LCSW, 3 years of experience
New to Grow
I am an LCSW with a Master’s in Social Work, passionate about supporting children, teens, and adults through life’s challenges. I take a Trauma-Informed, Strengths-Based approach, using tools like CBT, Motivational Interviewing, and Psychodynamic therapy to help clients create lasting change. Outside of work, I love practicing yoga, spending time in nature and reading, which inspire mindfulness and balance in my life and practice.
In our first session, we’ll get to know each other, explore your goals and begin creating a safe, supportive space for growth and positive change!
I bring compassion, warmth, and a personalized approach to help clients process past experiences, build resilience and challenge clients to create continuous growth in their lives and relationships.
My ideal clients are ready to take the steps to create lasting changes by exploring the roots of their challenges, developing self-compassion, and building practical tools to live more confidently and fully. Whether it’s managing overthinking, processing trauma, or finding motivation, I help clients reconnect with their strengths and move forward with clarity and resilience.
In my work with clients, I’ve seen how powerful CBT can be in shifting long-held patterns of negative thinking. Together, we practice identifying the automatic thoughts that tend to spiral into self-criticism, worry, or the urge to control the uncontrollable. By challenging those thoughts and experimenting with new ways of responding, my clients begin to see themselves in a compassionate and more balanced light. Over time, many have found they have overcome and managed overthinking, feel lighter emotionally, and are able to approach uncertainty with more ease and self-trust on their own.
In my practice, Motivational Interviewing has proven to be a powerful tool for helping clients connect with their own inner drive for change and take action. By meeting them with understanding and compassion, and challenging the ambivalence that often comes with addiction or low self-esteem, clients begin to hear their own voices of strength and possibility. I've worked with them through the stages of change and witnessed them build confidence, embrace setbacks as part of growth, and stay committed to their vision for a better life. Over time, many have overcome patterns that once held them back and also stepped fully into the goals and sense of self they had always longed for as well as developing a need for continuous growth and desire to evolve.
In utilizing psychodynamic therapy, I’ve seen how guiding clients to explore their inner world and early experiences helps them uncover the roots of their negative emotions and the unconscious patterns that may keep them feeling stuck. By bringing these patterns into awareness and understanding how they first developed, clients gain the freedom to respond differently in the present. Many have shared that this process not only allowed them to process trauma at their own pace but also to release sadness, reclaim a stronger sense of self, and move toward growth with more clarity and self-acceptance.
Every step of the therapy I aim to provide is grounded in compassion, mindfulness and guiding clients toward strength and peace. Compassion-Focused care guides our work together, helping to navigate pain, foster self-kindness, and build resilience in the face of adversity.
The Trauma-Informed approach has been essential to support those navigating C-PTSD, difficult family dynamics, anxiety, depression, borderline traits, eating disorders, and relationship challenges. I honor each client’s unique personality and story, focusing on building trust and helping them reconnect with their strengths while exploring how past experiences and weaknesses can be transformed into their current strengths. My goal is to create a space where clients can process, grow, and move toward healthier relationships with themselves and others.