care with curiosity and kindness at its center.
specialties
Eating Disorders & Body Image
We are all surrounded by the pressure of weight-loss and diet culture. The way we nourish ourselves physically and emotionally is learned in this context and encouraged by it. The work we do in therapy for eating disorders and body image is about unlearning body hate and body shame in order to learn embodiment and oneness with your full being. It is about finding fresh ways to nourish yourself, acknowledging fears, anxieties, and trauma that lay underneath, and the recovery from relationships with food that are full of guilt, secrets, and pain.
Anxiety
Therapy for anxiety means taking a deep look into the persistent feeling of worry that can become overwhelming, distracting, or limiting. It begins with understanding the tension that’s been sitting on your chest so you can start to move through it. While validating the protective skills you’ve built up over time, we’ll start walking through the practice of embracing rather than avoiding anxieties. You’ll learn how to assert needs and have confidence in boundaries rather than striving endlessly to please the people around them at the cost of your Self.
Trauma & Transitions
In many ways trauma is a transition. There is grief, pain, lingering feelings about the past. In the treatment of trauma we learn to observe the thoughts, beliefs, sensations, behaviors, and feelings that the experiences of the past have given you. We work through the grief of a life that has changed, and pay attention to what this means for your day to day life. We explore the many parts of self that work to keep you safe and work to find a deep and centered sense of self.
who my clients are
My clients are musicians, nurses, students, business professionals, entrepreneurs, and other therapists. They come with a wide array of life experience, and generally the reason they sought out counseling opens up new paths of self-discovery. I have the honor of working with clients through their eating disorders and anxiety, body image, grief, stress, people pleasing, life transitions, self worth, religious trauma, family or relationship conflicts, depression, and finding a sense of self.
Regardless of their reason for seeking a counselor, my clients each joined me when they reached a point in their journey where they realized they did not want to continue on the path they had been following. They spent long enough feeling like they were too much and yet never enough. They recognized it was time for a change even if they didn’t know how, or if it was even possible, for that change to begin.
In short, they began to ask the bold question: what if it didn’t have to be this way? They are intelligent, funny, kind, creative, courageous, and determined. And when they are willing to sit with the discomfort of the challenging work, they find the strength, skills, and support they need to move forward on a new road.
