I am a human who is passionate about helping other humans through this painfully beautiful journey called life. As a human, I feel BIG and DEEP often, I get excited by the small things, and I am a hopeless romantic. I am also a registered Social Worker, and Level II Reiki practitioner. As a therapist, I am relentlessly compassionate, curious, graciously pushy, and pointedly observant. I believe in authentically showing up in sessions as a way to invite my clients into authenticity too. Whatever practices I invite my clients into, I embody in my own life.

I practice authenticity by sharing parts of myself with clients and owning my story. I was a curious and open child  who loved to share stories and connect, but I learned to become quiet and spent most of my life accidentally believing I was "shy". I was bullied often in my early years. I grew up with a beautiful, generous, and loving family where we also lacked boundaries and have generations of people pleasers. I am a child of divorce, and an adult who is divorced. I have gained a wholehearted appreciation of my experiences of heartbreak, trauma, and deep pain. Through those experiences I learned to reconnect to my authentic self and alchemized my pain into a sacred relationship with myself, based on exquisite tenderness and love.
 
My human experiences shape my work as a therapist and, as such, I work from humanistic/experiential, rogerian, and post-modern perspectives. I incorporate somatic and spiritual work, which focuses on the mind/body/soul connection. Reconnecting to my body has been the only successful way I have healed past trauma and began to live a soul-aligning life.