(she/her)
New to Grow
I am a trauma-informed therapist who works with adults navigating anxiety, childhood trauma, emotional overwhelm, and relationship or family-related challenges. My approach is warm, collaborative, and insight-oriented, with a focus on helping clients better understand their emotional patterns, strengthen self-awareness, and build healthier relationships with themselves and others. I strive to create a supportive and nonjudgmental space where clients can explore their experiences, process difficult emotions, and move toward meaningful and sustainable growth. My practice is intentionally designed with a limited number of client slots to help ensure I can provide thoughtful, attentive care while maintaining the mental space needed to fully support each client. I value flexibility, quality of care, and prioritizing the therapeutic experience so clients feel genuinely supported throughout their healing journey.
During our first session, we will spend time getting to know each other and exploring what brings you to therapy at this point in your life. I will ask questions about your current concerns, emotional experiences, personal history, relationships, and goals for therapy to better understand how to support you. There is no pressure to share everything immediately, and we will move at a pace that feels comfortable for you. My goal during the first session is to create a supportive and nonjudgmental space where you can begin feeling understood and safe enough to explore your experiences openly. Together, we will also discuss what you hope to gain from therapy, identify areas of focus, and begin building a collaborative therapeutic relationship that supports your healing and personal growth.
One of my greatest strengths as a therapist is helping clients develop deeper self-awareness and insight into the emotional patterns, relationship dynamics, and past experiences that continue to affect their present lives. I strive to create a warm, supportive, and nonjudgmental space where clients feel emotionally safe to explore difficult feelings, build self-understanding, and move toward meaningful change at their own pace. Clients often appreciate my ability to balance emotional exploration with practical reflection, helping them better understand both the “why” behind their experiences and the tools needed to navigate them more effectively. My approach is thoughtful, trauma-informed, and collaborative, with a strong focus on emotional regulation, relational patterns, boundaries, and long-term personal growth rather than only symptom reduction.
I work best with adult clients who experienced childhood trauma, difficult family dynamics, or emotionally invalidating environments and are seeking support in understanding how those experiences continue to affect their emotions, relationships, self-worth, and daily functioning. I help clients build self-awareness, process past experiences, strengthen emotional regulation, and develop healthier patterns in their relationship with themselves and others as part of their healing journey.
Trauma Informed Care
My work is grounded in a trauma-informed framework that recognizes how past experiences can shape emotional responses, relationships, self-perception, and nervous system regulation. In practice, I focus on creating emotional safety, helping clients understand survival responses without shame, and pacing treatment in a way that feels manageable rather than overwhelming. I often help clients increase awareness of triggers, body sensations, emotional patterns, and protective coping mechanisms while supporting greater emotional regulation and self-compassion.
Strength-Based
I use a strength-based approach by helping clients recognize their resilience, insight, values, and existing coping capacities, even during periods of distress. Rather than viewing clients only through symptoms or diagnoses, I work collaboratively to identify internal strengths, meaningful relationships, cultural values, and past successes that can support growth and healing. Many of my sessions involve helping clients shift from self-criticism toward a more balanced and empowered understanding of themselves.
Attachment-based
In my practice, I frequently help clients explore how early relationships and attachment experiences influence their current relationships, boundaries, fears, and emotional needs. I support clients in identifying patterns such as people-pleasing, fear of abandonment, emotional avoidance, or difficulty trusting others. My work often involves helping clients build healthier relational boundaries, tolerate vulnerability, and develop more secure ways of relating to themselves and others.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I use CBT techniques to help clients identify connections between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. In sessions, I often help clients recognize unhelpful thinking patterns, self-critical beliefs, catastrophizing, or rigid expectations that contribute to emotional distress. I integrate CBT collaboratively and flexibly alongside deeper emotional and relational work rather than using it in a strictly structured manner.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
I incorporate mindfulness-based interventions to help clients become more aware of their emotional and physiological states in the present moment. This includes helping clients slow down automatic reactions, notice body sensations, identify emotional activation, and improve grounding skills. I often integrate mindfulness in a practical and accessible way, particularly for clients experiencing anxiety, emotional overwhelm, trauma responses, or difficulty staying connected to their internal experiences.