Relational & Integrative Therapy
Where patterns are gently noticed, curiosity leads, and understanding takes shape.
We all adapt to the relationships we’re given. Over time, these adaptations shape how safe it feels to depend on others, how much space we allow ourselves to take up, and how much of ourselves we reveal. Even when circumstances change, these early relational patterns often remain — quietly influencing our expectations of intimacy, safety, and belonging.
My integrative approach is relational at its core. Rather than applying a single style, I intentionally weave together different therapeutic models in response to what emerges between us. By paying attention to how patterns show up within a steady, attuned relationship, therapy becomes a space where those patterns can soften, reorganize, and evolve.
A Therapy Grounded in Relationship
You may have learned to focus on insight, self-control, or independence — to understand yourself from the inside out, often on your own. While these skills can be adaptive, they don’t always address the deeper relational patterns shaped by past experiences.
Relational therapy recognizes that our sense of self is formed — and transformed — through connection. In therapy, the relationship itself becomes a meaningful part of the work, offering a living experience of safety, responsiveness, and mutual presence.
Rather than observing your life from a distance, we pay attention to how you show up in relationship — including here — and what becomes possible when you’re met with care and curiosity.
How Relational Therapy Supports Healing
Healing often happens not through analysis alone, but through moments of being understood, responded to, and emotionally held in real time.
Exploring how early relational experiences continue to shape present-day connections
Gently working with shame, self-doubt, or guardedness within a responsive therapeutic bond
Supporting the nervous system in learning that connection can be safe, mutual, and sustaining
This Approach May Be Supportive If You’re…
Struggling to feel close to others while longing for deeper connection
Carrying shame, self-doubt, or a sense of being “too much” or “not enough”
Noticing repeated relational patterns that feel hard to shift
Navigating identity changes, grief, or life transitions
Wanting therapy that feels responsive rather than prescriptive
Integrative Therapy at Waystone
Therapy is a living process that shifts and adapts as you grow. My work is rooted in an integrative approach that weaves together relational therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), AEDP, emotion-focused, grief, and narrative therapies.
Rather than following a rigid framework, we shape the work moment by moment — responding to what feels most supportive, meaningful, and true for you. This allows therapy to remain flexible, trauma-informed, and deeply attuned to your inner world.
This approach honors your complexity, recognizing that healing rarely follows a straight line — and that different moments may call for different kinds of support.
You are shaped from the relationships you’ve known
And supported by the ones you’re still forming.
Through a consistent, attuned therapeutic relationship, space opens for old patterns to loosen and new ways of relating — to yourself and others — to emerge.
If you’re looking for therapy that centers the complexity of being human