Services
- Individual
- Group
About My Clients
I work with women who have gotten so accustomed to feeling stuck, they’ve started to believe that maybe "it" just isn't for them. They wonder if maybe they’re not special. Maybe they’re just one of the millions of people who have mundane lives with mundane relationships and mundane sex and mundane jobs and mundane food and mediocre happiness (or no happiness at all). They’re tired, they’re stuck, disappointed, depressed, anxious. They know they’re capable, but they don’t know what to do.
My Background and Approach
Licensed counselor and expert in attachment theory, relationship healing, and body work with a decade of experience in research and practice, I have helped clients heal from deeply embedded trauma, move on from toxic relationships, and create thriving, joyful lives. I trained with my mentor Dr. Stephanie Ellis, learning a humanistic and experiential approach to healing. This means I prioritize validating my clients' emotions and experiences, and we use that as your foundation. This is vital, because many of us grew up having our experiences and emotions invalidated by our caregivers and those who were meant to keep us safe and loved. Deeply prizing my clients helps us co-create a secure relationship in which your nervous system can begin to heal. I'm also trained in yoga and hypnotherapy. I integrate all of these so that you can embody healing in your conscious AND unconscious mind, and your body. This empowers my clients to have profound experiences of safety within themselves.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
My own history of growing up with an alcoholic father, who was also abused by his father, has informed my approach to healing. I have intuited from a young age that treating each other chaotically, violently, and hatefully is not how things should be. Turns out, the research on safety, neurological development, relationships, and more validates what I --and you-- have always known. I deeply believe that by healing attachment trauma, we can heal on both micro and macro levels. Attachment trauma is at the heart of perfectionism, fear, family dysfunction, generational trauma, viewing people who are different as a threatening "other"-- racism, abuse, toxic masculinity, LGBTQIA+ phobia, anti-fat bias, ableism, and systems based on holding power over others. Likewise, secure attachment is at the heart of joyful connection and relationships, bravely speaking truth, open-mindedness, excitement and curiosity, empathy, compassion, and systems based on collective empowerment and equity.