LMFT, 6 years of experience
New to Grow
I am a therapist dedicated to helping individuals and families navigate addiction, anxiety, and life’s most challenging transitions. My journey into this work began with a deep passion for understanding human relationships and the emotional patterns that shape our lives. As an integrative therapist, I draw from a wide range of evidence-based modalities and emphasize the mind-body-heart-spirit connection informed by my background as a ballroom dancer and integrative nutrition coach.
In your first session, you can expect a grounded, compassionate space where we move at your pace. We’ll begin by exploring what brought you to therapy, what you’re struggling with, and what you hope will feel different in your life. I’ll ask thoughtful, open-ended questions to understand your history, current concerns, strengths, and the patterns that may be influencing your well-being. This session is also an opportunity for you to get a sense of my style, ask questions, and share anything that feels important for me to know. Together, we’ll begin to clarify your goals and outline a direction for our work, whether it involves healing trauma, navigating addiction or recovery, managing anxiety, building self-esteem, strengthening boundaries, or creating healthier relational patterns. Above all, you can expect to be met with curiosity, respect, and a collaborative approach centered on your comfort and readiness.
What stands out about my therapeutic approach is the integrative, whole-person lens I bring to every session. I don’t believe in one-size-fits-all therapy. Instead, I blend evidence-based modalities with a deep appreciation for the mind-body-heart-spirit connection, ensuring clients receive support that honors both their emotional and physiological experiences. My work is rooted in trauma-informed care, attachment theory, somatic awareness, and parts work, allowing clients to safely explore the origins of their pain, not just manage the symptoms. My clients often share that therapy with me feels both grounding and transformative: they feel truly seen, deeply understood, and gently challenged in ways that promote meaningful growth. I help individuals identify the patterns that keep them stuck, reconnect with their inner strengths, and build sustainable tools for emotional regulation, recovery, and self-worth. By weaving together curiosity, compassion, and clinical precision, I guide clients toward lasting internal shifts, creating space for clarity, confidence, and profound healing.
I support individuals who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, trauma responses, self-doubt, perfectionism, people-pleasing, or addiction and are ready to understand the deeper patterns driving their emotional experience. Many of my clients are navigating recovery, healing from complex or relational trauma, working through burnout, or moving through major life transitions, and want a safe, grounded space to explore their inner world. I work especially well with clients who are curious, self-reflective, and open to integrative mind-body-spirit approaches, individuals who want not just symptom relief, but meaningful, lasting change. Whether you're seeking support with addiction, trauma healing, healthier boundaries, greater self-esteem, or a more compassionate relationship with yourself, I’m here to walk with you through that transformative work.
I integrate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help clients identify and challenge unhelpful thought patterns that contribute to emotional distress. I guide clients in examining the connection between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and support them in developing healthier, more adaptive cognitive and behavioral responses. Through structured exercises, worksheets, and real-time skill application, clients learn to reframe negative thinking, build coping strategies, and increase emotional regulation.
I use attachment-based therapy to help clients understand how early relational experiences shape their current emotional patterns, beliefs, and interpersonal functioning. I work with clients to identify attachment wounds, explore relational triggers, and recognize how unmet needs from childhood may be influencing present-day behavior and relationships. By fostering a safe, attuned therapeutic environment, I support clients in developing corrective emotional experiences, strengthening secure attachment strategies, and building healthier ways of connecting with themselves and others. This approach allows clients to deepen self-awareness, improve emotional regulation, and cultivate more stable and fulfilling relationships.
I utilize Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to help clients safely process traumatic memories, reduce emotional reactivity, and develop more adaptive beliefs about themselves. I start by building a strong foundation of stabilization, including resourcing, grounding, and creating a safe/calm state. Once clients are prepared, we target distressing memories and use bilateral stimulation to support the brain’s natural capacity to heal and reprocess unresolved experiences. I’ve had great success using this modality because it allows clients to move beyond traditional talk therapy, access deeper emotional material, and experience noticeable reductions in symptoms such as anxiety, intrusive thoughts, shame, and somatic distress. EMDR has consistently helped clients release long-held trauma and replace it with more empowering, resilient beliefs.
I have extensive experience using this treatment method within couples therapy to help partners understand the emotional roots of their reactions, strengthen communication, and repair relational wounds. In my work with couples, I integrate this approach to explore each partner’s attachment history, core beliefs, and emotional triggers, and how these patterns play out in the relationship. By helping each partner recognize the underlying needs and fears driving conflict, I facilitate more empathetic interactions and healthier communication. I use this method to slow down reactive cycles, support each partner in expressing emotions more effectively, and guide them toward secure attachment behaviors such as validation, attunement, and consistent responsiveness. This work often leads to increased emotional safety, reduced defensiveness, and greater intimacy. My experience has shown that applying this framework in couples therapy creates meaningful opportunities for healing, deeper connection, and long-term relationship resilience.
I have extensive experience using Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with individual clients, particularly those who struggle with emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, intense mood fluctuations, and difficulty tolerating distress. In my practice, I integrate DBT’s core skill areas—mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness—to help clients gain greater control over their emotional responses and build healthier coping strategies. I use DBT to teach clients how to stay grounded in the present moment, reduce self-destructive behaviors, and navigate triggering situations with more stability and clarity. Through structured skill-building, worksheets, and real-time practice in sessions, clients learn to identify emotional patterns, challenge automatic reactions, and replace them with more adaptive responses. I’ve had strong success with this modality, as many clients report improved emotional resilience, fewer crises, better communication skills, and a greater sense of empowerment in managing their daily lives.