(she/her)
I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist with experience across a wide range of settings and populations. I started my career working with children and families, and over the years have worked with clients across every stage of life. These days my practice is focused on adults who are curious about themselves and ready to do real work. I have a particular affinity for anxious and neurodivergent clients - thoughtful people who often think and feel deeply but haven't always had the language to make sense of it. I bring a lot of compassion and curiosity to this work, and what I hear most from clients is that therapy helped them finally put words to experiences they'd carried for years. And with having the language, clients often notice a shift in how they see themselves and how they show up in their relationships.
In our first session, I will ask a lot of questions to get to know you and your life experiences. I think of the first session as the very beginning of what will likely develop into a deep, supportive relationship for you, in which you will have the space to get to know yourself so much better.
Clients often tell me how comfortable they feel in the therapeutic relationship. I have genuine curiosity about others' experiences, and I think that is a necessary component for growth in therapy. I am also very compassionate and affirming; I strive to never make people feel judged or shamed. I work hard to understand clearly, validate, and ensure that therapy feels collaborative.
My work tends to be the best fit for people who are ready to go beyond symptom management. I do best with clients who are curious about themselves and willing to slow down and look inward. I work especially well with adults navigating anxiety and with neurodivergent clients who may have spent years feeling like something is wrong with them rather than understanding how their minds actually work. The clients who get the most out of our work together tend to share a common thread: they want to understand themselves, not just cope better. They're open to the idea that the patterns showing up in their lives today have roots worth exploring, and they're willing to sit with some discomfort in service of something deeper. If you're looking for quick fixes or a purely skills-based approach, I'm probably not the right fit.
Other specialties
I identify as
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal Family Systems (IFS) treats the mind as naturally made up of multiple parts, each with its own perspective, role, and history. Some parts step in to protect you; others hold the weight of things you haven't had space to process. In our work together, we slow down enough to actually listen to those parts rather than push past them, and in doing so, a lot of what felt stuck tends to shift.
Psychodynamic
Much of what drives how we feel and relate to others lives below the surface in old patterns, early experiences, and stories about ourselves we've been carrying for so long they feel like facts. Psychodynamic work creates space to look at that layer with curiosity, which is often where real and lasting change happens.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
A lot of suffering comes from being pulled into the past or the future, or from fighting hard against what we're feeling. Mindfulness-based work helps you develop a different relationship with your inner experience in order to help you be a little less reactive and a little more grounded in what's actually here.