Services
- Individual
- Adolescent/Teen
About My Clients
I work best with teens (16+), young adults, and adults who are navigating anxiety that won't settle, processing trauma that keeps showing up, figuring out who they're becoming after major life shifts, or noticing relationship patterns on repeat. Many of my clients are in their late teens through thirties—dealing with identity questions, first serious relationships, family-of-origin stuff surfacing, or building a life that feels authentic.
My Background and Approach
I became a therapist because I kept seeing people stuck in the same loops—carrying trauma they didn't have words for, feeling anxious in ways that made perfect sense once we understood what was underneath. I wanted to help people actually move through that, not just manage it. I specialize in EMDR for trauma processing, which can be surprisingly effective for experiences that talk therapy alone hasn't resolved. I also work with anxiety regulation, identity exploration (especially around life transitions, sexuality, or shifting values), and relationship patterns that feel automatic or stuck. I pull from trauma-focused, somatic, and relational approaches, but I'm not interested in cookie-cutter therapy. Sessions are built around what actually fits for you. My approach is collaborative and grounded. I'm direct when it's helpful, but this is your process—I'm here to help you make sense of what's happening and find what works, not to tell you how to live your life. Licensed in NC.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Therapy with me is explicitly anti-ableist, antiracist, LGBTQIA+ affirming, and neurodivergent-affirming. I don't pathologize what makes sense. I don't expect you to adjust to systems that harm you. I believe most "symptoms" are actually adaptations—reasonable responses to unreasonable circumstances. That anxiety often has roots in real things (trauma, oppression, living in a world that wasn't built with you in mind). That you're the expert on your own life, and my job is to help you understand what's happening, not tell you what to do. Outside of sessions: dog mom, fiction reader, highly sensitive person, '97 baby still figuring it out. I'm in my own therapy because I believe therapists should practice what we preach. I know