New to Grow
You are tired of feeling like you are too much and never enough at the same time. You have been the strong one, the dependable one, the one who holds everything together... and somewhere in all of that, you lost the thread back to yourself. Maybe the anxiety has gotten louder. Maybe the relationships keep hitting the same walls. Maybe you just know, deep down, that something needs to change and you are finally ready to do something about it. That is exactly who I am here for. I work best with women and LGBTQ+ folx who are ready to stop surviving and start actually living. People who are done performing okayness and are ready to do the real work. Not perfectly, not fearlessly, but honestly. I welcome others into this space too, but if you have ever felt like the world was not quite built with you in mind, you will feel that difference here. In our sessions, you will not be met with judgment, clinical coldness, or a one size fits all approach. You will be met with warmth, curiosity, and someone who is genuinely invested in helping you find your way back to yourself. We will laugh when laughter is real. We will sit in the hard stuff when it needs to be felt. And we will build something together that actually lasts. You deserve to feel at home in your own life. When you are ready to find your way there, I am ready to walk with you. Schedule your first session and let's begin.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
Our first session is an intake, which means it is really about me getting to know you. We will explore who you are, what is bringing you in, how long you have been carrying it, and what you are hoping to find on the other side of it. Think of it as the beginning of a map we are drawing together. I will ask questions, and I want you to answer them as honestly as you can, knowing that nothing you say will be met with judgment. This is a space where you are allowed to be exactly where you are. You do not have to have it figured out. You do not have to perform okayness. You just have to show up. I also want you to know that while this work is deep, it does not have to be heavy every single moment. Humor lives in this room too, when it is real and when it fits. Sometimes laughter is its own kind of release, and I will never be too clinical to recognize that. By the end of our first session, my goal is for you to leave feeling seen, heard, and like you can breathe a little easier than when you walked in.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
What stands out most is that I treat you like a whole person, not a diagnosis. I am not here to put you in a box or hand you a generic coping skills worksheet and call it healing. I bring together evidence based methods like Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Mindfulness, and Shadow Work, and I hold them alongside something that cannot be clinically trained. Deep intuition, genuine care, and the ability to meet you exactly where you are. I am also a poet and a writer, which means I listen differently. I hear what is said and what is not said. I notice the language you use to describe your life, because the stories we tell ourselves are often where the real work begins. My approach is warm, collaborative, and culturally conscious. I understand what it means to heal in a body that has been told it is too much or not enough. I understand the particular weight carried by women of color, first generation daughters, and anyone who has had to figure out survival before they ever got to figure out themselves. What I hope clients walk away with is not just relief, but transformation. Not just better days, but a deeper relationship with who they are. That is the work I am most committed to, and it is what makes this feel like more than a job.
Solution Focused Brief Treatment
Life doesn't always give us the luxury of time, and sometimes what we need most is to find our footing again. Not to excavate every wound, but to remember we have everything inside us to move forward. That's the heart of Solution Focused Brief Therapy. I use this approach because I believe you are the expert on your own life. My job isn't to pathologize you or keep you stuck in what went wrong; it's to help you reconnect with what's already working, what you've already survived, and what you actually want your life to feel like. Together we get clear on where you want to go, and we build from there. We name your strengths. We find the exceptions: the moments when the anxiety wasn't so loud, when the relationship felt easier, when you felt like yourself. And we use those moments as a map. This isn't about bypassing your pain. It's about not letting it be the only story we tell.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
So much of our suffering lives in the gap between where we are and where we think we should be. Mindfulness Based Therapy is about learning to close that gap, not by forcing yourself to "be positive," but by learning to actually be with yourself. I use this approach because I've seen what happens when we spend our whole lives running from our own inner world. The anxiety gets louder. The exhaustion goes bone deep. Mindfulness gives us a way back in: gently, without judgment. We learn to notice the thoughts without becoming them. We learn to feel without being swept away. And slowly, you build a relationship with yourself that is honest, compassionate, and grounded so when life gets loud, you have somewhere steady to come home to.
Jungian
We all carry parts of ourselves we've been taught to hide: the anger, the grief, the need, the parts that didn't feel safe to be seen. Shadow work is the practice of turning toward those parts instead of away from them. In our sessions, we'll gently bring what's been buried into the light, not to shame it, but to understand it and integrate it. Because the moment you stop fighting yourself is the moment everything starts to shift.