Real talk. Real connection. Real change.
For individuals and couples ready to get unstuck, feel more connected, and build relationships that actually work.
Sometimes we succeed at life on the outside while feeling oddly disconnected on the inside. Therapy helps you confront the ways you’ve adapted by suppressing feelings, needs, or parts of yourself just to stay afloat. Together, we work to untangle those adaptations—not by analyzing your past endlessly, but by challenging the defenses that quietly hold you back. This is the work of becoming more whole, more alive, and more real.
Here are some of the challenges I help clients work through:
Relationship struggles and communication breakdowns
Anxiety, depression, and emotional overwhelm
Early attachment wounds and relational trauma
Identity, self-worth, and feeling “not enough”
Feeling stuck, shut down, or disconnected
Feel stuck or disconnected? Therapy helps you understand what’s in the way—and build a stronger connection to yourself and others.
Shift out of conflict cycles and into a relationship built on trust, safety, and real partnership.
If you’re ready for a deeper approach and lasting change, schedule a free consultation. We’ll talk about what’s going on and explore whether we’re a good fit to work together.
Your path to healing is personal. I use research-backed, relational models (like PACT and psychodynamic therapy) to address the root of what’s holding you back—and support meaningful, lasting change.
Through this work, you’ll build resilience, connection, and the freedom to show up as your real self—in your life and relationships.
The ways we learned to protect ourselves can become the very things that hold us back. Therapy helps you see these patterns clearly—and choose something different.
I have had the pleasure of working for and being trained by Dr. McGuffin over the past five years. Her skills as a therapist, and commitment to learning, and teaching, is inspiring and innovative. Her work in Neurotherapy gives her a deeper understanding of the brain and physiology, to create healing and success in tough cases where people did not know where to get help. I can’t speak highly enough about Dr. McGuffin’s skills, outcomes, warmth, and her as a person.
Therapy helps you build the capacity to feel without flooding—so you can regulate from the inside out, not through external fixes or shutdown.
Early attachment ruptures can make it hard to stay fully present—in your body or the moment. You might space out, over-focus, or dissociate to feel safe. In our work, we strengthen your here-and-now awareness so you can track yourself and your needs more clearly.
Together we strengthen a cohesive, authentic sense of self—one that can hold complexity and stay intact under emotional or relational stress.
You may carry a deep sense that you’re not truly seen, known, or accepted. This can lead to confusion about what gives your life meaning. Our work explores what makes life worth living—not just surviving, but connecting and thriving.
Physical symptoms like tension, pain, or fatigue are often expressions of emotions that never had space to be felt. We listen to the body as part of the self—untangling what’s emotional from what’s physical, without pathologizing either.
You may fear engulfment or abandonment and find yourself either clinging to others or pulling away. In session, we notice these patterns in real time and explore how to create safety through mutual regulation and secure-functioning relating—not just in theory, but in practice.
Being strong isn’t the same as being okay.
Dr. Nicole McGuffin is a licensed therapist who specializes in relationships and trauma. She is accomplished in neurofeedback and therapy with more than 15 years of expertise in psychology, neurophysiology, and psychobiology. Dr. McGuffin empowers people to create real healing and transformation.
Individual Psychotherapy, PACT Couples & Relationship Counseling
