I’m a psychotherapist with over 10 years in the mental health field and 6 years of clinical experience. My path into this work grew from my own healing process, a deep curiosity about people and relationships, and a belief that therapy works best when people feel genuinely safe enough to show up as themselves without needing to perform, minimize, or explain away their experiences.
My style is relational, grounded, and collaborative. I bring warmth, honesty, humor, and steadiness into the room, while also making space for complexity and difficult emotions. I do not see therapy as a process of “fixing” people. I see it as a space to better understand ourselves, our histories, our protective patterns, and the ways we learned to survive. Many of the clients I work with come in feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, stuck in shame, or exhausted from trying to navigate relationships, identities, systems, or expectations that have not felt safe or affirming. One of the most meaningful parts of this work for me is watching people reconnect with themselves in ways that feel more authentic, sustainable, and self directed.
My clinical background includes work across multiple levels of care, including community mental health with SPMI populations as well as IOP and PHP eating disorder treatment settings. Working in these environments has given me experience supporting clients with a wide range of needs, presentations, and levels of acuity, while also reinforcing the importance of flexibility, collaboration, and individualized care.
I value integrating current research and evidence-based treatments into my work, especially approaches that are emerging, clinically effective, and supportive of long-term healing. I enjoy staying engaged with evolving research in trauma, eating disorder treatment, nervous system regulation, metabolic health, and relational therapy so that care remains informed, adaptable, and responsive to each client’s needs. My work has also been deeply influenced by clinicians and researchers including Janina Fisher, Pat Ogden, Russell Barkley, Daniel Siegel, and Pete Walker, particularly their work around trauma, attachment, dissociation, neurobiology, and nervous system regulation.
In addition to my clinical work, I am a state approved clinical supervisor and enjoy supporting associate therapists as they develop confidence, deepen their clinical identity, and navigate the complexities of this field with integrity, curiosity, and self-awareness.
Outside of therapy, I recharge by mushroom hunting in the Pacific Northwest with my spouse, spending time with our 40 year old macaw, and taking long walks with our chihuahua and pit mix rescues.
