LMHC, 10 years of experience
You Don’t Have to Pretend You’re Okay Anymore From the outside, it looks like you’re doing fine — the kids are cared for, your marriage is solid, the house runs smoothly. But inside, it’s heavy. You wake up tired. You go through the motions. You keep smiling so no one asks questions. Most days, you feel numb — like you’re just existing instead of living. The guilt for feeling this way only makes it worse. You love your family deeply, but you feel far away from them... and from yourself. You’ve caught yourself thinking, if I just didn’t wake up tomorrow, maybe that wouldn’t be so bad. You’ve tried to shake it off — to be grateful, to get busy, to make it better. But nothing sticks. You just want the noise in your head to quiet down. You want to feel like you again — or maybe figure out who that even is now. Here, you don’t have to hold it all together. You can let it out. You can sit in silence. You can just be. No pretending. No judgment. Just honesty.
How We’ll Work Together In our sessions, you don’t have to filter anything. We slow down, breathe, and start tapping into what’s been buried — the emotions you’ve had to hold in for too long. Sometimes that means crying. Sometimes it’s silence. Sometimes it’s just naming the heaviness for what it is. My role is to meet you right where you are — no expectations, no timeline — and walk beside you as you begin to reconnect with yourself. Together, we’ll make space for everything you’ve been carrying, and through mindful self-compassion, start to soften the edges of the pain. You won’t have to pretend here. You get to be fully human — and we’ll move at your pace, one small, steady step at a time.
What Healing Can Feel Like One day, you wake up and realize life is worth living. You find yourself in the present moment — laughing with your kids, feeling your husband’s hand in yours, noticing a quiet sense of peace where the heaviness used to sit. You begin to trust that the lightness isn’t fleeting. That you’re capable of sustaining it. That hope isn’t something “out there” — it’s been inside you all along, waiting to be felt again.
You’ve carried this for so long. You deserve a space to lay it down. You may not believe it yet, but healing is possible. When you’re ready to take the first small step toward feeling alive again — I’ll meet you there.
Making Sense of the Thoughts That Pull You Down In the beginning, we focus on helping you understand the thoughts that make everything feel heavier — the “I should be happier,” “I’m failing,” or “nothing ever works for long” loops that play in the background. With CBT, we slow down enough to notice these patterns and begin separating you from the thoughts that are hurting you. You don’t have to “think positive” — that’s not what this is. Instead, I help you see the emotional stories your mind has been telling and gently shift them into something more truthful and less punishing. This is often where your sense of “I might be broken” starts to soften.
Reconnecting You With Yourself Again When you’re not just surviving anymore, we shift into reconnecting — with your body, your breath, your relationships, and the parts of yourself you’ve been disconnected from. Mindfulness-based therapy helps you: Slow down enough to feel present Notice moments of peace — even small ones Develop self-compassion instead of self-criticism Reconnect to meaning, purpose, and hope It’s the phase where you begin to actually feel again — not in a scary or overwhelming way, but in a human way. This is where many moms say they start waking up with a sense that life might be worth living again.
Finding Stability When Your Emotions Feel Too Big or Too Numb Once you start noticing your thoughts, we begin working with the emotional waves underneath. DBT gives us practical tools — real-world, mom-life tools — to help you feel less overwhelmed and more steady. Together, we’ll: Learn how to ride out intense emotions without shutting down Build skills to respond instead of react Strengthen your ability to stay grounded when everything feels like “too much” Create space between you and the spiral This isn’t about perfection. It’s about giving you the internal stability you’ve been craving — the ability to get through a hard day with fewer moments of snapping, zoning out, or feeling like you’re drowning.
How These Approaches Work Together We move in this order — CBT → Mindfulness → DBT — because this mirrors how healing naturally unfolds: We understand what’s happening in your mind. We help you reconnect with yourself and create a life that feels meaningful. We build emotional stability so you don’t feel swallowed by your feelings. Healing isn’t linear, but this framework brings structure to the chaos and gives you something solid to lean on as you move forward.