Individual Therapy
You know your experience better than anyone.
I'm here to help you make sense of what to do with it.
Rehabilitation psychologist. This is the work I've spent my career doing.
Therapy for people living with chronic pain, chronic medical conditions, and physical disabilities. I've spent my career working with people navigating these conditions — not just the medical side, but the way they ripple through identity, relationships, daily life, and what feels possible.
Why This Specialty
I've spent my career with people
navigating exactly this.
Chronic pain, spinal cord injuries and diseases, and other acquired disabilities — the conditions that change your entire life. Most of my career has been spent here. I understand what it means when your body doesn't cooperate the way you expected — and what it takes to build a life that still feels like yours.
What I've learned is that living with a chronic condition is a biopsychosocial experience — it's physical, psychological, and social all at once. The pain itself is real. But so is the grief that doesn't have a name, the frustration of being misunderstood by providers who mean well, the way relationships shift, and the slow erosion of identity when your body stops doing what it used to.
You are the expert on your own experience. I'm not here to be the authority on your lived reality — I'm here to join alongside you, to help you make sense of what your condition means for your life, and to figure out what comes next on your terms.
"You are the expert on your own experience. I'm here to join alongside you — not to tell you what your life should look like."
Who This Is For
People living with conditions that touch everything
Chronic Pain
Pain that persists reshapes how you move through the world — physically, emotionally, socially. I work with people who are tired of being reduced to a diagnosis and are looking for someone who understands the nuance of what it actually costs to live with this every day.
Chronic Medical Conditions
Living with an ongoing condition means constantly adapting — to treatments, to limitations, to the gap between how you feel and how you appear to everyone else. Your condition may influence some areas of your life profoundly and others not at all. That complexity deserves space.
Physical Disabilities
Whether it's something you were born with or something that happened to you, disability intersects with identity, independence, relationships, and what a good life looks like in ways that most therapists don't fully grasp. I've spent years in that conversation.
What to Expect
What therapy actually looks like here
This isn't talk therapy where we circle the same ground every week. I use evidence-based approaches tailored to what you're dealing with — grounded in research, adapted to your life. We address the full picture: the physical reality, the emotional weight, and the social context that shapes how you experience your condition.
Some sessions are about processing what's hard — the grief, the frustration, the identity shifts. Some are about building skills to manage what isn't going to change. And some are about figuring out what you actually want your life to look like now, not what it was supposed to look like before.
I'll be direct with you. If something isn't working, I'll say so. If I think a different approach would serve you better, I'll bring it up. But I'll never pretend to know your experience better than you do. You're the expert on your own life — I'm here to help you use that expertise.
"The goal isn't to make the condition disappear. It's to help you build a life that feels meaningful and full — with the condition as part of it, not the center of it."
An Important Distinction
Therapy and coaching are different things
Therapy (this page)
Clinical work for people living with chronic pain, chronic medical conditions, or physical disabilities. We address the full biopsychosocial impact of your condition — grief, identity, adjustment, coping, relationships, and quality of life. This is therapy in the full clinical sense: evidence-based, confidential, and grounded in my training as a rehabilitation psychologist.
Coaching (separate service)
Values-based coaching for people who aren't in crisis but feel disconnected from what matters to them. Forward-looking, action-oriented work about clarifying what you want and closing the gap between that and how you're living. Not therapy — no diagnosis, no treatment. A different kind of work entirely.
Learn about coachingThe Details
Individual Therapy Sessions
Self-pay only. No insurance billing, which also means no managed care restrictions on how we work together.
Sessions are 50 minutes, virtual, and scheduled at a frequency that makes sense for where you are. Some people come weekly. Some come biweekly. We'll figure out the right rhythm together based on what you're working through.
50-minute sessions
Focused, clinical time
100% virtual
From wherever you are
Evidence-based
Grounded in rehab psychology
Ready to start?
Reach out and tell me a little about what you're dealing with. I'll get back to you within 48 hours to set up an initial consultation.
Get in TouchCommon Questions
Honest answers, no fine print
What is a rehabilitation psychologist?
A rehabilitation psychologist specializes in working with people living with chronic pain, spinal cord injuries and diseases, acquired disabilities, and other serious health conditions — the kinds of conditions that change your entire life, not just your body. The focus isn't on curing the condition. It's on helping people adapt, cope, and build meaningful lives alongside it. That means looking at the full picture: how a condition affects mood, identity, relationships, daily functioning, and what feels possible. Most of my career has been spent in this work. Rehabilitation psychology sits at the intersection of physical health and psychological wellbeing — and it takes both seriously.
What makes you different from a general therapist?
Rehabilitation psychology is my specialty — it's what I've trained in and practiced for over fifteen years. I understand how chronic pain, medical conditions, and disabilities affect not just your body but your identity, your relationships, your sense of what's possible. A general therapist can be great for many things. But if your life is shaped by a chronic condition, you deserve someone who deeply understands that territory.
Do you treat the condition itself?
I don't treat the medical condition — your medical team handles that. What I work with is everything that surrounds it: how the condition affects your mood, your relationships, your sense of self, your daily decisions. Sometimes the condition is front and center in our work. Sometimes it's in the background. It depends on what matters most to you right now.
Why self-pay? Why not insurance?
Insurance comes with restrictions — on how many sessions you can have, what we can work on, and what diagnosis goes in your record. Self-pay means I answer to you, not a managed care company. We work on what matters to you, for as long as it's useful, without anyone else in the room.
How is therapy different from coaching?
Therapy is clinical work. I can address mental health concerns, process grief and trauma, and use clinical interventions that coaching doesn't include. Coaching is forward-looking and values-based — it's for people who aren't in crisis but want to live more deliberately. If you're not sure which one fits, reach out and we'll figure it out together.
I've had bad experiences with therapists who didn't understand my condition.
I hear that a lot. Many people with chronic conditions have sat across from well-meaning therapists who didn't quite get it — who treated the condition as secondary or tried to apply general frameworks that didn't fit. This is different. Your condition isn't a footnote here. And you're the expert on what it's like to live with it. I'm here to work with that expertise, not around it.
What if I'm not sure therapy is what I need?
That's a fair place to be. The initial consultation is a conversation, not a commitment. We'll talk about what's going on and whether this is the right fit. If it's not, I'll point you in a better direction.
Take the First Step
You don't have to navigate this alone
If you're living with chronic pain, a chronic medical condition, or a physical disability — and you're looking for a therapist who actually understands what that means — I'd like to hear from you.