Hi! I’m a therapist and Counselor-Educator with lived experience navigating the complexities of grief, loss, and neurodivergence. I have a particular affinity for clients who may not fit neatly into boxes or diagnostic labels such those who are sensitive, creative, deep feelers, existential thinkers, or whose neurodivergence is interconnected with childhood trauma and attachment experiences.

I hold a Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a PhD in Counselor Education and my professional background encompasses research, clinical practice, and training/educating future therapists. My primary area of clinical research and practice as a therapist has been in helping adults navigate experiences of grief and loss. For neurodivergent individuals, losses are frequently traumatic and compounding. Working with grief in therapy may relate to traumatic events, the loss of a loved one, adjusting to unwanted life changes, anticipatory grieving, and working through complications in grieving, such as prolonged grief or traumatic bereavement.

Grief and loss also shows up in navigating abuse and attachment relationships. I have a particular interest in supporting clients who have experienced narcissistic abuse work through grief and loss (or the avoidance of grief and loss), limerence, and attachment-related concerns such as trauma bonding or re-activation of childhood attachment wounds.

My own lived experiences have taught me how grief and trauma, relational wounds, and challenging life events can shape the stories we hold about ourselves and the world. I am deeply interested in helping my clients hold and explore these stories and, when appropriate rewrite them into a more true, integrated, and hopeful future.

I integrate experiential and constructivist approaches informed by Coherence Therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS), as well as narrative and gestalt therapies. This approach to therapy is integrative and experiential, and grounded in the belief that our symptoms aren’t random, but make complete sense given what we’ve experienced in life. This non-pathologizing approach is aimed at helping us heal our symptoms from their roots.

Beginning with a comprehensive, “big picture” review of your life story for context, we will work together to discover the origins of your wounded “parts” and the beliefs they hold, explore the ways in which their efforts to protect you may be keeping you stuck in patterns that are no longer helpful, and help you connect with your inner and outer resources, allowing you to update old beliefs and heal your wounded parts from the inside out.

As a therapist who sees herself reflected in the “highly sensitive” neurodivergent subtype, I also value supporting clients both in navigating the challenges associated with high sensitivity and in embracing their sensitivity, depth, and high empathy as strengths.

I believe that most of us have, at one point or another, come to believe that some aspect of ourselves was “wrong” when it was, in fact, perfectly natural, valid, or even adaptive. Thus, I have a passion for helping clients reclaim core parts of themselves they may have lost access to, identify and build on their unique strengths, cultivate greater self-acceptance and self-compassion, and tune into their inner wisdom, creativity, and depth.

With warmth, non-judgment, and candor, I lean into high empathy and intuition and remain actively engaged with you throughout the therapeutic process, collaborating with you to identify where you feel stuck and helping you make the shifts you wish to make. I engage in on-going inner work so that I can meet my clients in their most difficult moments with presence, steadiness, and genuineness. If this resonates with you, I would love to connect!

I provide culturally responsive, inclusive, queer and trans-affirming, and neurodivergence-affirming care, and I am a size/weight-inclusive, body-affirming therapist.

My own growth has involved allowing myself to reconnect with parts of my life that both steady me and bring me joy. In my personal life I enjoy reading just about everything from memoirs to literary fiction, with a particular love for stories that center characters who manage to reclaim their narratives after adversity and injustice. I also dabble in singing and piano, any kind of movement that I enjoy, being in nature, savoring good food (the spicier the better!), and spending time with my two sensitive spaniels, Sybil and Clementine, an adopted mom-and-pup duo.