About
No Muss, No Fuss – Just Us
In the early mornings, I’m journaling, enjoying coffee, and preparing my mind to show up fully present in your sessions. When it’s time for your therapy session, grab yourself a cup of hot tea or coffee, a notebook, and pen, and curl up in your favorite cozy chair for your session.
No makeup? Bed-head hair? Wearing the Christmas pajama pants your mom sent you? No problem! Come just as you are to our sessions – may that be sad, grieving, anxious, tired, worried, frustrated, overwhelmed, hopeful, happy, or reflective.
Please take a deep breath and finally tell me all the thoughts that go with your stress, worries, and that sad feeling seriously weighing you down – Let It Out. You’ve been carrying this for so long.
Finally, you have space where there’s no judgment and no need to filter! Talk about anything. Cry if you need to cry. Laugh about how crazy life is sometimes.
It’s About YOU
Together, we go wherever the session needs to go, always keeping the focus on you. It’s comfortable like chatting with your BFF – except I won’t go on an unhelpful tangent. I’m skilled in helping you go deeper, resolving underlying emotions and challenges for real change.
Nothing is more annoying than an overly chatty therapist wasting your session time by going off-track. Most therapists mean well but talk WAY too much.
Seriously, if you wanted someone’s advice, you could go to your mom or Aunt Susan to hear what you “should” do. I will not give you outdated advice or relate your difficulty to my own life.
I’m a listener first. The moment you feel heard – like TRULY heard – is the moment you begin to heal.
Experience the Change.
And as we continue in your sessions, don’t be surprised when your life transforms with positive shifts and new realizations that YOU reach! How gratifying it is to find your way in this world.
My clients proudly share their new realizations from therapy with their friends. They show up with a list of things to talk about in sessions. They know this is their time, and they can’t wait for their weekly session to come.
When I hear my clients share feelings of being proud of themselves for the first time, feeling confident in their skin, openly telling their partner how they feel, and going after their dreams, it’s indescribable.
I live for these moments!
About Me
I decided to become a therapist when I was a client sitting on the couch across from my therapist. I came to understand and accept myself through my sessions. This – liking who I am – shifted my entire life.
I learned to cope with anxiety and also heal my relationship with food. I was able to create the meaningful, balanced life I had been wanting.
Of course, I became hooked on therapy! I knew I had to become a therapist. This decision was a significant career change from my cubicle job as an editor.
My background before that was in English, and I had tried teaching but found that I didn’t enjoy disciplining a class full of high school kids. Shocker!
Even back then, there were clues that my calling was to become a counselor. Students would stay after class to chat with me about their problems in what were mini-counseling sessions. Talk about foreshadowing!
Anyway, by day, I would catch spelling and grammar errors in my 6×6-foot cubicle – and by night, I’d take counseling graduate courses.
Then, I started my internships at an agency counseling survivors of sexual assault. As I earned my degree in counseling, I left my editing work to become a full-time counselor for survivors of sexual assault.
I learned that people are resilient and can heal from even the most terrible experiences. I took the experience from that work and built my private practice to help young women.
Some things in life take time. If you feel lost and not sure what you want in life, I HEAR YOU. I have been there and done that.
However, it is in these life transitions that the magic happens! Experiencing those transitions is how we learn, grow, and become our true selves.
My life outside work includes…
Spending #quarantinelife with my fiancé. Fun fact: we got engaged right at the start of the pandemic. Yes, we’ll probably get married on ZOOM. And we can’t wait.
What else? I enjoy being a dog mom, dog step-mom, daughter, sister, friend, writer, and tap dancer. I’m forever a bookworm.
As a therapist, I’m honored to be a holder of stories and experiences for my clients and witness their amazing transformations.