Integrative Perspectives Counseling and Consulting PC is a psychotherapy practice specializing in anxiety, obsessive thinking, and reproductive and attachment-related trauma, including infertility, pregnancy loss, and the transition to pregnancy and parenthood. We provide trauma-informed, nervous-system-based care—integrating EMDR, attachment work, parts work, and polyvagal theory—to help clients feel safer in their bodies, steadier in their minds, and more connected in their lives and relationships.
Individual Therapy
Therapy for the Person Behind the Pattern
Maybe you know exactly what you are doing and can't seem to stop doing it.
Maybe you're constantly thinking, researching, anticipating, fixing, reassuring, avoiding, or trying to get things right.
Maybe you are the person everyone relies on, but you're not sure what happens when you need someone else.
Maybe your emotions feel too big, too complicated, or too inconvenient.
Or maybe you don't feel much at all until suddenly you feel everything.
Therapy can be a place to slow down and understand what is happening beneath the pattern.
We Start With How You Actually Experience Yourself
I don't assume that everyone experiences the world in the same way.
Some people notice their body first.
Some notice thoughts.
Some notice images or patterns.
Some people know something is wrong long before they can explain why.
Others don't notice until the experience is already intense.
I'm interested in your entry point.
How do you know something is changing?
What happens before you become overwhelmed?
What happens before you shut down?
What happens before you start trying to solve everything?
Sometimes that awareness is the beginning of choice.
Not because you have to change it immediately.
Because you can begin to know yourself while it is happening.
When Coping Isn't the Whole Story
Coping skills can absolutely be useful.
But sometimes learning another strategy isn't what you need most.
Sometimes we need to understand why your system has become so dependent on the strategy in the first place.
The person who constantly anticipates may be protecting against the terror of needing someone.
The person who shuts down may be protecting against feeling too much.
The person who needs certainty may be trying desperately to feel safe.
The person who keeps everything together may have learned very early that no one else was going to do it.
Understanding doesn't automatically make the pattern disappear.
But it can change your relationship with the pattern.
And that can create room for something new.
Parts, Patterns, and Protection
I often use parts work without requiring you to adopt a particular language or model.
You might notice a part of you that says:
"Don't let this happen."
Another says:
"Fix it now."
Another says:
"Don't need anyone."
Another says:
"Please tell me I'm okay."
Rather than fighting these parts, we can become curious about them.
What are they trying to prevent?
What do they believe would happen if they stopped?
What do they need from you now?
Over time, the goal is not to silence every protective part.
It is to develop enough internal space that you can listen without automatically handing over the steering wheel.
A Therapy Room With Room to Breathe
My style is warm, engaged, and relational.
There will be serious moments.
There may be tears.
There may be silence.
There may also be laughter, play, metaphor, and moments that are unexpectedly light.
I don't believe you need to be solemn in order to do deep work.
Sometimes we need to get into the mud.
Sometimes we need to sit beside something quietly.
Sometimes we need to notice that you went up and then you came back down.
And sometimes the most important thing is simply realizing:
You can experience something difficult and still be here.
Areas I Work With
I work with individuals experiencing:
Anxiety and rumination
OCD and obsessive thinking
Neurodivergence
Infertility and reproductive mental health concerns
Pregnancy and postpartum transitions
Pregnancy loss
Relationship and attachment concerns
Parenting transitions
Emotional overwhelm and shutdown
Life transitions and identity concerns
Therapists seeking individual therapy
You don't have to know exactly what kind of therapy you need.
We can start with understanding what is happening and become curious about where to go from there.