My Specialties & Training

When trust is broken, and discovery happens, it can feel like your whole world flips overnight—your body is on high alert, your mind won’t stop, and you’re not sure what’s true anymore.

 

I specialize in helping people heal after sexual betrayal, including infidelity, compulsive sexual behavior, and sexual addiction.

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My Focus: Healing After Betrayal

Betrayal trauma isn’t “just a relationship issue.” When the person you depend on violates trust in a major way, it can create real trauma responses—intrusive thoughts, hypervigilance, emotional flooding, sleep issues, and a deep sense of disorientation.

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The three “clients” I work with

In betrayal recovery, there are often three layers that need care—and I work with all three: 

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1) The betrayed partner

We focus on stabilization and healing—understanding betrayal trauma, learning boundaries, reducing triggers, and helping you find your voice again. 

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2) The betraying partner

We focus on accountability and change—understanding how the behaviors started, building internal boundaries, processing underlying trauma, and learning emotional regulation and integrity-based recovery. 

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3) The couple

When enough stability is in place, we shift toward rebuilding a healthier relationship—improving communication, managing conflict, increasing empathy, repairing attachment injuries, and eventually working toward meaningful, safe intimacy. 

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What work will be done in therapy?

Depending on what you need, our work may include:

• Stabilizing the crisis after discovery (grounding, self-soothing, support plans) 

• Boundaries and safety (emotional, digital, relational)

• Trauma processing, so triggers lose their grip over time 

• Repair and rebuilding trust through consistency, honesty, and skills—not promises 

• Clarity and confidence in your next steps (whether you stay, separate, or are unsure)

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My Approach

’m an LCSW and CSAT. My style is direct and compassionate—I’ll tell the truth, name what’s happening, and help you see patterns clearly. I’m also kind and steady, because I believe people can change and heal when they choose to do the work.

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I’m clear about expectations: I won’t work harder than you do.

 

Therapy works when you show up with honesty, effort, and follow-through between sessions.

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I use proven approaches to help with trauma, betrayal, and relationship repair. That can include EMDR and practical tools like mindfulness and journaling to help you stay grounded and make progress outside of sessions. I expect work to be done outside of sessions.

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I don’t treat couples counseling like a debate with winners and losers. If you want to yell and scream, you can do that at home for free. In therapy, I teach skills—so you can communicate better and handle conflict in a healthier way.

 

I will take the side of truth, safety, accountability, and healing. I won’t ask the hurt partner to minimize what happened, and I won’t let the involved partner avoid responsibility.

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Is it “bad enough” to get help?

If you’re stuck in loops of replaying, checking, spiraling, or shutting down, your system is asking for support. You don’t have to carry this alone.

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What's my next step?

If you’re interested in therapy, the best place to start is a 15-minute consultation so you can ask questions and see if we’re a fit.