Major life transitions disrupt the structures you rely on. They also create a rare opening to understand yourself.
The roles you played and the identity built around them suddenly feel unstable. Tough questions surface: Who am I now? What do I actually want? Why does this feel so heavy? You are don’t have to answer them alone.
Most people who start therapy with me during a transition are still functioning. But a significant shift has altered the ground beneath them. A relationship ended. A career pivoted. You moved, or stepped into a new role. The structures that previously held your life together are gone.
This is where the real work begins. We manage the immediate transition, and we address what it has exposed. Anxiety that was manageable before now feels loud. Coping mechanisms that used to work suddenly fall flat.
Common transitions people bring to this work include divorce, career changes, becoming a parent, or significant loss. Your life might look identical from the outside but feel entirely foreign on the inside. You are navigating the profound, unsettling experience of being stuck in the middle. You are no longer the person you were, and you are not yet the person you are becoming.
Transitions strip away the structures that lock your old patterns in place. This disruption creates immediate access to the core emotional drivers that normally stay hidden beneath your routines.
My focus is on what this transition is revealing. We look at how you have been living, what you have been organizing your self-worth around, and what you actually need moving forward.
Using Coherence Therapy and other constructivist approaches, we work directly with the emotional meaning-making beneath your distress. For questions of identity and direction, I draw on existential and humanistic approaches. Our goal is to fundamentally understand what this new chapter demands of you.
Our early sessions focus on understanding exactly what you are carrying into this transition. We look at what routines it has disrupted and what deeper fears it is surfacing.
From there, our work is active and collaborative. We target the rigid emotional patterns, the heavy meanings attached to outdated roles, and the parts of you struggling to operate in this new terrain. We move precisely at the pace of your immediate experience.
Some clients work with me for a few months during an acute transition and leave with renewed clarity. Others discover this opening warrants deeper, longer-term exploration. In-person (Dallas) or telehealth (Texas).
I’m an experiential therapist focused on the emotional patterns beneath your presenting symptoms. We work to actually change these patterns, rather than just talk about them. I work primarily with self-aware adults at inflection points. You know something has to shift, and you are ready for a direct approach.
MS · LPC Associate · NCC
Supervised by Erin Wysong-Warren, LPC-S.
Currently accepting new clients
In-person (Dallas) & telehealth (Texas)
Is therapy for life transitions different from crisis counseling?
Yes. Crisis counseling focuses on immediate stabilization for acute, overwhelming distress. Therapy for life transitions is designed for functioning individuals navigating a sustained period of change, disorientation, or identity loss. Most of my clients are navigating a point in their lives where their old ways of operating simply do not fit anymore.
I’m not sure if what I’m going through is “serious enough” for therapy. Should I reach out?
You do not need to be falling apart to benefit from this work. If a change in your life feels disproportionately disruptive, it is worth exploring. Often, these shifts surface questions you have been avoiding or leave you deeply disoriented. If you are wondering whether this could be useful, a free 15-minute consult is a simple way to find out.
What if I don’t know what I want yet? Is that okay to start with?
Yes. Many people start therapy during a transition with confusion rather than clarity. You might be unsure of what you want, who you are becoming, or even what you are feeling. That confusion is exactly the material we need to work with. You do not need to arrive with a clear goal.
How long does this kind of therapy usually take?
It varies. Some clients engage for a few months to navigate a specific life change and leave with new clarity. Others find the transition has exposed something deeper and choose to stay longer to resolve it. We move at a pace that fits your experience.
Do you work with people going through divorce, career changes, or identity shifts specifically?
Yes. These are common reasons clients start work with me. A divorce can destabilize an identity built around partnership. A career change can expose uncomfortable questions about what you have been striving for and why. A quiet, internal identity shift can leave you feeling completely unmoored. All of these are clear signals that it is time for deeper work.
Can I do this over telehealth?
Yes. I offer telehealth sessions for anyone in Texas. If you are in Dallas, in-person sessions are also available.
If something is shifting and you are unsure what to do with it, let’s have a 15-minute conversation.