I specialize in supporting individuals, couples, and families navigating cancer, chronic illness, and rare or complex medical conditions.
My approach is integrative and grounded in Medical Family Therapy, with an emphasis on understanding how illness impacts not only the body, but also identity, relationships, and daily life.
For those who desire it, I also incorporate faith into the therapeutic process—creating space for meaning, hope, and spiritual reflection alongside emotional care.
Each session is tailored to your experience, with the goal of helping you feel supported, understood, and less alone as you move through what you’re facing.
Medical Family Therapy Model
Medical Family Therapy recognizes that illness affects more than the body. It can shape emotions, relationships, identity, family roles, and the way people move through everyday life.
This approach brings together emotional support, relational care, and an understanding of the medical realities clients are facing.
In therapy, this may include support for:
Individuals adjusting to cancer, chronic illness, or rare conditions
Couples navigating stress, role changes, or caregiving strain
Families working through medical decisions, grief, or shifting responsibilities
Caregivers experiencing exhaustion, guilt, or burnout
Clients processing difficult or dismissive healthcare experiences
As a Medical Family Therapist, I work to create a space where your experience is taken seriously, your relationships are supported, and your whole story—not just your diagnosis—is honored.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based approach that helps individuals recognize and gently shift patterns of thinking and behavior that may be contributing to emotional distress.
When navigating health challenges, these patterns often emerge in understandable ways—through fear, uncertainty, self-doubt, or overwhelm. CBT offers practical, supportive tools to help you respond to these experiences with greater clarity and steadiness.
In our work together, CBT may support you in:
Easing anxiety related to medical procedures, symptoms, or diagnosis
Navigating depression or emotional heaviness connected to chronic illness
Reframing self-critical thoughts about body changes or physical limitations
Developing coping strategies for fatigue, pain, or treatment side effects
Strengthening emotional regulation and day-to-day problem-solving skills
Rather than trying to “fix” your experience, CBT helps create space to relate to your thoughts and emotions differently—so they feel less overwhelming and more manageable.
Over time, this work can support a greater sense of resilience, helping you move through health-related stress with more balance, flexibility, and self-compassion.
Narrative Therapy
Narrative Therapy is grounded in the belief that you are not defined by the challenges you face. It invites you to explore the stories you carry about your life—and to begin reshaping those stories in ways that reflect your values, identity, and strength.
When living with illness, trauma, or major life transitions, it’s easy for a diagnosis or experience to begin to feel like the whole story. Narrative Therapy creates space to gently step back, so we can understand how these experiences have impacted you—without letting them define you.
This approach is especially meaningful in my work and is closely connected to my doctoral research, Narrative Medicine and the Patient’s Illness Narrative: A Workshop for Physicians, which focused on helping healthcare providers better understand patients by listening deeply to the stories of their lived experience.
In our work together, Narrative Therapy may help you:
Separate your identity from a diagnosis (e.g., “I have cancer” rather than “I am cancer”)
Explore how illness has shaped your sense of self, relationships, and life story
Make meaning of life changes through reflection and storytelling
Reclaim your voice and sense of agency in the midst of uncertainty
Express your experience in ways that feel authentic, empowering, and seen