I believe therapy can be about more than feeling better. Sometimes it is about waking up.

Waking up to the parts of yourself you learned to silence.
Waking up to the ways you have adapted to belong, to survive, or to be loved.
Waking up to the possibility that there may be more to who you are than the story you have been carrying.

For me, therapy is a place to become curious about yourself—not to fix yourself, but to come to know yourself.

My approach is warm, compassionate, relational, and trauma-informed. I draw from Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, somatic approaches, and other integrative practices to help you explore the connections between your body, emotions, relationships, experiences, identity, and the different parts of yourself.

I am particularly drawn to working with people who find themselves at a crossroads: people who are questioning, changing, awakening, or beginning to wonder, “Is there another way to live?”

I have a particular interest in later-in-life identity discovery, coming out, sexual and gender identity, neurodivergence, trauma, relationships, and the experience of realizing that some of the ways you have understood yourself may no longer fit.

I know something about this personally.

I came out as a lesbian later in life. My own coming-out journey involved questioning what I thought I knew about myself, grieving parts of the life I had imagined, and discovering parts of myself that had been waiting to be seen. I have also come to understand my own neurodivergence later in life—an experience that invited me to look back at my life through a different lens and reconsider so many things I had once misunderstood about myself.

These experiences have taught me that self-discovery doesn't always happen on our timeline. Sometimes we spend years becoming who we think we are supposed to be before we have the space, safety, or awareness to ask who we actually are.

And sometimes awakening is messy.

It can bring relief and grief. Excitement and fear. Freedom and uncertainty. It can change how you understand your past while opening up possibilities for your future.

I don't believe you have to have everything figured out before you come to therapy. In fact, not knowing can be a beautiful place to begin.

Outside of my work, I am a mom and wife, and I share my home with my family, including my two kids and two cats a wife and an ex husband. We are all still finding our way, just like everyone else.  I now call myself a lesbian and use she/they pronouns. I am still learning, growing, questioning, and becoming—just like all of us.

I won't pretend to have all the answers. I don't think therapy is about having someone tell you who you are.

I think it is about creating enough safety, curiosity, and compassion for you to discover that for yourself.

So if some part of you has been quietly asking:

Who am I?
What happened to me?
Why have I always felt different?
What do I actually want?
What if there is more to my life than this?

Maybe that part of you is ready to be listened to.

You don't have to know exactly where you're going. We can start by getting curious about where you are—and who you are becoming.