Not your average talk therapy:

listening & feedback; comfort & challenge; progress & patience; enough seriousness to hold your story & enough humor to keep it human

You might be in the right place if

Areas of Focus

Women

Caregivers, people pleasers, high-functioning on the outside but quietly suffering on the inside 

  • For those that hold the mental load, those who spend so much time caring for others that they’ve lost track of themselves in the process. 

  • Maybe you find yourself staying in harmful or draining situations too long and feeling overly responsible for other people’s emotions or reactions.

  • You have a harsh inner critic you can’t seem to shake. 

  • You’re looking for a little less grind and a little more ease, you belong here.

For the Helpers

People whose identities were shaped by duty, faith, or service to others

  • Therapists, clergy, healthcare professionals, teachers and advocates of all kinds. 

  • For those who sit at bedsides of others while silently carrying stressors in their own life.

  • For those who make space for other people’s struggles but find no space for their own, you belong here. 

Religious Trauma Focus

People untangling fear, shame, control, or identity confusion rooted in harmful spiritual experiences.

  • Whether it’s subtle or overt, adverse religious experiences can look like rigid belief systems, purity culture, fear-based teachings, and silencing/shaming LGBT identities. 

  • Maybe you still love some aspects of the faith experience but you want to heal what has hurt you to have a renewed spiritual life. 

  • Processing grief, anger, or confusion around faith change can help you make peace with the past, gain clarity about the present and identify what you want moving forward. 

  • If you’re ready to untangle obligation from authenticity, you belong here.

    A Note: This is a faith-neutral space. I love working with people from various faith backgrounds or none at all. 

  • You feel emotionally, mentally or spiritually exhausted

  • You’re experiencing difficulty resting or feeling safe in your body

  • You’re at a time of transition, and you need to stay grounded, establish healthy routines and improve how you cope with stress

  • You work in a helping profession and are experiencing burnout or compassion fatigue

  • You feel disconnected from your own identity—like you’ve lost track of who you really are

  • You don’t know what you need—but you know something isn’t working.

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 15 years of experience working with people from all backgrounds. I have worked in residential treatment, intensive outpatient, partial hospitalization and college counseling. I worked with people struggling with substance misuse and their families, individuals receiving cancer treatment and their caregivers, foster and adoptive moms and adults from various backgrounds experiencing anxiety, depression, grief, complex trauma, parenting stressors and difficult life transitions. I welcome clients from all walks of life, but I specialize in working with women and LGBT clients.

About me

How Therapy Can Help

Make peace with your past, gain clarity about the present and identify what you want to be moving forward.

Therapy can provide a steady presence for people unlearning who they had to be when life was really hard. For some people, therapy is the only place where they don’t have to be “strong” and they instead get to be honest, confused, emotional and HEARD. This is a space where your whole story is welcome—even the parts you’ve been told to minimize or hide.

I lean heavily on self-compassion, using the therapeutic relationship to model validation, positive regard and speaking to clients as they want to speak to themselves. Internal Family System, or parts work, can help people understand themselves, connect the dots in a way that demystifies their bewildering patterns in life and relationships. Together, we use these tools to work toward reconnecting with your identity, strengthening boundaries, and finding lasting emotional freedom. When we can come to a place of peace inside of us we have more choices, perspective and clarity in life.

What to Expect in Therapy

You don’t need to have the right words or a clear goal to begin. We can figure it out together.

My approach is collaborative, compassionate, and trauma-informed. Therapy moves at your pace, honoring both your resilience and your exhaustion. In therapy with me you can expect listening and feedback, comfort and challenge, progress and patience, enough seriousness to hold the gravity of your story and enough humor to keep it human. I strive to maintain awareness of identities that hold privilege and oppression by integrating a multicultural lens into my work.