About Me
I am warm and easy to connect with. I am unconditionally supportive and sometimes silly. I believe my own vulnerability in our sessions is essential to our trust and your safety. I deeply value the relationship we will create. I honor us as two humans figuring things out together. Our relationship will be the vessel for your healing.
My approach to therapy is centered less on thoughts and more on feelings. Sure, we’ll talk a bit about coping skills. But mostly, I’ll help you become aware of the subconscious ways you’re already coping, and get curious about how to adjust whats no longer working. I am interested in listening to what your body is telling us about your experience. I will encourage you to guide the session while I follow right alongside. The main types of therapy I practice are Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP).
My work was founded on social work, advocacy, and community care. I have extensive experience working with with youth and families in crisis and life transition. I love working systemically and providing foundational support. And I am also passionate about digging deeper, processing the past and freeing bodies from stress. Now, I am focused on individual care that is longer term. I am trained in neurofeedback, nervous system regulation and mind-body connection.
The greatest predictor of therapeutic success is the relationship between therapist and client. This means, it’s important your therapist feels right for you! I recommend a brief video consultation to start for us to get to know each other. Ultimately, you’ll want to feel like I’m someone you could open up to.
I typically work with adults and adolescents. I specialize in relational trauma, codependency, nervous system regulation, depression, anxiety, self-worth, inner child work and identity formation. We might be a good fit if you are someone who is: trying to decide on your career, liberating yourself from abuse or codependent patterns, feeling disconnected from yourself, neurodivergent and wanting to reclaim your gifts, or a teen struggling with anxiety or depression.
Goodness of Fit
exploring wild, undeveloped natural caves
Spelunking:
My best friend and I used to joke that we were spelunking into the depths of the unknown any time we dived deep into the BIG existential questions: who am I, why do I feel this way, how do I change?.. “PULL ME BACK!” we’d shout and laugh, trusting the other to hoist us back to safety when our explorations got too scary. After a while, something amazing happened. The more we trusted ourselves to talk about these things, the more we trusted that we wouldn’t get lost in the depths of our beings, that those feelings wouldn’t drown us and the unknown wouldn’t kill us. We started to live with less fear in our daily lives. We started living with courage, confidence and clarity. We were led by our curiosity, not by our aversions. We stopped being afraid of ourselves, and miraculously we started loving ourselves! As it turns out, exploring our inner world is a much safer activity when we have a spotter, and it’s worth the exploration! I’d love to be your spotter.