Just as the caterpillar uses its chrysalis to transform into a butterfly, I would offer a safe, nurturing space where you can learn self-understanding, coping skills, connection and healing.

I am a body-centered therapist that uses my training and my life experiences in therapy. I find play therapy important with children and incorporate the arts as well. The most important piece to me in the therapeutic relationship is connection. You must feel comfortable and safe with me as the therapist, as I also need to connect with you as my client. It is from this space that we are able to work together towards the goals that we have set.

I came to my therapeutic career mid-life. With my Masters in Counseling, I continued my training with Somatic Experiencing and am now a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.  I am currently in the last module of training for TEB (Transforming the Experienced Based Brain), which focuses on working  with early developmental trauma and utilizes therapeutic touch to teach (or reteach) the body reflexes that perhaps were never learned or forgotten, as an infant, in utero or even as an adult. This approach enriches and incorporates the body's wisdom into the healing process, fostering profound transformations.

I have always been drawn to working with children. With the TEB training, I have realized and found inspiration to work with infants and children up to the age of 7 years old. I find a lot of joy in working with the beginning of life and rejoice in the significant regulation that can be “onboard” in these early years. And, of course, in order to effectively work with children, I also need to work with their parents and being able to guide both is what I love to do.

Additionally, my therapeutic interest lies in working with the adoption triangle, which consists of birth parents, adoptive parents, and the adoptive child. I have a strong pull towards destigmatizing biological moms who are looking to place their baby up for adoption and in need of emotional support. If this is you, while you are pregnant we can guide you through the emotions you might be feeling and work with you to be able to bond with the fetus, which could both eliminate much of the early developmental trauma that can occur in utero and make the transition to the adoptive parents easier. I also enjoy working with adoptive children who need support with the emotions they might be feeling throughout their upbringing.I do this work so stigmas and stories are set free to live wholly in the family unit and beyond.