In our first session together, here's what you can expect

First sessions can be really overwhelming. It is a courageous and vulnerable thing to trust a stranger with the tough stuff, but the more I know about you and what you are trying to accomplish, the better able I am to help you find your way there. I try to collect as much information as possible before and during our sessions to build an appropriate working diagnosis as we get going. When we first meet, you can expect a basic review of informed consent, limits of confidentiality, and expectations. Then we spend as much time as possible identifying specific challenges you're facing. I will do everything in my power to engage you in building rapport as well as tailor our dialog and help craft a treatment plan to meet your unique and specific strengths and needs. Your honesty and thoughtfulness make a big difference in the process.

The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions

Therapy is a time (and space) limited activity – a timely relationship where it is my role to hold space, instill hope, shine a light, and act as a metaphorical mirror while clients explore their inner world. I am here to witness, relate, validate, and guide. I love challenges and problem solving. An area of strength for me is story telling and engaging others in sharing their stories to help them feel truly seen and heard. I enjoy combining clinical knowledge with wisdom gained from personal experience and the rapport and connection that results from fostering an honest and authentic relationship with my clients. Perhaps my greatest strength as a provider is that I am transparent about my life and growth adventures when appropriate in order to model perspectives and skills that might be supportive. I've also been told I have "big mom energy" so if you are deep in a process of reparenting, navigating big changes and new levels of individuation, and/or just needing support with learning how to better meet your needs as an adult, then I am happy to share that "big mom" energy with you. I strive to live my values out loud and practice what I preach. I genuinely delight in walking along side clients wherever they are on their personal journey for as long as they need me.

The clients I'm best positioned to serve

My current practice is focused on providing remote/virtual clients support navigating and managing a variety of general mental health issues. I also specialize in providing long term maintenance support for those impacted by issues related to neurodivergence, especially accurately assessing, diagnosing, and managing ADHD through out the lifespan. While I have experience working with individuals and groups of all ages in a variety of settings – including mental health agencies, school settings, and day treatment facilities—I have spent the most time working with teens and young adults providing in-person direct mental health care and behavioral counseling via individual, group, and family therapy sessions. I have deeply enjoyed moving to working only with adults at this time and growing in this area professionally as well as flexing my skills via remote work with the unique opportunities telehealth offers for clients to access needed care. My clients are eager to improve, but don't yet have the tools needed to make this goal a reality. They often feel stuck, overwhelmed and anxious about their roles and identity. They may be struggling to put words to how they are feeling and often have deeply entrenched negative beliefs creating barriers to living whole hearted and authentic lives. I partner with anyone willing to do the longer harder work therapy asks of us in order to discover and enhance ones strengths as well as deepen their self-awareness and shift maladaptive patterns in their relationships to ultimate hopefully help cultivate a vibrant life with resilience and self-compassion.