About Me

The clients I get to work with are awesome, brave, courageous, resilient, inventive, creative, tenacious, fierce and so much more. Their stories are filled with inspiration at how well they cope, survive and thrive. I am honored to be invited to accompany them as they work to live their lives more fully. I am inspired by their desire to have more. 

My clients range in age from 18 to 70. I work with young people transitioning into adulthood, women with issues regarding childbearing (often have trauma histories) and trauma survivors as well as clients with mood disorders like depression, anxiety and phobias.

With young people, many want more for their lives but don’t know what that means. So we work together to find what is important to them, their values, and then set goals and committed actions to help them move. It’s so exciting to see them accomplish those goals, whether it’s to clarify college or career changes, or to find meaningful relationships that satisfy their longings.

I also work with women in childbearing ages – if you know me, you know I’m passionate about pregnancy, birth and postpartum issues often referred to as PMADS. I find it deeply satisfying to work with women who often times have trauma histories and births that intersect with trauma and the birth environment of the US today. I get to work with and witness women as they find their voices and truths.

Finally, I am often asked to accompany adults who have come upon a point in their lives where their histories, often filled with traumas, finally refuse to  accept limits to their abilities to live fully, freely and authentically – they say NO MORE.

They often come with stories of limits and terrible paralyzing fears that bear witness to what they have survived.

I am honored to hear and accompany them as they tell the truths of what they’ve survived and how they survived. I am in awe and honor of the fact they are here, today, in front of me. Most have such functional lives. They are passionate parents, daughters and sons, brothers and sisters, employers and employees, friends and spouses and partners even as they struggle.

Our beginning work is strength focused – what are those super powers they bring? What skills did they develop to survive the unsurvivable? Working together, we identify strengths and understand that we’ll use them to go on. I often will use assessments that identify their top five strengths, and their Meyer-Briggs identification and their attachment styles. All this information is used to help formulate a treatment plan – clients’ goals and how to obtain them. We work collaboratively, but the client, you, sets the goals. I may help to clarify, but I practice “client-centered” therapy. We work to untangle lies and limits and fears to restore back to them the lives they were intended to have. And then they grow and transform into the best versions of themselves.

I am inspired by the words restoration and transformation – it’s what I see my clients do, day in and day out.

So, this may look like and is often labeled depression, anxiety, or PTSD. But I understand the effects of trauma and the coping skills developed to survive. I honor all the ways people have worked to be here, right now. My hope is to take those strengths and add to them along with adding flexibility, choices – you can make choices now. It’s part of what we discover together – where do you need freedom and flexibility.