Hello! I have been practicing therapy for 9 years, and truly enjoy what I do. Working with me, you’ll likely connect some dots about relational and personal patterns you see in yourself (the “what is this?” and “why am I the way I am?”), and we will also explore what this means for you (“so what now?). My hope is that insight into yourself, and a willingness to create a change in your system will guide you to more spaciousness and freedom in anxiety, depression, reactivity in relationships, etc.  I’m not saying that therapy will solve everything. But I do think it’s worth a shot to see if you can start to untangle a few things, or grow in self-compassion and self-understanding. 

Our body remembers emotional experiences, and these past traumas can affect the way we feel and respond to things when triggered, or subtly in our daily lives. I practice a therapy called EMDR that targets the negative associations you’ve made with past experiences, helping your brain and nervous system reprocess those associations so you move forward with less reactivity to certain things. 

Space to tell your story and to be understood, first and foremost. I often identify different “parts” of you that may be feeling different things at the same time. I find this helps make things a little more linear and manageable. I hope that naming and exploring these parts actually creates healing in and of itself, but we’ll uncover other levels of change as we go. 

Losing a loved one can be earth shattering and disorienting. I also believe that grief happens when we have to let go of expectations, dreams, self-identities and abilities, etc. I help process grief by exploring what is being grieved, normalizing things that can be normalized, and helping people work toward a new reality of accepting and living with what is being grieved.