About Me

You are welcome here. I believe that healing unfolds naturally when we create the right conditions to access our inner knowing. Perhaps this knowing comes from the same source that reminds the trees to keep reaching toward the sun, the mycelium to transform decay into a symbiotic network, and the wolves to howl across miles to reach each other.  Whether you're navigating anxiety, trauma, depression, life transitions, relationship challenges, or simply feeling disconnected from yourself, I'm here to walk alongside you—not to fix or change you, but to support your own process of returning to self and coherence. I trust in the wisdom that already lives within you.

My Clients
I work with adults experiencing anxiety, depression, adjustment related concerns, life transitions, and trauma. I also assist clients in navigating a range of relationship experiences, including relationship transitions, attachment experiences, and non-monogamy/polyamory. Additionally, I support clients in exploring identity, particularly as it relates to sexual orientation, culture/ethnicity, and spirituality.

My Approach
My approach blends talk therapy and experiential forms of therapy, using your intention for therapeutic outcome as a guide to our work together. In some sessions, we may follow the rhythm of what wants to emerge in the present moment. In other sessions, we may work with a continuous thread to support your progress toward long term goals. I invite you to lead and co-create the experience, listening to your inner system to find pathways to a more integrated self.

I primarily practice from an Internal Family Systems (IFS) lens, meaning I view people as having multiple “parts” or sub-personalities. In my experience, when we explore these parts of ourselves with curiosity, neutrality, or compassion, a more core, integrated “Self” starts to emerge. Perhaps this is the same energy that breathes consciousness into all beings. In doing parts work, we might turn toward parts that feel anxious, angry, afraid, or desolate in order to better understand them, their histories, and their protective roles, and restore them to a more integrated, present place within our experience. We might also work with parts that carry deep emotional burdens or memories, allowing these parts to share their stories with the safe, present Self. Through this process, we begin to see that there are no bad parts, and that each part is trying to help you find balance. Not to mention the unburdened parts we may also explore and integrate - parts that tend to our health, take care of others, find creative flow, and experience joy!

In addition to IFS, my work draws from Attachment Theory, Polyvagal Theory, Solution Focused Therapy, mindfulness practices, and embodied approaches to therapy. We might examine how your relationship with your caregivers informs how you show up in current relationships, and how you can work with connection and autonomy to support your attachment needs. We might befriend your nervous system by exploring your unique experience of states of (dys)regulation and developing skills to support a greater sense of choice around how your body feels in the world. We might draw from your past experiences and preferred, imagined future to identify skills and strengths to move toward desired outcomes. We might develop a felt sense of safety, connection, or empowerment through mindfulness practices, sometimes utilizing resourcing techniques from EMDR to strengthen the saliency of our inner resources. We might also use somatic experience, breath, movement, and self touch to support a felt sense of connection with parts, move energy, or intentionally shift states. 

I also work from a postmodernist lens, honoring how our inner lives naturally respond to systemic oppression and burdens that are not ours to carry alone. In our work together, we might deconstruct dominant narratives and develop a script that honors your lived experience and personal truths.

My dog often also makes appearances in telehealth sessions, and will occasionally snort, snore, or poke her head up toward the camera. She is a great co-regulator, master of being present, and reminder to take breaks to laugh!

My Background and Ongoing Learning
I hold a Master of Social Work degree from the University of New England and studied Psychology and Spanish at Oberlin College. I have completed trainings in UZAZU Embodied Intelligence and somatic parts work, and hold a certificate in Training in Aging and Diversity. I am committed to ongoing learning about how we heal, reconnect, and return to ourselves.

In addition to my formal education, I also work with my own parts, relationships, and somatic experience. I participate in my own personal therapy, regularly practice embodied mindfulness through dance, yoga, and playing outside, and am committed to exploring how I show up in relationship with other humans and nature. When I am not in the office, I am likely somewhere moving my body, listening to music, talking to a mountain, or spending time with loved ones.