Services
- Individual
About My Clients
You’re a good-enough parent, but it doesn’t feel like enough. The anxiety, the constant decision making, the things you’ve successfully avoided for years are turning you into someone you don't like. Your life feels as if its spinning off it’s axis. You don’t want to lead just another instagram-perfect life. You want your insides to match your outside. I help parents recover from anxiety and shame, heal from traumatic experiences, and re-work unhelpful generational cycles.
My Background and Approach
I have lots of experience helping people find relief from anxiety and shame-related challenges. I’m extensively trained in Trauma-Focused and Trauma-Sensitive work and am rostered to provide Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I’ve also been extensively trained in Dialectic Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Subtle Yoga, Maternal Mental Health and Theraplay. I am comfortable sitting with you in the hard feelings, but will not leave you there to suffer alone or without the tools you need to move forward. I help people (especially parents) who long to feel supported and knowledgeable but feel caught in an echo chamber of conflicting advice and support-with-strings-attached. I nudge them (gently, and with plenty of goofy jokes) to small changes (which often lead to very, very big changes) and increased self-knowledge so that they can feel as if their best is truly good enough.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I’m a yoga teacher, semi-committed runner, voracious reader and life-long curiosity seeker. I am the parent to young children. I’m a partner to a pretty cool husband. I’m a dedicated life-long learner and super-cool person who does research for fun (and to procrastinate from say… putting the laundry away). I’m a little bit hippie-dippy, and a lot of bit evidence-based. I tell cheesy jokes, read a ton, listen to more podcasts than is reasonable for any one human, and have a group chat with my best friends that means I often come back to my phone to 436 unread messages. I’m a cisgender, white woman with She/Her pronouns, I’m LGBTQ+ affirming and constantly trying to acknowledge my own privilege in this world. I won’t understand what it’s like to be you, so I promise to listen well and believe you and your experiences. I’ll acknowledge what I don’t know, keep my mind wide-open and never ask you to speak for everyone who has some similarities to you.