About Me

I was initially drawn to therapy because at my center, I am someone who loves to have deep conversations. I thrive when I’m connecting with people about what matters most to them. Even as a child I was quickly annoyed by surface-level chat and wanted long, rich quality time with others. Being a therapist serves this beautifully: I get the privilege of meeting with people who want to understand what makes them tick, and I guide them in healing parts of themselves that got hurt along the way.

I started out as a play therapist, working with young children. Fairly quickly I realized that where I was getting the most energy and excitement was actually in my parent-sessions, where I could sit with the child’s important adults and help them process challenges. After I became a mother I navigated my own intense identity questions, and both post-partum anxiety and depression, as I tried to balance raising two babies and running my business and still feeling like myself in the world. Experiencing my own profound struggles with thriving in all aspects of my identity and slowly moving through those challenges, led me to loving to work with other women who are deeply in that space of healing, change, and ultimately- growth.

While my core as a therapist is someone who loves to connect deeply and have philosophical conversations about how best to live, I am also informed by a wide variety of modalities of healing. I am an EMDR-certified therapist, meaning I have a great deal of compassion and understanding of how we protect ourselves from pain through sometimes maladaptive behaviors. I have studied polyvagal theory to understand how our nervous systems respond to stress and how mindfulness and connection to others can bring us into a space of thriving. I am a trauma-informed yoga teacher and bring body awareness and movement into the room. I look at each of us as a system of parts, each part working to help ourselves survive, but sometimes needing a little guidance to harmonize as a whole. I believe we each come into the world fully whole and enough, and part of our journey in therapy is learning to let go of the experiences that led us to believe we were anything less than that.