Stuck between honesty and connection: Therapy in Salt Lake City
I love living along the Wasatch Front, and I love Salt Lake City. Maybe it's the broody, looming mountains, or the way sunlight illuminates the leaves of the giant heritage trees in Liberty Park. It’s definitely in the swaths of Victorian homes and our impressive selection of bagel shops.
Unfortunately, as a licensed therapist in SLC, I also see the ways our community lets people down. I see many clients struggling to “be a good partner” in a culture of high pressure and low support. I meet people who are highly self-aware, reflective, and capable but still feel stuck in anxiety, resentment, loneliness, or disconnection in their relationships. They understand themselves well, but haven’t been able to translate that understanding into real change in their relationships. My goal is to provide a space where people-pleasers, overthinkers, and conflict-avoiders can finally slow down and care for themselves.
When Insight Isn’t Enough
Many of the people I work with are already doing a lot of thinking, reflecting, and analyzing. They can name their self-abandoning patterns and understand where they come from.
Their problem isn't a lack of intelligence or motivation. If anything, the opposite is true.
Their problem is often in their gift for intellectualizing. Believe it or not, we actually cannot think or control our way out of all of our relationship problems. Some of them, we have to feel and share our way through.
In my practice, we slow things down enough to actually work with what is happening emotionally and relationally in the present, not just act out of habit.
Therapy for Identity, Relationships, and Emotional Patterns
A large part of my practice is working with people navigating complex identity and relational experiences, including:
Queer and LGBTQIA+ identity and relationships
Non-monogamous and polyamorous relationship structures
Patterns of avoidance, people-pleasing, and self-erasure in relationships
Relationship anxiety, self-doubt, guilt, and emotional overwhelm
Repeating relational patterns that are hard to shift even with insight
How I Work
My approach is relational, depth-oriented, and experiential. We look at the emotional patterns that show up in your life and relationships, and we work with them directly through lived experience in session.
This often includes:
noticing patterns as they happen in real time
understanding emotional responses beneath surface reactions
exploring how past experiences shape present relationships
building new ways of relating to yourself and others
If You’re Looking for Therapy in Salt Lake City
If you're in Salt Lake City or anywhere in Utah via telehealth, and find yourself stuck between honesty and connection, constantly managing other people's feelings, or struggling to translate insight into real change, I'd be glad to connect.
