Services
- Individual
About My Clients
My approach is best suited for clients who are motivated for meaningful trauma work and are looking for a collaborative, depth-oriented therapeutic process. You’ve learned how to function, achieve, care for others, or stay emotionally composed, even while carrying unresolved trauma internally. My clients are people who tend to look capable, self-aware, and emotionally intelligent Many of my clients have spent years understanding their patterns intellectually but still feeling emotionally stuck.
My Background and Approach
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker providing virtual therapy for adults in Oregon and California. I specialize in trauma-focused therapy and have advanced training in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and Internal Family Systems (IFS) Level 1. My work is also informed by attachment theory, relational therapy, and nervous system-based approaches to healing. My approach is grounded, relational, and depth-oriented while also active and engaged. I believe meaningful therapy involves more than simply talking through weekly stressors or offering coping skills in isolation. I work collaboratively with clients to better understand emotional patterns, protective responses, relationship dynamics, and unresolved experiences that may continue affecting the present. I strive to create a therapeutic relationship that feels emotionally safe, steady, honest, and capable of supporting deeper trauma work over time.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe many emotional and relational struggles make sense in the context of a person’s life experiences, relationships, and nervous system adaptations. Patterns such as anxiety, people-pleasing, perfectionism, emotional shutdown, hypervigilance, or self-criticism are often protective responses that developed for understandable reasons over time. I view therapy as a collaborative process grounded in curiosity, compassion, honesty, and emotional safety. Meaningful trauma work involves more than intellectual insight alone. Healing from trauma requires enough steadiness and trust to explore difficult emotions, relationship patterns, and unresolved experiences without shame or avoidance. My goal is to create a therapeutic space where clients can feel both supported and genuinely engaged in deeper emotional work.