Services
- Individual
About My Clients
My clients are often people who are great at helping others (professionally or personally), but never learned how to pay attention to their own feelings and needs. As a result, they find themselves struggling with anxiety, burnout, relationship issues, grief, perfectionism, people-pleasing, or just feeling "not good enough". They aren't sure why the same things they do to help others don't seem to work for them, because the missing piece has been someone to walk alongside them as a guide.
My Background and Approach
I’ve been a therapist for 25+ years, and I show up as a real human, not a rigid therapist. It means sometimes we will laugh together, sometimes there may be swearing--because I am here to walk the path of authenticity with you. I work from an IFS perspective, which means we make space for the different parts of you that have been trying to keep you safe. They’re not the enemy — they just need some care and attention so you can live your life from a grounded place, not from fear or overwhelm. I also use intuitive and energetic tools when they feel supportive, like tuning into your inner guidance/Higher Self, understanding energetic attraction, or pulling a tarot card to bring you additional clarity and validation.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Therapy is meant to be experiential--not just talking about your stressful week. It is also not meant to teach you basic skills you could learn from AI. If early life experiences caused you to have limiting beliefs about yourself, then "corrective compassionate experiences" (especially in the face of vulnerability) are needed to heal them. At the core of my approach to therapy is a belief that progress comes from "healing at the root", not just managing the symptoms. “Healing the root” means we first will explore how the patterns you have right now developed earlier in life as a way to help you, but are no longer as helpful as what they once were. I’ll show you how to start paying more attention to the parts of yourself that have been pushed to the side for so long. From this new platform of feeling deeply seen and valued, you will begin to think differently about yourself…and from there, new ways of doing things will emerge that align with a life of more ease and joy.