IFS & EMDR Therapy in Indianapolis and virtually Across Indiana
You understand the why. Now you’re ready to work on the how.
You may have spent years understanding yourself—maybe even years in therapy. You know where your patterns came from, recognize your triggers, and may know what you should do differently. And yet, some of the same patterns keep showing up.
Maybe you overthink, take care of everyone else, hold yourself to impossible standards, or struggle to know what you actually want. You might be highly capable on the outside while feeling anxious, disconnected, self-critical, or simply stuck on the inside.
Or perhaps you’re carrying the impact of trauma, difficult relationships, loss, or experiences you understand intellectually but that still seem to live somewhere deeper.
Insight matters. But sometimes understanding why isn’t enough to create lasting change. Therapy can help you understand the patterns and protective strategies you’ve developed—and change how you relate to yourself and the parts of you that developed those patterns in the first place.
My approach is experiential as well as conversational. Using Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, and/or nature-based therapy, we can go beyond talking about your experience and work with it through emotion, the body, imagery, creativity, movement, and connection.
Because sometimes change isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about creating enough space to reconnect with who you already are, with more choice, flexibility, connection, freedom, and room for your true nature to come through.
Internal Family Systems Therapy
Get curious about what’s happening inside.
Understand the parts of you that protect, strive, worry, criticize, avoid, or carry pain—and develop a different relationship with them.
EMDR Therapy
Help unresolved experiences become truly past.
Go beyond intellectually understanding what happened by working experientially with the emotions, beliefs, sensations, and memories that remain activated.
Nature-Based Therapy
Sometimes change needs a little more space.
Bring therapy outdoors through movement, sensory awareness, creativity, and connection with the natural world.
While I know there are many avenues to heal, I’ve sought out advanced training in the treatments that I believe to be the most effective in creating deep and long-lasting change. I believe meaningful change often requires more than understanding ourselves intellectually. Therapy can become a place not only to talk about your experience, but to slow down enough to notice, feel, and work with what is happening in the present moment.
Drawing from Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, nature-based therapy, and a nervous-system-informed lens, we’ll work at a pace that respects your system rather than pushing past it. Our work may involve curiosity and reflection, somatic awareness, imagery, creative expression, movement, or time in nature, depending on what feels useful and authentic to you.
At the center of all of this is the therapeutic relationship. I bring warmth, curiosity, humor, and compassion to our work, with the goal of creating a space where you can relate to yourself in new ways, experience something different, and have more choice in how you move through your life.
