Individual Therapy for Adults
What if you didn’t have to work so hard on yourself?
There’s a lot of pressure to constantly improve ourselves. To understand every feeling, unpack every experience, and become the best possible version of ourselves.
And sure, understanding ourselves can be helpful. But sometimes, all that working on ourselves starts to feel like another full-time job.
What if you could take a breath?
What if, instead of trying to figure out what’s wrong with you, we got curious about what’s happening?
What if you could give yourself permission to be a whole human being, with all the complicated feelings, unexpected reactions, awkward moments, and wonderfully weird bits that come with that?
That’s the kind of space I want to create.
As a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, I offer a warm, supportive space where we can explore what’s happening in your life without the pressure to have all the answers. We can talk about what’s hard, notice the patterns that keep showing up, and make room for new ways of understanding yourself.
And we can laugh, too.
Because meaningful work doesn’t always have to feel heavy. Sometimes humor helps us see things differently. Sometimes a little playfulness makes it easier to approach something weve been avoiding.
And sometimes, a really good belly laugh is exactly the kind of breathing room we need.
We can take the work seriously without taking ourselves quite so seriously all the time.
What might bring you here?
There’s no particular kind of person who belongs in therapy. You don’t need to be in crisis, have a specific problem, or be able to explain exactly what’s wrong.
You might be navigating:
Changes in your life, relationships, or sense of identity.
Feelings or patterns you can’t quite make sense of.
The pressure to meet everyone’s expectations, including your own.
A tendency to overthink, second-guess yourself, or get stuck in your head.
The feeling that you’ve lost touch with yourself somewhere along the way.
A desire to understand yourself with more curiosity and less judgment.
A general sense that you want something to feel different, even if you aren’t sure what that something is.
Or you might simply be curious about what it would feel like to have a space where you don’t have to hold everything together.
“I have been seeing Catherine for four years now, and her guidance and support has been truly life-changing for me. When we first started, I was navigating a lot of anxiety alongside complex workplace, personal, and relationship challenges. She provided a safe, grounded space that helped me untangle and work through those struggles. She helped me unpack the challenges in my workplace situation, guiding me to the realization that I needed a change.
This ultimately led me to find a job that was a major upgrade and a workplace that I genuinely love! I truly cannot imagine where I would be today without her steady support, insight, and compassion. I always look forward to my sessions with Catherine and knowing she is there to guide and support me has brought me a great sense of peace no matter what life has thrown at me.”
Client
How we work together
Sometimes we need to talk. Sometimes we need to explore something in a different way. Sometimes we need to step outside our usual patterns and see what happens when we try something new.
There’s no need to be good at any of it.
My job is to bring my training, experience, curiosity, and care to our work. Your job isn’t to perform being a good client.
You get to be a person.
There’s room for laughter here, too.
I want to be clear about something: making room for laughter doesn’t mean avoiding the hard stuff.
It means recognizing that hard things are only one part of our experience.
We can make space for sadness and joy. Frustration and curiosity. Uncertainty and possibility. We can acknowledge what hurts without making it the only thing that matters.
And we can notice the absurdity of being human, because sometimes life really is ridiculous.
My hope is that our work gives you room to breathe, to explore, to feel what you feel, and to reconnect with parts of yourself that may have gotten a little lost beneath all the expectations and shoulds.
Not so you can become someone else.
So you can feel a little more at home being you.
If you’re wondering whether working together might feel right for you, let’s start with a conversation.
