My Specialties

These are the areas where I have the most experience and do my most meaningful work. If you’re navigating something difficult, feeling stuck, or wanting more for yourself, I work with people right where you are. If something here resonates, it’s worth paying attention to. I encourage you to reach out.

Trauma

Unresolved trauma has a way of showing up in your life in unwelcome ways — anxiety, shame, difficulty trusting others, feeling disconnected from yourself or disengaged from the people around you. Many people who come to me have spent years asking themselves “What’s wrong with me?” An important shift we make is to reframe that question, because it’s not what’s “wrong” with you. Rather, asking “what happened to me?” gives us guidance on where to go next.

The coping strategies you developed to survive and the ways you learned to protect yourself made sense at the time. They helped. But over time those same strategies became what keeps you stuck, getting in the way of the relationships that you value, and interfering with the life you want. Part of our work is understanding where those patterns came from and building new ones in their place — patterns that support you rather than hold you back.

Healing from trauma has a different meaning for everyone, but to many it looks like releasing shame that you’ve been living with for a long time, learning to trust yourself and others, and making your way back to your relationships more fully and with less fear.

Eating Disorder Recovery

An eating disorder rarely makes sense from the outside — and even from the inside, the “why” can be confusing and difficult to understand. The eating disorder behaviors often serve a purpose: avoiding difficult emotions, finding a sense of control when everything else feels chaotic, or numbing what feels unbearable. Recovery isn’t just about stopping those behaviors. It’s about understanding what they’ve been doing for you and building a life where you don’t need them anymore. Recovery is nuanced, and progress isn’t necessarily linear, and yet freedom and relief are possible.

Whether you’re just beginning to wonder if something needs to change, or you’ve been through treatment before and are continuing your recovery — you’re welcome here. I will support you as you learn to disengage from behaviors and create space for the emotional work that leads to healing. Part of that process includes learning new ways to cope and respond when urges arise, so that the behaviors become less instinctive over time.

Recovery is reclaiming the parts of your life the eating disorder had taken over and having room to feel, connect, and show up fully. It’s living with more freedom and less noise. Recovery means getting your life back.

Alcohol & Substance Use

Sometimes it begins with an uneasy feeling or quiet thought — “I think I might be drinking too much,” or “I don’t like how much I’ve been using lately.” Sometimes it’s feedback from someone you trust, or a moment where you recognize that alcohol or substances played a role in a decision you regret. You don’t have to have a diagnosis or have hit a crisis point to wonder if something needs to change.

The work goes beyond just abstinence. Trying to quit without understanding what the drinking or using has been doing for you rarely leads to lasting change. Therapy focuses on understanding what alcohol or substances have been helping you cope with or avoid, addressing the shame that often comes with it, and dismantling the beliefs underneath the use — the stories you tell yourself about why you need it or what it says about who you are. It’s also about identifying new ways of responding when the urge arises. You’ll discover that you don’t need to escape in the same ways.

What changes isn’t just the drinking or using — it’s your relationship with yourself and with the life you actually want to be living. True freedom is possible — and it’s worth it.

Relationships & Boundaries

Many people come to therapy wanting to work on their relationships because they’ve noticed the same patterns showing up across different relationships. The challenges might look like difficulty setting boundaries, communication that keeps breaking down, conflict that goes unresolved, or recognizing that your needs aren’t being met.

We start with you — what you actually want, what you value, such as trust, fairness, and loyalty, and how you want to show up in the relationships that matter to you. From there we look at what’s happening in your current relationships: where those values and needs might not be met, and what gets in the way of communicating what you need and staying with it when it’s hard.

Boundaries are central to this work, not just identifying them, but learning to communicate them clearly and maintain them when there’s pushback. We also look at where your relational patterns came from, including the dynamics you grew up around, which often shape how we relate to others more than we realize.

What changes is the clarity, about what works for you, what doesn’t, and what you’re willing to accept. You become more able to express yourself and communicate more effectively. Sometimes that leads to deeper, more honest relationships — and sometimes it means making a decision about whether a particular relationship still belongs in your life. Either way, you leave with a stronger sense of yourself and what you deserve.

Navigating Change

Life doesn’t always change gradually — it shifts, sometimes all at once, sometimes in ways you might not welcome. Becoming a parent, watching children grow up and leave, divorce, a career change, perimenopause — these transitions can leave you feeling unmoored, uncertain of who you are, now that so much of what defined you has changed.

That’s often the heart of it: not just the change itself, but the question it raises. If so much of your sense of self was tied to your roles — parent, partner, professional — then who are you when those roles shift? It can feel disorienting, even when the change was something you wanted.

The work is about giving yourself permission to grieve what’s been lost, recognizing what might have been positive about the changes that occurred, and also beginning to look forward. Grief and hope aren’t opposites — they can exist alongside each other, and both deserve space. We explore who you are outside of your roles, what matters to you now, and what might be possible in this new chapter. Change has a way of opening doors that weren’t visible before. The goal isn’t just to cope, but to move through this transition with enough clarity and steadiness that you can approach the future with curiosity and anticipation, experiencing hope for what’s next.

Authenticity & Identity

For some people, it starts as an uncomfortable feeling — that the life they’re living, the choices they’re making, or the roles they’re filling don’t quite reflect who they are on the inside. Sometimes it’s more specific: questioning your values, your beliefs, your sexual orientation or gender identity, your purpose, or what kind of relationships and life you actually want.

This work is about peeling back the layers of “should” and creating space to ask, and honestly answer, some of the most important questions you can ask yourself. What do I actually want? What do I value? Who am I when I’m not performing, or trying to make myself acceptable to everyone else?

We also look at where your beliefs about yourself came from — the messages you absorbed about your worth, your capabilities, and what you deserve. Many people believe that they have to earn their place, prove their value, or shrink themselves in order to feel loved. Part of this work is challenging those beliefs and building a more honest, compassionate relationship with yourself — one that doesn’t depend on achievement, approval, or perfection. The goal is to live in alignment with who you truly are, not who you think you’re supposed to be.

If you’re wondering whether your specific concern is a good fit, I encourage you to reach out. We can discuss it during a brief consultation.