About Me

My primary intention as a therapist is to honor each person’s unique human experience and empower you on your journey toward healing and transformation. I strive to create a safe space for us to explore ways to bring more peace into your inner world, allowing you to have a more fulfilling and authentic existence. Our nervous systems are at the core of our state of being in any moment. I help my clients build on their nervous system’s capacity so they can grow the potential to experience more positive emotion, such as joy, love, and self-compassion. Then, with a broadened range of emotional tolerance, you’ll feel less anxiety and overwhelm during times of difficult emotion or high distress. I’ll guide you in using mindful and somatic practices to create this capacity and use more adaptive coping. Having experienced EMDR Therapy from both the therapist and client perspectives, I am grateful for the healing it can offer. I have developed a specialization in utilizing EMDR and other trauma focused therapy approaches to assist clients in reducing the intensity of thoughts and emotion connected to past experiences. This is possible because of our brain’s natural ability to reprocess memories that are stored with distress so the distress from the past isn’t as powerful when it is activated in the present. This translates into improvement of quality of life, mood, and relationships. Throughout my own journey, I have found that purposefully doing things that I enjoy and that bring purpose to my life are necessary in caring for myself. When I’m not working, you can often find me traveling, spending time with my bulldogs, walking and marveling at trees, or sitting on the porch, watching the birds. Another passion of mine is engaging in activism with local organizations creating positive change in our community. I’m an advocate for equity and justice for all humans and have great appreciation for the interconnectedness of mental health and social well-being.