I offer a highly relational type of therapy for individual adolescents and adults which works with the connection between mind and body. My approach is compassionate and collaborative, yet direct and active. I help clients nonjudgmentally observe how they might avoid complicated emotions triggered in present relationships, exploring past wounds in the process. Then, through a safe and attuned therapeutic relationship, we regulate anxiety together and feel what previously might have felt too overwhelming or too scary to feel. By directly accessing the mind-body connection in this way, clients have more self-compassion and feel clearer about what they want in life.

All the time we spend thinking and doing things can make us miss important messages from our body about what we are feeling and needing. We then feel confused, anxious, or distracted. We often learn from an early age to ignore our feelings and our bodies, and this leads us to feel a lingering sense of shame and disconnection from others. In the long-term, this can result in painful and debilitating physical pain and illness, and a variety of mental health symptoms.

My main goal as a therapist is to help you become more authentically you. My approach can be extremely effective at combating self-critical thoughts and reducing your sense of emptiness or separateness. I do this by exploring how you experience our therapeutic relationship as well as other relationships in your life. As a result, you may often feel happier with the quantity and quality of your connections. You may also understand yourself better, feel more comfortable with yourself and others, and experience less pain and illness in your body.

I welcome clients from a variety of identities, cultures, life experiences, diagnoses, and lifestyles. I aim to approach our differences humbly. In my sessions I offer space to have conversations and feelings about experiences of oppression as well as explorations into privilege and power dynamics.

I am honored to be a part of the Radical Healing campus, which provides wellness services for the LGBTQ+ community. I have experience working with individuals with a variety of sexual orientations and gender identities (GNC, trans, and cis), cultural and racial identities, socioeconomic backgrounds, immigrants, folx who practice open relationships, polyamory, and monogomy, and people with different physical abilities.

I am a white cisgender woman who strives to be queer- and POC-affirming. I enjoy working with clients who hold different identities than my own, though I am happy to provide referrals to therapists who may better align with your identities and preferences if desired.