What I work with.
These are the areas I've spent 15 years working in. Not as a generalist — as someone who has gone deep in each of them, with real people, over real time.
Anxiety
Not the anxiety you feel before a presentation. The kind that's been your background noise for so long you've stopped noticing it. The kind that wakes you up at 3am. The kind that lives in your chest and has for years.
Chronic anxiety isn't a thought problem, though it presents that way. The worrying, the catastrophizing, the mental loops — those are symptoms of a nervous system that's stuck in a threat response. The nervous system learned, at some point, that the world isn't safe. And it's been running that program ever since, regardless of what your conscious mind knows about the actual level of danger.
This is why telling an anxious person to "just relax" or "think positive" doesn't work. The problem isn't at the level of conscious thought. My work goes underneath it — using Faster EFT and hypnosis to address the nervous system directly, not just the thinking that sits on top of it.
The result I see most often isn't the complete elimination of anxiety — though that does happen sometimes. It's a return to proportion. The anxiety stops running your life. You can feel it without being controlled by it. For most people, that's a bigger change than they thought was possible.
Addiction & Recovery
I've been in recovery for 32 years. I say that not as a credential but as context — when I work with someone in addiction or recovery, I'm not working from a textbook. I'm working from inside the same experience.
I understand the pull. The way the substance or behavior becomes the solution before it becomes the problem. The shame cycle that keeps people stuck even when they want to stop. The dry stretches that feel like victory and the slips that feel like proof that nothing will ever change. The meetings that help and the ones that don't. The difference between being sober and being free.
I work with people who are in active recovery — supporting the work they're already doing and going deeper into the patterns underneath the addiction. I also work with people who aren't ready to call it that yet but know something is wrong. No judgment in either direction. The work is the work wherever you are in it.
What I've found, over many years of this, is that addiction is almost always downstream of something else. The substance or behavior is a solution to a pain that hasn't been addressed. Getting to that root — not just managing the behavior on top — is where real and lasting change happens.
Trauma
Trauma doesn't stay in the past. That's the first thing most people need to understand. Whatever happened — in childhood, in a relationship, in a single event — it doesn't live in the memory. It lives in the body. In the nervous system. In the reflexes that fire before you even have a thought about them.
This is why talking about trauma, while useful for making sense of it, rarely moves it. The story becomes clear but the charge doesn't leave. You understand why you react the way you do and you still react that way.
My work with trauma uses Faster EFT and hypnosis specifically because they operate at the level where trauma is actually stored — below the conscious mind, in the somatic and emotional systems that hold the experience. The goal isn't to process the story. It's to collapse the charge attached to it, so the body can stop responding to a past that isn't happening anymore.
Most people are surprised by how quickly things can shift when we work at this level. That's not a promise — every person is different. But the depth of the approach tends to produce faster results than years of talk therapy alone.
Codependency
Codependency is one of those words that's been used so broadly it's almost lost its meaning. So here's what I actually mean when I work with it: the pattern of making other people's needs, emotions, and wellbeing more important than your own — consistently, automatically, and at significant cost to yourself.
It doesn't look like a problem from the outside. It often looks like generosity, helpfulness, loyalty. The person with codependency is frequently the one everyone else leans on. The problem is what it costs them — the exhaustion, the resentment, the loss of self, the relationships that drain instead of nourish.
What's underneath codependency is almost always a belief — usually formed early — about what makes you acceptable, lovable, or safe. That you have to earn your place. That your needs are secondary. That being needed is the same as being loved. These beliefs are real. They're not character flaws. And they can be changed.
I've worked with a lot of people on codependency over the years. The shift that tends to matter most isn't behavioral — it's the moment someone realizes they're allowed to have needs, and that having them doesn't make them a burden. That's where things start to move.
Toxic Relationships
The clearest sign of a toxic relationship pattern isn't the relationship you're in. It's the one before it. And the one before that. Different people, same dynamic. Different faces, same story.
This is what patterns do — they find new hosts. You leave a narcissist and find another one. You escape a controlling partner and end up with someone who needs you to manage their emotions. You swear you'll never tolerate this again and six months later you're tolerating it again. This isn't weakness. It's how patterns work. They operate below the level of conscious choice.
The work here is identifying the structure of the pattern — what it's responding to, what need it's meeting, what belief is running underneath it — and actually moving that, not just deciding to behave differently. Deciding doesn't work. That's why you've already decided, probably more than once.
This includes people in toxic family systems, people recovering from narcissistic relationships, people who have identified as people-pleasers or who have played a role in their family that they're still playing decades later. If any of that lands — this is the work.
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