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About My Clients
I work with individuals and couples navigating anxiety, depression, relationship conflict, and the lasting effects of trauma. Many of my clients are untangling avoidant, anxious, or disorganized attachment styles that show up as difficulty trusting, connecting, or feeling secure in their relationships. I also work with neurodivergent burnout — including burnout related to ADHD and autism — helping clients understand their own nervous system and build a life that actually fits how they're wired,
My Approach to Helping
I spent 10 years as a massage and CranioSacral therapist before becoming a psychotherapist, and I've now been an LMHC for 23 years. That earlier work showed me how much emotional experience lives in the body, long before I had language for it clinically. Somatic work has stayed central to my practice. My approach integrates somatic therapy, attachment theory, interpersonal neurobiology, and mindfulness, with a relational lens throughout. We heal in relationship, so we'll look at how the systems you grew up in, and the relationships you're in now, have shaped your patterns. I also understand the chronic stress of being neurodivergent in a neurotypical world — masking, sensory overload, and constantly adapting to systems that weren't built for your brain. A lot of what gets labeled a personal struggle often makes more sense once we name the neurodivergent stressors underneath it. In session, we look at how it shows up in your body, not just your thinking — and work from there.
Why I Became a Therapist
I started as a massage therapist, doula, and CranioSacral therapist, working with pregnant women and infants. Birth trauma wasn't just held in the infant's body — it was held in the parents' too, leading me to treat the whole family. The body holds emotion, and releasing it is often where healing happens, though some clients needed to tell their story too. Wanting to hold both led me to become a therapist. I worked with families, then mostly adults. I hold a systemic view: healing one part of a system can shift the whole. Interpersonal Neurobiology became central to my work, integrating somatic experience, attachment theory, and Polyvagal theory. More recently, neurodivergence in my own family has been eye-opening, as has understanding ableism — both connect to my values around social justice and nonviolent communication. Healing happens in a relationship. Attachment patterns shift once we understand what they were protecting, often through being cared for, not alone.