My Focus:
Most of what brings people to therapy has roots they haven't fully seen yet. The anxiety, the shutdown, the pattern that keeps repeating…these aren't character flaws or failures of willpower. They're responses that developed for good reasons, usually long before the person had much say in the matter. My work is focused on understanding those responses at their source, not managing them at the surface.
I'm particularly drawn to working with shame, complex trauma, and what happens inside when someone has spent years managing, performing, and holding it all together. This often shows up as a disconnect between how capable someone appears and how stuck or hollow they feel underneath. That gap is usually where the most important work lives.
Working together:
I work with individual adults who are largely functioning — showing up for their lives and the people in them — but carrying something underneath that costs them more than it should. Many have been managing it for a long time. Most aren't in crisis. They're just tired of running the same patterns and ready to do something different.
Therapy may help you:
Understand what's actually driving the patterns you can't seem to shake: the relationship that keeps going sideways, the job you can't make yourself care about, the reaction you regret every time.
Feel more at home in yourself: less performance, more presence.
Relate to your inner world with curiosity instead of dread: so the quiet moments don't feel like something to survive.
Make sense of reactions that feel out of proportion: the shutdown, the outburst, the wall that goes up before you even realize it.
Carry less shame about the parts of you that are hardest to look at: the things you do, feel, or think that you wish were different.
Have more choices in how you respond in relationships, work, and daily life: instead of the same move that keeps repeating.
Lead your life from a more grounded, settled place: not without struggle, but with less muscling-through it!
What makes me different:
I show up as a real person, not a blank slate. The relationship between us is part of the work, not separate from it.
Every part of your identity is welcome. Race, ethnicity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, alternative lifestyles, national origin, military status, disability - all of it has a place here.
I am a therapist in therapy. It's part of how I take care of myself and how I stay good at this work.
Before becoming a therapist, I spent years in healthcare administration and leadership. I understand the particular pressures of demanding professional environments and clients don't have to translate that world for me.
Ready to get started:
If any of this resonates, I'd encourage you to reach out. You don't have to have it figured out to take the first step. I offer a free 10-minute consultation so we can get a sense of fit before committing to anything. Click here for next steps.