Most of us learned early on how to trade authenticity for connection, silencing our emotions or adapting our personalities to fit our parents' needs. While that strategy helped us survive childhood, living from that place as an adult often leaves us feeling disconnected, anxious, or caught in repetitive internal loops. Hi I’m Ryan. My practice is desighed for people who are ready to explore that trade-off. I do my best work with clients who have some experience with therapy and are in touch with their emotions. Rather than just managing symptoms or analyzing problems purely from the head, therapy with me focuses on what happens when you turn toward your emotional and somatic experience. In our work together, we won’t treat anxiety, OCD, depression (or other conditions) simply as defects to eliminate. We will look at them as protective adaptations from childhood that are ready to be updated. We will map how your mind operates, track what your body is holding, and create space for you to reclaim parts of yourself you had to set aside.