About My Clients
I work with adults, couples, and families, with a particular emphasis on women ages 16 and older across every stage of life. My clients often enter therapy in the wake of an experience that has altered how they understand themselves: grief, trauma, betrayal, infidelity, shifting family roles, or a major life transition. The work is not simply about getting through what happened, but defining who you are now that it has. I work best with clients seeking deep, transformational work.
My Background and Approach
For more than 17 years, I have worked across the mental health and addiction field, including a decade leading a treatment center through crisis, complex clinical care, and long-term recovery. That experience taught me to remain steady in complexity, look beyond the presenting problem, and understand people within the context of what they have survived and carried forward. My approach is warm, direct, and deeply engaged. I do not sit silently or offer polished language that never reaches the actual problem. I draw from multiple therapeutic orientations, tailoring the work to the person in front of me rather than forcing every client into a one-size-fits-all model. Therapy is not about placing a bow on experiences that changed you. It is about understanding what happened, what it required you to become, and what you no longer need to carry forward. Together, we make room for honest reflection, difficult conversations, and change that reaches beyond symptom management.
Why I Became a Therapist
I became a therapist because two women changed the course of my life. One taught me that grief is not a single emotion or a problem to solve. Loss could exist beside anger, connection, meaning, and the work of reimagining a life I had not chosen. The other recognized something in me before I could claim it for myself. She challenged me, held me accountable, advocated for me, and refused to let pain limit my potential. Through them, I learned that meaningful therapy is neither passive nor performative. It is the experience of being known honestly, supported without being rescued, and challenged without being abandoned. I understand what can happen when another person remains present through the parts of life that do not resolve neatly. I became a therapist to offer that same depth of relationship: a place where grief and growth can coexist, difficult truths can be spoken safely, and people can discover who they are beyond what happened to them.