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About My Clients
I work with clients who are dependable, high achievers, people-pleasers, or the person everyone turns to. Maybe you were called “mature for your age,” an “old soul,” or a former gifted kid who learned that being successful, independent, and easy to love meant putting yourself last. You may be navigating anxiety, trauma, perfectionism, burnout, overthinking, neurodivergence, masking, relationship patterns, or the feeling that you should be able to handle everything on your own.
My Background and Approach
I’m a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT) and Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist (BC-DMT). My approach integrates talk therapy with somatic, creative, and experiential work. I believe insight is valuable, but sometimes knowing why you do something isn’t enough to change it. That’s where body-based and experiential work can offer another way in. Together, we’ll get curious about the patterns you’ve developed and the needs underneath them. Sessions may include conversation and reflection, body awareness, movement, creative expression, parts work, or exploring something as it happens between us. How much we talk, move, create, or simply notice will depend on what feels useful to you. You don’t need to know exactly what you need before we begin. We’ll figure that out together.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Many of the patterns you’re struggling with developed for a reason. Your perfectionism, people-pleasing, overthinking, independence, or constant need to stay on top of everything may have helped you navigate earlier chapters of your life. I don’t want to take those parts away or treat them like problems to eliminate. Instead, I believe we can become curious about what those patterns have been trying to accomplish and what they might need from you now. I believe your body has information worth listening to, that creativity can open doors words sometimes can’t, and that understanding yourself should ultimately give you more choices, not more things to fix. I also believe you shouldn’t have to earn rest, care, belonging, or compassion by being productive, agreeable, successful, or easy to be around. Therapy can be a place to practice taking up space, listening to yourself, and figuring out what you actually want when you’re not organizing your life around everyone else.