My approach is deeply relational, grounded in compassion, and informed by evidence-based practices including EMDR, IFS, RO-DBT, ACT, Motivational Interviewing, and Health at Every Size® (HAES). I also integrate a fat liberation and anti-oppression lens, recognizing the profound impact weight stigma, medical trauma, and systemic body-based harm have on mental health and identity.
Additionally, I incorporate a neuroscience-informed perspective to help clients understand how life experiences affect the brain and body biologically. This approach highlights resilience and growth, empowering you to move forward with knowledge rather than feeling stuck or helpless in your healing journey.
In my practice, your body is never a problem to solve. Instead, it’s a source of wisdom—messy, beautiful, and fully allowed. As someone living in a body that doesn’t always align with society’s narrow standards, I understand the quiet exhaustion of feeling too much or not enough in certain spaces. You will never be pathologized for your size here. Weight loss is not offered as a solution. You will be met with curiosity, compassion, and deep respect for your lived experience.
Whether you’re healing from diet culture, fatphobia, medical trauma, or simply the ache of never feeling quite right in your skin—I’m here. I live in this world with you, not above it. That matters. I view emotions as meaningful signals, pathways to deeper understanding and healing. By practicing acceptance of these emotions, we can ease suffering and reconnect with parts of ourselves long silenced or hidden.
As a state-approved licensed clinical supervisor in Oregon, I also support associate therapists in developing clinical confidence, refining their therapeutic voice, and navigating the complexities of this work with integrity, care, and self-awareness.
As a therapist and supervisor, I see myself as a guide—walking alongside you as you explore, grow, and move toward meaningful and sustainable change. Healing isn’t about fixing who we are—it’s about reclaiming our most authentic self.
