Flora's Approach
We often come to therapy because something in our lives is asking for our attention. Our usual strategies aren't working, old patterns keep repeating, or we simply sense there is another way to live, with more purpose, joy, and connection.
Through my own journey I came to psychotherapy and fell in love with the process of sensing and mending the human heart.
I work warmly and gently, and with a great deal of curiosity. My aim with every person is to sense what lies beneath whatever's troubling them so that there's understanding as well as relief. Often, symptoms or patterns that cause pain now developed for good reasons: to protect ourselves, maintain connection, or adapt to situations where we felt out of our depth.
We become curious about those patterns: the places where the past is shaping the present, where the mind understands something that the body doesn't yet believe, or where different parts of ourselves seem to pull in different directions.
By moving through these stuck spots, clients come to better understand themselves and live more peacefully in present.
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to this sort of work. I draw upon depth-oriented, relational, body-based, trauma-informed, and experiential therapies depending on the person in front of me. My hope is that therapy helps you understand yourself more and experience greater freedom to live from who you actually are.
If you are ready, let’s talk.
My Specialty Areas
Depression
Depression can look like sadness, but it can also feel like disconnection, numbness, exhaustion, or a loss of meaning. Together we become curious about wat your experience of depression may be communicating while helping you reconnect with vitality, purpose, and yourself.
Existential Concerns
Questions of meaning, purpose, identify, mortality, spirituality, and what makes life worth living often emerge during periods of change or suffering. Therapy can be a place to explore these questions seriously and openly, without assuming one right answer. This work is particularly close to my heart and is part of what drew me to psychotherapy. I love helping clients wrestle honestly with the deeper questions of their lives and discover answers they can live by.
Anxiety
Anxiety can leave us living in anticipation- overthinking, bracing, controlling, or struggling to feel safe even when we know we are. Therapy can help us understand what the anxiety is protecting while developing a greater capacity for steadiness, flexibility, and trust.
Trauma
Trauma is not only what happened to us, but what our minds and bodies had to do to survive it. I work with both clearly unidentifiable traumatic experiences and the quieter effects of difficult early relationships, chronic stress, neglect, or experiences that overwhelmed our ability to cope.
Relationships
ADHD
Our relationships often reveal our deepest, most engrained patterns such as how we seek closeness, protect ourselves, respond to conflict, and experience vulnerability. Together we can work to understand these patterns, heal what continues to shape them, and develop greater freedom in how you relate to yourself and respond with others.
ADHD affects more than attention. It can shape motivation, trust in yourself, emotional regulation, relationships, and the stories we create about ourselves after years of struggling with things that seem to come naturally to others. Therapy can make more sense of those experiences, instill greater compassion, and develop ways that work with, not against, your mind.
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
Sometimes we need another way of accessing what has been difficult to reach through ordinary means.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) combines the therapeutic relationship with the altered state of consciousness produced by ketamine. For appropriate clients, this can create greater openness, flexibility, and access to emotions, memories, and perspectives that might otherwise feel hard to reach.
I work collaboratively with a medical provider who handles medical evaluation and prescribing while I support clients through preparation, the dosing experience, and the integration of what emerges afterward.
