Services
- Individual
About My Clients
I work with adults who are deeply self-aware but still feel stuck in patterns they understand intellectually and can't yet shift emotionally. My clients are often creative, neurodivergent, highly sensitive, or LGBTQ+ — people who have always existed outside the box and are exhausted by spaces that flatten their complexity. I specialize in trauma, identity, anxiety, emotional dysregulation, and the particular weight of moving through a world not built for the way your mind works.
My Background
I hold a Master of Social Work and am licensed as an LICSW and LADC in Minnesota and LCSW in Oregon. I have completed EMDRIA-approved EMDR training and am trained in the Anchored Relational Model, currently receiving consultation toward certification. Additional training includes Emotionally Focused Therapy (Level 1). My approach is informed by Systems Theory, Depth Psychology, and Predictive Processing Theory. I am committed to practicing in ways that actively resist the pathologizing, gatekeeping, and power imbalances embedded in traditional mental health systems. Decolonizing therapy, to me, means centering the client's own knowledge of their experience, honoring the context that shaped them, and refusing to treat difference as disorder. My work is relational, trauma-informed, and neuroscience-grounded. Rather than focusing on symptoms, we explore how your patterns developed, what they protected, and how to create change that feels sustainable and aligned with who you are.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Healing is not something I “do” to someone. I see people as systems that adapted brilliantly to survive what they have been through. Sometimes those adaptations stop working — or start costing more than they protect. Therapy, to me, is where we get curious about those patterns together, at a pace that the nervous system can actually tolerate. I came to this work in part because of my own experience — being late-diagnosed with ADHD and spending much of my life navigating systems, environments, and expectations that were not built for the way my mind works. I understand what it is like to be unconventional, to resist fitting into neat boxes, and to have that perceived as a “problem” rather than something that is brilliant and necessary in the world we all live in today. I believe the therapeutic relationship is a partnership. The client leads. My role is to accompany, reflect, and help create the conditions for something different to become possible.