(she/her)
New to Grow
I’m a trauma and attachment therapist offering a warm and supportive space for clients navigating depression, anxiety, neurodivergence, Complex PTSD, relational wounds and the long‑term impact of overwhelming experiences. I integrate evidence‑based treatments like CPT, TF‑CBT and DBT skills with an attuned, relational approach. My goal is to help clients feel understood, empowered and capable of real healing. Prior to my clinical career, I spent 22 years as a journalist. It is a foundation that now meaningfully strengthens my work as a trauma and attachment therapist. My journalism background honed my ability to listen deeply, ask precise and attuned questions, analyze complex narratives and hold emotionally charged stories with steadiness and respect. These skills translate directly into high‑fidelity, evidence‑based trauma treatment - enhancing my assessment accuracy, my capacity to identify cognitive and thematic patterns and my ability to support clients in reconstructing their narratives with clarity, agency and coherence.
In our first session, you can expect a steady, structured and collaborative conversation focused on understanding what brings you in and what you hope will feel different in your life through our work together. I’ll ask about your history, current symptoms and the patterns you’ve noticed - moving at a pace that feels manageable for you. I’ll also share how I work - what evidence‑based trauma treatment looks like, how we’ll track progress and what safety and stability mean in this space. By the end of the session, you’ll have a sense of the roadmap we might follow together and whether this feels like the right fit for your needs.
I believe that my greatest strengths as a trauma and attachment therapist are that I naturally connect with all kinds of diverse people, I'm curious to learn about other's lived experiences and that I’ve walked the path of being a trauma survivor to a thriver myself. I bring to my work the lived experience of experiencing deep developmental trauma that has shaped every part of how I practice. Having done the hard, sometimes disorienting and deeply human work of healing, I understand - on a cellular level - what it means to sit with fear, grief, shame and the slow rebuilding of trust. That personal history allows me to bring a level of attunement, steadiness and non‑judgment that I hope clients feel immediately. It’s why I’m so committed to evidence‑based models like TF-CBT, DBT, CPT and attachment‑informed work: I know how transformative it is when structure and compassion meet. My own healing gives me a grounded confidence in the process, a deep respect for each client’s individual pace and a genuine belief that change is possible not only as a clinical concept, but as something I’ve experienced and found my through.
My ideal client is someone who is ready to engage in meaningful, evidence‑based trauma work and is open to a collaborative, structured therapeutic process - regardless of age, background, gender and/or religion. They may be carrying the weight of trauma, attachment wounds, or long‑standing patterns of emotional reactivity and they’re motivated to understand themselves with greater clarity and compassion. They’re willing to build foundational skills through DBT, explore and revise trauma‑related beliefs through CPT and deepen their capacity for safety and connection through an attachment‑informed lens. Most importantly, they value a therapeutic relationship that is deeply attuned, warm and yet direct, grounded in fidelity to proven methods and they’re ready to do the courageous work of healing with a partner who brings experience, structure and knowledge with clinical precision.
I identify as
Trauma Informed Care
I integrate TF‑CBT and attachment-focused therapy by grounding trauma work in a stable relational frame while maintaining fidelity to structured evidence‑based intervention. My attachment lens helps me assess how early relational patterns shape current threat responses, emotion regulation and meaning making, which allows me to pace TF‑CBT in a way that is attuned, safe and somatically tolerable. Within TF‑CBT, I emphasize skill-building, cognitive restructuring and trauma narrative work, anchoring these components in the therapeutic relationship through attunement, corrective emotional experiences and collaborative regulation to support clients as they process trauma. This integrated approach allows me to maintain TF‑CBT fidelity while addressing the attachment disruptions that often underlie trauma symptoms, resulting in treatment that is both structured and deeply relational.
Cognitive Processing (CPT)
I use Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) as a highly structured, fidelity-driven trauma treatment that helps clients systematically identify, evaluate and revise the stuck points that maintain post‑traumatic distress. My experience with CPT centers on guiding clients through the core components - psychoeducation, impact statements, cognitive skill-building and written trauma account work when indicated - while maintaining a strong emphasis on Socratic questioning and client-generated insight. In practice, I anchor the model in a collaborative, attuned therapeutic relationship, helping clients examine trauma-related beliefs around safety, trust, power/control, esteem and intimacy with both precision and compassion. I prioritize fidelity to the protocol while adapting pacing and examples to each client’s developmental history, cultural context and attachment patterns, allowing CPT to be both rigorously evidence-based and deeply responsive to the individual sitting in front of me.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
I use Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) as a structured, skills-based framework that strengthens clients’ capacity for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness and mindfulness while maintaining a steady, validating therapeutic stance. My experience with DBT involves weaving core skills into trauma and attachment work so clients can stabilize affect, reduce avoidance and build the behavioral foundation necessary for deeper processing therapies. In practice, I incorporate DBT’s commitment to dialectics - balancing acceptance with change - by validating a client's lived experiences while helping them develop concrete, repeatable strategies for navigating intense emotions and relational patterns. This approach supports clients in increasing behavioral control, reducing self‑defeating cycles and building a more grounded sense of agency, all within a collaborative, structured and evidence‑informed treatment frame.