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About My Clients
Were you adopted or love someone who was? Do you struggle with feeling “not good enough,” “unlovable,” people-pleasing or stuck in ways you can’t explain? Even when life seems generally fine, adoption-related attachment wounds can quietly impact connection and a sense of belonging. I support adoptees and their loved ones in exploring these layers with compassion and curiosity, helping you move toward healing, authenticity, and deeper connection with yourself and others.
My Background and Approach
My approach to therapy is grounded in the belief that we are the experts of our own lives—even when we may not feel like it. Rooted in a Humanistic perspective, I meet each person where they are while drawing from modalities such as CBT, IFS, Family Systems, Integrative Attachment Family Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, the Hakomi Method, Somatic Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, and CCPT. I recognize how deeply shame can shape our experiences, often beginning in childhood and continuing into adulthood. Integrating the Healing Shame framework (developed by Sheila Rubin and the late Bret Lyon), I help clients gently uncover and transform these patterns. My work is trauma-informed, collaborative, and attuned to each person’s unique needs and goals. My goal is to provide a safe, empathetic, curious and nurturing space where individuals can explore, heal, and reconnect with their authentic selves—moving toward growth, repair, and thriving.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe adoption is both profoundly beautiful and deeply tragic. It creates families and possibilities, yet its modern narrative often centers adoptive parents’ desires over the child’s experience. This “savior” framing can overshadow the profound grief, loss, and pre-verbal trauma many adoptees carry—pain that lives in the body and shows up as disconnection, anxiety, or confusion. These effects ripple outward, impacting relationships and leaving loved ones feeling equally distant or misunderstood. Through my own healing journey, I’ve learned to hold both the love and the loss, to honor the complexity of adoption, and to bridge the divide between pain and connection. Reclaiming my story allowed me to move from living in trauma responses to embodying authenticity, self-compassion, and genuine connection. My hope is to help others find that same wholeness within themselves and their relationships.