Josette works with children and adolescents who are navigating trauma, grief, identity struggles, or transitions such as adoption and foster care. With young clients, Josette brings a calming presence and developmentally-sensitive approach, helping them feel safe in their own skin and supported in expressing what’s often hard to put into words. She specializes in working with children who have experienced relational wounds, developmental stress, or disruptions in early caregiving—such as adoption, foster care, or chronic instability. Her work is rooted in attachment theory and TBRI (Trust-Based Relational Intervention), a framework designed to help children feel safe, seen, and securely connected. She approaches each child with deep respect for their story and nervous system, using play, regulation strategies, and relationship-building to help them begin to trust and express themselves more freely. Alongside the child’s therapy, Josette provides parent coaching to support attunement, reduce reactivity, and foster stronger emotional bonds at home. Her goal is to create healing not just within the child, but within the caregiving relationship itself—because when connection feels safe, everything else starts to shift. She helps caregivers understand their child’s behavior through a trauma-informed lens—and build the kind of connection that helps healing take root at home.

Josette supports parents navigating high-conflict shared parenting situations, where getting a child the help they need can feel like an uphill battle. Whether one or both parents are advocating for therapeutic support, Josette offers a steady, child-centered approach that prioritizes the child’s emotional safety and developmental needs. She works collaboratively with caregivers whenever possible, offering clear communication, structured feedback, and a consistent therapeutic environment where the child can feel supported—regardless of what’s happening outside the therapy room.

Josette enjoys helping couples who feel stuck in cycles of disconnection, tension, or emotional shutdown. Whether you’re navigating years of built-up resentment or feel like you’re speaking different emotional languages, she helps partners slow down, tune in, and begin to hear each other differently. Her approach is grounded in emotion-focused therapy, which means she supports couples in moving beneath surface-level conflicts to identify the deeper needs, fears, and attachment wounds driving the distress. With Josette, couples learn to recognize and repair the moments that hurt—and begin to rebuild trust, safety, and emotional intimacy. Her presence is calm and nonjudgmental, helping each person feel safe enough to show up honestly and take the risks that real connection requires.

Josette comes alongside adults who are healing from childhood abuse, emotional neglect, and attachment trauma—the kinds of wounds that often go unspoken but shape everything from self-worth to relationships to nervous system functioning. For clients who feel stuck in survival mode, chronically anxious, shut down, or ashamed of how trauma still impacts them, Josette offers a path forward that is gentle, attuned, and deeply healing. Her approach honors both the strength it took to survive—and the longing to live from something more whole.

Whether you’re a woman in midlife navigating long-ignored wounds, a teen girl who feels misunderstood, a child stuck in survival mode, a disconnected couple, or a parent trying to show up differently for a struggling kid, Josette offers therapy that is grounded, thoughtful, and rooted in real hope.