Who I Work With
Adults
Working with adults is at the heart of what I do. Adults often come to me carrying a great deal — responsibility, expectation, unspoken pressure, and the quiet weight of trying to hold everything together. On the outside, many appear capable, successful, and self-aware. Inside, they may feel uncertain, stuck, conflicted, or disconnected from themselves in ways they can’t quite name.
I work with adults who want greater clarity about who they are and how they are living. Some are navigating life transitions, relationship challenges, physical intimacy difficulties, or long-standing patterns that no longer serve them. Others feel successful by most measures, yet sense something important is missing — a deeper confidence, a more authentic voice, or a stronger connection to themselves and others.
My work with adults is relational, conversational, and deeply personal. I offer a setting where people can speak openly, without fear of judgment or expectation. For many, the deepest relief comes simply from being met with presence, understanding, and care. From there, clarity begins to emerge.
Together, we explore the habits, beliefs, and emotional responses that quietly shape how you think, feel, and relate — to yourself, to the people in your life, and to the world around you. Many of these patterns were formed early in life, and once played an important role. With care and attention, they can be understood, softened, and reshaped.
I bring to my work decades of experience, both professionally and personally, and a deep respect for your innate capability. I see you as inherently whole, even if you feel disconnected from your wisdom and your strength.
My commitment is to support you in reconnecting with yourself — to feel more grounded, more confident, and more at ease in how you live and relate. As clarity grows, so does choice. And with choice comes the freedom to respond to life with greater intention, authenticity, and self-respect.
Couples
Working with couples is some of the most meaningful and nuanced work I do. Intimate relationships have a unique way of revealing both our deepest longings, and our most familiar struggles. The person we love the most can also be the one who triggers us the fastest, leaving couples caught in patterns they don’t fully understand and don’t know how to shift.
I work with couples who are in pain, feeling disconnected, stuck, or unsure of how to find their way back to one another. I also work with couples who care deeply for each other, and want to strengthen what they already have — to communicate more clearly, navigate conflict more skillfully, and experience greater ease, closeness, and intimacy in their relationship.
When couples are working with me, my attention is on the relationship itself — on the patterns that quietly shape how each person reacts, withdraws, pursues, protects, or defends. Almost always, these patterns were learned long before the relationship began. They once served a purpose, but over time they can create distance, misunderstanding, and hurt.
My role is to support couples in slowing the moment so they can clearly see how they are relating to one another - recognizing patterns as they occur, understanding where they come from, and seeing the damage that they create. The next and most essential component is in learning new skills that give couples the ability to do things differently. My work is grounded in warmth, honesty, and care, while also being clear and honest. I will name what I see, not to criticize, but to create clarity — because clarity is what allows real change to occur.
Unlike individual work, change in couples work occurs within the living dynamic of the relationship itself. As each partner becomes more aware, grounded, emotionally present, and equipped with new skills, the relationship itself begins to shift. New choices become possible. Conversations soften. Repair becomes achievable. Intimacy grows not as an idea, but as a lived, day-to-day experience.
I bring to this work not only decades of professional experience, but the lived wisdom of my own many decades-long, deeply committed marriage. I understand that sustaining love over time requires honesty, accountability, tenderness, and a willingness to keep choosing one another — especially when it’s hard.
I'm committed to ensuring both partners feel acknowledged, supported, and invited into deeper responsibility for the relationship. Together, we work toward something profound: a relationship that feels safer, more honest, more connected, and more loving.
Working with Hunter has been a turning point for our relationship. She is incredibly in tune with our dynamics, possessing a rare ability to pinpoint exactly where we were struggling, even when we couldn’t find the words ourselves. She makes the process feel natural and easy, creating a space where we felt safe enough to do the real work.
She helped us identify and break through deep-seated behavior patterns and cycles that had kept us stuck for years. Through her guidance, we learned how to not be reactive and instead be truly considerate of one another's feelings. Most importantly, she taught us how to ensure our words come from a place of love, even during disagreements. She is a truly special practitioner who doesn't just offer advice, but provides the specific emotional tools needed for a lasting transformation, creating a space where we felt safe enough to do the real work.
The shift in our relationship is profound. We are happier and, more importantly, more peaceful. - Jerrie & Andrew
Teens
I am deeply committed to helping teenagers recognize their own worth, capability, and emerging sense of self. I’m committed to them being more conscious, more confident, less reactive, and feeling good about themselves. Even in successful family relationships, teenagers very often want, and benefit from, having someone outside of the family framework, who they can talk to and be heard by.
The day-to-day life of a teen can seem simple in comparison to the vast array of complexities and issues we face as adults. Teenagers - being still in a high state of early development - are far less equipped, and far less experienced in knowing how to deal with the peaks, plateaus and valleys of their lives. Even the most apparently happy teen has no way of escaping what life has in store for them. The issues that they deal with are commonly based on circumstantial experiences that, while entirely different from adult life, are, without question, every bit as concerning, challenging and disruptive for them. The inner-life of a teen - whether introverted or extroverted - is typically filled with substantial doses of turmoil, angst, uncertainty, confusion, disappointment, upset and disruption. These can change from day-to-day, and to significantly varying and often unpredictable degrees. Social Media has added additional layers of complexity to what it is that teens have to deal with. All of this is then highly intensified by their developing emotions, and the flood of neurochemistry that goes hand-in-hand with being a teen. The fact of the matter is that teenagers are still novices in life, desperately trying to figure it out, while equally desperate in trying to fit in - with their parents, siblings, teachers, friends and peers, and even themselves. Being a teen in the 21st Century is seriously tough!
Teenagers need a particular quality and type of direct, open, honest communication. I have the ability to connect easily and authentically with teenagers, even in the early stages of our work. One of my strengths is listening beyond words and reflecting back what teens may not yet know how to articulate.
Children
I am passionate about children, and draw on 15 years in private practice specializing in early-childhood development. Central to my work is the fostering of creativity, self-esteem and self-expression. I work in a way that helps children feel at ease in articulating what’s happening for them internally.
I utilize a variety of disciplines, processes and practices in my Confidante sessions, and my approach is curated in accordance with each child and their specific circumstances. I draw on children’s natural curiosity to help them navigate their thoughts, emotions and relationships.
My commitment is to support children in learning that they can respond thoughtfully to their emotions and experiences, and make changes in how they react and respond to the situations and people in their life. This allows them to work through their feelings, and cultivate a sensorial awareness of their bodies. Over time, children develop greater self-awareness, emotional steadiness, and confidence in themselves.