Licensed to practice in Massachusetts and accepts 9 insurances. Specializes in Grief, Life Transitions, Perinatal Mental Health and 1 more.
(she/her)
New to Grow
I’m a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps overwhelmed moms and helping professionals navigate burnout, anxiety, emotional exhaustion, identity shifts, and grief. With over a decade of experience in education and mental health, I understand what it’s like to constantly care for others while feeling disconnected from yourself. Many of my clients are the ones everyone relies on—the capable, compassionate people who appear to have it together but privately feel depleted, reactive, stuck, or unsure of who they are anymore. I support clients through the often-unspoken grief of motherhood and life transitions: changes in identity, relationships, expectations, and the version of themselves they thought they would be. I also have clinical experience supporting clients through end-of-life care, which has shaped my ability to hold space for deep loss, uncertainty, and major life transitions with compassion and presence. My approach combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), mindfulness, and CBT to help clients better understand their emotions, build regulation skills, respond instead of react, and reconnect with what matters most. Therapy with me is practical, collaborative, and focused on tools you can actually use in real life. My style is warm, conversational, and direct. I believe therapy is not about becoming a “perfect” version of yourself—it’s about creating more space, clarity, and compassion while building a life that feels meaningful and aligned.
In your first session with me, you can expect a calm, supportive space where you don’t have to show up with everything figured out. We’ll take time to understand not only what brought you to therapy, but the full story—your responsibilities, relationships, stressors, strengths, and what life has felt like behind the scenes. Many of my clients are people who have spent years being the one others rely on. They may look like they’re managing, but internally they’re exhausted, overwhelmed, anxious, disconnected from themselves, or wondering how they got so far from the person they used to be. We’ll talk about what’s been hardest lately—whether that’s burnout, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, parenting struggles, grief, life transitions, or simply feeling like you’re not yourself anymore. I’ll ask questions to understand your experiences, but this is a collaborative process. There’s no pressure to tell your story perfectly or unpack everything at once. We’ll also begin exploring what you want to feel different. Maybe it’s feeling more patient with your kids, reacting less intensely, finding yourself again, navigating a loss, or learning how to carry everything you’re carrying without losing yourself in the process. When appropriate, I may introduce practical tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), mindfulness, and other evidence-based approaches to help you understand your emotions, regulate your nervous system, and create more space between what you feel and how you respond. You can expect warmth, honesty, and a judgment-free environment. My goal is for you to leave the first session feeling heard, understood, and hopeful about what’s possible. Therapy isn’t about becoming a different person—it’s about reconnecting with yourself and building a life that feels more aligned, meaningful, and manageable.
One of my greatest strengths as a therapist is creating a space where clients feel truly seen—while also helping them move toward meaningful change. I believe therapy is not about fixing what is “wrong” with you. It’s a place where you can bring the exhaustion, overwhelm, grief, uncertainty, and emotions you may have been carrying quietly for a long time. I’m especially skilled at helping clients uncover what is happening beneath the surface. Often, what looks like irritability, anxiety, shutdown, guilt, or feeling “stuck” is connected to deeper patterns, unmet needs, chronic stress, or major life transitions. I help clients put language to experiences that have felt confusing or impossible to explain. A key strength I bring is balancing emotional depth with practical support. Many of my clients—especially moms and caregivers—are used to taking care of everyone else while running on empty themselves. I help slow things down enough to understand what’s happening internally, while also building realistic tools that can be used in the middle of everyday life. I specialize in supporting clients through burnout, emotional overwhelm, anxiety, grief, and identity shifts—especially the changes that come with motherhood and major life transitions. I don’t view emotional reactions as failures; I help clients understand them with compassion and learn new ways to respond. My experience in end-of-life care has also shaped my ability to sit with difficult emotions, uncertainty, and loss. I understand that grief is not always a single event—it can show up through changes in identity, relationships, expectations, and the life you thought you would have. Clients often describe my style as warm, conversational, and direct. I bring a grounded, human presence to therapy and believe the relationship itself is a powerful part of healing. My goal is for clients to feel safe enough to be honest, supported enough to grow, and empowered to build a life that feels more aligned with who they are.
My ideal client is a mom who is carrying more than she lets on. On the outside, she’s functioning—getting the kids where they need to go, managing the household, maybe even working—but internally she feels overwhelmed, emotionally stretched thin, and often disconnected from herself. She loves her children deeply, but she also experiences moments of irritability, burnout, and guilt that leave her wondering if she’s “doing motherhood right.” She may be grieving something, even if she doesn’t always name it that way. It could be the loss of her old identity, the version of herself who had more freedom, patience, or clarity. It might also be the grief that comes with unmet expectations of motherhood, a difficult birth experience, changes in relationships, or the realization that life feels heavier than she expected. That grief often shows up as exhaustion, anxiety, or emotional reactivity, rather than clear sadness. She is self-aware and wants to do things differently, but feels stuck in patterns she can’t seem to shift—yelling, shutting down, or feeling overwhelmed by small stressors. She worries about how her emotional state is impacting her kids and deeply wants to break cycles, but doesn’t always know how to slow things down in the moment. What she really wants is relief, but also reconnection—to feel more grounded in herself, more patient with her children, and more aligned with the kind of mom she wants to be. She’s open to learning practical tools, but even more importantly, she wants space to process what she’s carrying without judgment.
Other specialties
I identify as
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
I use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help clients make space for difficult thoughts and feelings instead of fighting them, while building skills to stay grounded in what truly matters to them. Together, we focus on creating psychological flexibility—learning how to notice internal experiences without getting stuck in them, and taking meaningful action aligned with personal values. The goal isn’t to eliminate discomfort, but to help you live a fuller, more intentional life alongside it.