Finding Hope and Healing

Reaching out to a therapist can be one of the hardest steps in the healing process. If you’re here, you’ve already taken a major step by recognizing that your emotional well-being matters. None of us are meant to navigate life alone, and it takes genuine courage to seek support and begin exploring your story with depth and honesty.

I provide holistic, trauma-informed therapy for individuals across the lifespan—from older teens to adults in midlife and beyond. Whether you're facing a major change, a creative block, or long-standing emotional pain, therapy offers space for clarity, healing, and growth.

How I Work

Mind–Body–Relationship Focus

My approach is grounded in interpersonal neurobiology (IPNB) and attachment theory, exploring how your brain, body, and relationships shape your experience. Because healing happens through the nervous system, we pay close attention to nervous system regulation and how your body has learned to protect you. We are all born for connection and attachment. As exquisitely wired beings, sometimes the paths we take to get these needs met as best as we can result in habits that no longer serve us. In therapy we explore the experience of the past to help make sense of the struggles of the present.

Whole Person, Not a Diagnosis

I look at the full context of your life—your history, patterns, strengths, and internal world—rather than reducing you to a label. Everything you do makes sense in light of what your lived experience.

Parts Work & Integration

Using parts work, we explore the different aspects of you with compassion and curiosity. This helps you understand why certain reactions show up and how to create new ways of being. As we get to know your part in a non-judgmental way, new possibilities for healing emerge.

Boundaries & Self-Compassion

Boundaries are much talked about, and too often, misunderstood. Healthy boundaries actually protect our relationships and can even make them stronger. We will look at where your boundaries serve you, and where they need attention. In all of my work, I bring in the idea of cultivating self-compassion—another essential foundation for emotional freedom and well-being.

Direct, Engaged, and Supportive

My style is warm, engaged, and collaborative. I use humor, ask thoughtful questions, and stay actively involved. I can be direct and take a coaching-style approach when needed, and I make a strong, steady accountability partner as you work toward real change.

Sometimes this means holding the space you need to unpack what you are feeling and have been through. Other times, it may mean supporting you as you lean into the hard stuff and experience the discomfort that is often required by growth.

Modalities

I integrate a range of evidence-based approaches, including:

• Attachment-based therapy

• Parts Work & Ego State therapy

• Sensorimotor/somatic therapy

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

• Mindfulness-based approaches

• Polyvagal theory and nervous system regulation

• EMDR (EMDR can be woven into our work at any point to help process trauma, reduce anxiety, or move through emotional blocks stored in the body)

Who I Work With

• Creatives & Highly Sensitive People

  Artists, writers, performers, designers, and anyone who identifies as creative or highly-sensitive. Together we work on self-doubt, burnout, perfectionism, and reconnecting to your authentic voice.

• People in Life Transitions

  Career changes, identity shifts, new parenthood, empty nesting, retirement, or periods of reinvention. Therapy offers grounding and clarity during times of change.

• Those Feeling Stuck in Old Patterns

  If you find yourself repeating familiar dynamics or emotional loops, we explore those patterns with compassion and create room for new ways of being.

• Adults Healing from Trauma

  Including relational trauma, childhood wounds, complex trauma, or the effects of emotionally chaotic environments. We move at a pace that feels safe and steady, integrating EMDR and nervous system work as needed.

• Individuals Seeking Better Boundaries & More Self-Compassion

  We build the internal skills that support healthier relationships and greater emotional ease.

• Clients Wanting an Engaged Therapist

  If you want a therapist who is warm, involved, and not afraid to be honest, we’ll likely be a good fit.

Our Work Together

Sometimes therapy means grounding and making space for what you’ve been carrying. At other times, it means practicing new skills, trying new approaches, or stepping into the discomfort that signals growth. We work at your pace, but we don’t stay stuck.

Whatever brings you here, we will explore where you’ve been so you can more intentionally move toward who—and how—you want to be.

Contact me to schedule a free, 20-minute consultation to explore how we might work together. You’ve come this far, let’s get started today.