

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When the felt connection between two people who love each other begins to fail, the pain is unlike anything else. It makes the future feel suddenly uncertain. What I bring to this work is an emotionally-focused approach that gets underneath the conflict to what is actually driving it — the attachment fears, the unmet needs, the patterns that made sense once and no longer do. Couples often arrive believing their problem is communication. Usually it goes much deeper than that. And that's where the real work, and the real relief, begins.​

Trauma affects not just your memories, but how you experience your body, your connections, and your internal sense of safety in the world. Whether carrying complex trauma rooted in childhood, or navigating other experiences that have never fully settled — healing is possible, and it rarely moves in a straight line.

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My approach recognizes that trauma impacts each person differently and requires a pace and process that feels right for you. I work with adults and teens (ages 14+) using evidence-based approaches and a calm, regulated empathy because what happened to you matters, and so does how we approach it together.

Individual therapy is where we focus entirely on you; your story, your internal dialogues, your relationship with yourself and with the people closest to you. Depression, anxiety, identity questions, and the accumulated weight of just living a complicated, resonating life all have a place here.

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I work especially with men navigating the things social conditioning says to gut out alone — relationship pressure, work stress, midlife questions, PTSD, and the quiet exhaustion of carrying more than anyone around you fully sees. Threatened or actual separation is another area where I support men and women finding their way forward. I also work with partners of trauma survivors. People loving someone carrying deep wounds, whose own burden with this reality is rarely acknowledged. You deserve support that is specifically yours. As a systemic therapist I believe we are fundamentally social creatures, and individual work always happens in the context of our relationships. If at any point I don't feel like the right fit for you, I'll tell you honestly and help you find someone who is.

Communication is the fabric at the heart of every relationship and the first to fray. Nonverbal communication is often where the unraveling begins — a glance away, a silence that lands differently than it used to, a tone whose sharpness cuts deeper than the words spoken. Even infidelity is, at the core, a miscommunication; often lurking long before the rupture. When infidelity explodes into a relationship, the crisis it creates deserves more than damage control.

Together, we can find what needs to be said, heard, and renegotiated. Whether between spouses, inter-generationally, or even among adult siblings, more certain, trusting messaging can be woven to provide relief.