Compassionate Trauma Care.

I enjoy working with a wide variety of clients—whether you’re new to therapy or looking for healing approaches that go beyond traditional talk therapy. My clients include therapists, healthcare providers, and work-from-home professionals, as well as artists, game designers, and other creative or healing-oriented individuals.

I also enjoy working with neurodivergent clients. As someone who is neurodivergent myself, I bring both lived experience and clinical understanding into our work together.

I am trained in multiple therapeutic approaches because each person carries a unique story shaped by their experiences, challenges, and strengths. As Shrek famously said, “Ogres are like onions — they have layers.” While people aren’t onions, our lives are layered and complex. I appreciate this analogy because it reminds me to stay curious. Curiosity helps me avoid assumptions and instead create space to truly understand the person sitting across from me. In this way, therapy becomes collaborative, respectful, and deeply attuned.

I believe the brain has an incredible capacity for healing. At times, however, it can become stuck in patterns, behaviors, or unresolved experiences. Together, we work gently and intentionally to help your system move toward greater flexibility, integration, and healing.

I bring years of diverse clinical experience into the therapy room, including work with the Department of Child Safety, community mental health programs, inpatient hospital settings, intensive outpatient groups, partial hospitalization programs for substance use, veteran and law enforcement settings, and private practice.

If you’re curious about working together, I invite you to reach out. I offer a complimentary 15-minute phone consultation so we can connect and see whether we’re a good fit.

Wherever you are in your journey, I wish you healing and growth in whatever form that may take. 

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful psychotherapy approach that has helped millions of people of all ages reduce many forms of psychological distress. It is well researched and highly effective in treating traumatic stress and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

When practiced properly, EMDR is not about immediately revisiting traumatic stories. The process begins with building skills and resources so that clients can safely experience difficult sensations, emotions, and memories without becoming overwhelmed. From there, EMDR helps the brain reprocess experiences so they no longer carry the same emotional intensity or reactivity.

I am certified in EMDR and serve as an EMDR consultant-in-training.
Resource: www.EMDRIA.org

Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) is a trauma-focused psychotherapy that works with the brainstem and deeper brain systems involved in threat detection and attachment. DBR helps access and process trauma by gently tracking the original sequence of physiological responses that occurred when the deep brain first detected a threat or experienced an attachment disruption.

I have completed Level 2 training in Deep Brain Reorienting.
Resource: www.deepbrainreorienting.com