Attachment & Relationship Therapy in Austin, TX

You want real, lasting closeness with others, but it feels like you keep recreating the same painful patterns no matter how hard you try.

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Sound familiar?

You crave closeness—but something keeps getting in the way.

Maybe it's hard to trust that people mean well. Maybe being right feels safer than being open. Maybe nothing less than perfect feels okay, and asking for help just isn't your thing. Maybe you keep it light, using humor to stay likable but out of reach. Maybe you give so much to everyone else that your own needs quietly disappear. Or maybe you keep your distance altogether, because closeness has meant getting hurt before.

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Whatever your pattern, it made sense once.

Together, we’ll get curious about your patterns—where they come from, what purpose they’ve served, and how they are getting in the way. When conflict comes up, we’ll slow it down— examining what you were thinking and feeling in the moment, and what might have been going on for the other person—so you can start disrupting your patterns.

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Mentalization-Based Therapy in Austin, TX

I use Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) to work with recurring difficulties in relationships, attachment, and personality. MBT is an evidence-based psychodynamic, interpersonal approach that helps you construct a more nuanced, flexible, tentative, and values-aligned understanding of your own and others’ thoughts, feelings, and motives. Read more about MBT.

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We’ll do it together.

Clients describe me as a good listener, warm, insightful, direct, transparent, thoughtful, and deeply caring. My hope is that you will always feel that I am in it with you. I'll meet you where you are with everything I've got.

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