Meet the Team

True joy comes from a place of wholeness. We can tell when we don’t feel whole, and when we don’t feel we belong to ourselves.

Our bodies hold truth. Our brain, nervous system, and chemical messengers—like neurotransmitters and hormones—shape our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. They regulate mood, motivation, and our sensitivity to pleasure or pain. When we experience stress, especially prolonged or extreme stress, the nervous system—a brilliant survival mechanism—can store those experiences in ways that feel stuck or unprocessed. You might find yourself thinking, “I shouldn’t feel this way,” or reacting in ways that don’t make sense, yet the anxiety, anger, depression, shame, or grief persists. These feelings are not obstacles to fight or ignore—they are messengers, offering clues and invitations to heal, integrate, and reclaim your authentic self.

My role is to walk alongside you, creating a safe space where healing can unfold naturally. When given the right resources, our body, spirit, and emotions know how to mend. My approach begins with supporting you in stabilizing your current situation, then gently reprocessing past experiences that contribute to present struggles, and finally integrating this work into a future where you feel empowered and whole—not just managing symptoms, but addressing their roots.

I earned my Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling in 2022, but my path to therapy began 20 years earlier as a clinical massage therapist (LMT). Witnessing the interplay of physical and emotional pain, I sought deep training in historical and cultural healing modalities—rituals and bodywork that honor the whole person, their family, and their community. This foundation fuels my passion for the relationship between the body, trauma, and health, including issues like medical trauma, pain, chronic illness, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief and emotional dysregulation. Clients tend to find me when old coping strategies are faltering, unresolved experiences start to surface, they are facing fight/flight/freeze states, dissociation, or simply a deep longing to feel at home in themselves.

In my down-time, I love adventures, hiking, exploring nature, meditating, traveling to distant lands, experiencing food from all kinds of cultures, learning something new, live music, playing the piano, ballroom dancing and hammocking (preferably with family and listening to waves!)

• Complex Trauma and PTSD
• Anxiety, Depression, and Emotional Dysregulation
• Life Transitions (e.g., divorce, new diagnosis, menopause, empty nest, career shifts, grief)
• Attachment and Family of Origin Issues
• Chronic Illness, Medical Trauma, and Health Changes

• Adults across the lifespan
• Older Teens

• Somatic Experiencing (SE)
• EMDR
• Experiential, body-focused
• Mindfulness-Based
• Strengths-based
• Trauma-Informed integrative approach
• Polyvagal Theory
• Internal Family Systems (IFS
• Solution-Focused
• Rooted in Humanistic and Gestalt principles