Here to Help You Heal
Finding the time and energy for therapy can be hard. Then there’s the strange task of explaining the full context of you to a stranger. Maybe one thing requires explaining five others first. Maybe you spend most of the hour catching someone up and don’t quite get to what you meant to talk about. And sometimes you’ve said it, analyzed it, understood it, and still don’t feel any better.
I think therapy gets more interesting when we can be honest about all of that.
The adults and adolescents I work well with don’t necessarily share a diagnosis, background, or reason for seeking help. What they often share is curiosity, some healthy skepticism, and a desire for a therapist they can be real with while working through anxiety, depression, shame, creative blocks, relationship challenges, life transitions, and the harder-to-name reasons people come to therapy.
I believe you deserve to feel better, but I don’t think I get to decide what “better” should look like for you. You know your life in a way I never can, and I take that seriously. I see therapy as something we build together: I bring my training and perspective, and you bring everything I couldn’t possibly know from a diagnosis or a few sessions.
My Approach to Care
I take an integrative approach to psychotherapy, drawing from different approaches depending on your needs, goals, history, and the way you make sense of the world. My style is conversational, candid, creative, and nonjudgmental.
My work is influenced by narrative therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and psychodynamic thinking. I’m particularly interested in shame, self-compassion, and the ways we learn to cope.
Time spent in outpatient substance use treatment and crisis work shaped the harm-reduction lens I bring to therapy, emphasizing autonomy, reducing harm, and recognizing that change doesn’t have to be all-or-nothing.
Most of all, I want our work to feel real. I’m collaborative and human in the room: I ask questions, share what I notice, offer my perspective, and invite your feedback.
A Journey into Exceptional Patient Care
Becoming a therapist wasn’t a linear path for me. I studied creative writing and worked in marketing before returning to school for social work. Changing careers taught me that it’s possible to invest in one version of your life and still decide you want something different.
Personal Interests
Outside of work, I like making Spotify playlists with overly specific names, reading and writing fiction, doodling, working my way through The Artist’s Way, analyzing reality TV, fun pens, and breakfast food.
