As a therapist, my goal is to create a safe, welcoming and casual environment for you to share your experiences and feel heard. I want clients to feel comfortable being their authentic self with me. I approach therapy from a client-centered lens; meaning I want to meet you where you are at and ensure your needs are met at each appointment. I know what it feels like to be the client and how hard it can be to ask for help. I want you to know that we are on the same team and there is hope.

I have a special interest in working with individuals who have experienced trauma, whether from a single event or many years of disappointment, sadness, mistreatment or your needs not being met. My goal is to help you regulate your emotions, process triggers and experiences, and help you return to a happier, more fulfilling life. My other specialties include depression, anxiety and grief. Grief training includes topics of death, dying, bereavement, chronic illness, pets and grief associated with infertility. My approach involves a balance between emotional processing and action steps to you help feeling better. The therapy approaches I typically draw from include cognitive processing, EMDR trauma therapy, ACT and CBT.

I was drawn to therapy after countless failed attempts of ‘self care’. I thought self care was bubble baths, face masks, yoga and pampering. But what happens when you don’t have the spare time or money for those things? Plus they never actual helped me feel better. Instead, I focus on real self care – building sustainable skills to improve your mood which also help you process unresolved trauma and negative experiences.