New to Grow
I am passionate about providing a safe, welcoming, and supportive environment to facilitate your healing and growth. I've served clients across settings including outpatient, school-based mental health and crisis response, and diagnostics. I've also volunteered as a mental health professional with the national non-profit, Kesem, serving children through and beyond parental cancer and acted as a team-lead for county level trauma response. It is an honor to be able to meet you where you're at in your mental health journey and use my relational, calm, and empowering approach to help you move toward a better quality of life, improved relationships, and greater insight and self-awareness.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
Together, we will create your goals and discuss your hopes for therapy. I'll individualize your treatment by getting to know you and including you in the planning process.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
I'll get to know you holistically rather than only identifying your struggles and symptoms. I believe healing and change requires us to draw on your innate strengths and self-knowledge, a space where you feel truly seen, respected, and capable, and a therapist who is empathetic, attuned, and connected. Former clients have described their experience with me as grounding, comfortable, and validating.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
I enjoy working with people from all walks of life and embrace diversity in my practice including the spectrums of religion/spirituality, identity, and neurodivergence. I most often work with teens and their families, young adults, and college students navigating late-diagnosed ADHD, family conflict and issues of adolescence, life transitions, and trauma. I also offer diagnostic testing aimed at self-awareness, psychoeducation, and medication access for adult ADHD with a focus on women who are high-masking and often overlooked or misdiagnosed.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
We'll use CBT to help process, explore, challenge, and adapt your thinking and behavior as you work to heal and grow toward your personal goals.
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational interviewing offers an effective yet gentle approach to helping you get "unstuck" by helping you feel comfortable to open up, moving beyond internal conflict and ambivalence, and embracing the sometimes uncomfortable, often difficult, but incredibly rewarding work of bringing about positive change.
Trauma Informed Care
I am EMDR (eye movement desensitization reprocessing) trained and continuously seek out new knowledge when it comes to trauma treatment. Many of my clients have experienced trauma whether that be the life-threatening trauma of a single incident, ongoing systemic and/or family trauma, or developmental/complex trauma. It is important to me to be able to effectively and gently support you through whatever difficulties life has put you through.