Services
- Individual
About My Clients
You're a third culture kid, struggling with chronic rootlessness, identity confusion, and exhausting social disconnection. Instead, you long for self-understanding, emotional confidence, and a genuine sense of belonging. Or maybe you navigating infertility and pregnancy loss and feeling the invisible grief, isolation, and sense of bodily betrayal. You long to have your sorrow witnessed, and reclaim meaning.
My Background and Approach
My gentle, calm presence naturally creates a space where people can feel safe to feel truly seen, especially for those who have felt misunderstood for most of their lives. With both humility and courage, I offer insight and wisdom shaped by my professional training, as well as my personal journey through the loneliness and grief of navigating cultural identity and experiencing infertility. I have specific training in integrating psychology and Christian theology and specialized training in treating anxiety. I have lots of experience working with expats living internationally as well as navigating reentry. Together, we'll work to understand how your layered past is shaping your present, and how to respond to your own emotional experience with curiosity and compassion rather than judgment or shame. We'll witness your sorrow, reclaim a sense of meaning, and gain the ability to move forward without leaving yourself behind.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Many people come to therapy hoping to get rid of an emotion. Less sadness. Less anger. Less fear. But if we did that, you’d lose out on the very information and motivation you came looking for. Growing up, most of us did not learn how to feel and move through our emotions in helpful ways. We learned to stuff them, avoid them, or numb them. One of the first parts of therapy is increasing your tolerance for painful emotions, so you can really see what’s there. Like any new skill, this takes practice. The more you practice, the stronger your “emotion muscle” will get. Often the main reason you avoid your own emotions is fear of judgment, from others and from yourself. What if you learned to approach your emotions with curiosity instead? Many of us believe judgment is what motivates us to change. It isn’t. Compassion does a much better job. Therapy gives you the space to experience compassion in place of judgment so you can move more freely and find the creative solutions you need.