"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

Who often receives the most benefit from working with me and my therapeutic style:

• Individual grieving adults, grief work in a relational, realistic way

• Recovering people pleasers or those who seek recover from a lifetime of people pleasing behaviors

• Highly Sensitive people, empaths, those with sensory processing differences, ADHD and others who identify as neurodivergent

• members of the LGBTIQ+ community

• Children 3-12 years old and their families looking for developmentally appropriate, evidenced-based practices like play therapy

• Female identified individuals who are looking to explore their identity and expand their lived role-repertoire in their lives

• Those seeking more long-term, depthful, insight-oriented and relational therapeutic work.

Please note I do not provide couples counseling at this time. The type of family therapy I provide is family play therapy for families with children ages 3-12 years old.

Mission

The creation of this mental health practice is in service of the transformative power of relational work, and serves individual adults, children ages 3-12 years old and their families, and group therapy. That work is done through expressive arts, embodiment, play, verbal exploration and connection to self and others to address the instability of life and our response to it. Creative energy helps clients understand old patterns and determine to make room for new ones to arise.

The approach of this practice is founded in the humanization of our experiences, not a pathological foundation. We are wired to seek connection with each other, and we have an innate desire for healing. If we approach our behaviors with curiosity, we decrease shame and blame and gain an understanding that allows for perspective shifting.

I aim to:

Help struggling kids and families find the building blocks to healing using the language of play. 

Help adults who feel disconnected from others and themselves find the link back to being in relationship to what matters most through insightful, relational work.

Provide training, consultation and supervision to those who are seeking trauma-informed, system driven, and developmentally appropriate interventions for youth, families and individuals.

Empower recovering people pleasers, neurodivergent folks, empaths, highly sensitive people, LGBTIQ+ folx and children to make the changes they want to see in their lives.

Support grieving individuals in navigating their life without their loved one, helping them discern between the pain of grief (which cannot be transformed), and the suffering of grief (which can be worked with). Grief is not something we “get over”, or “grow from”, but rather, we learn to live with the grief we carry, as grief is love with no place to go. I aim to support grieving individuals move at their own pace through their grief, honor their person they’ve lost, honor themselves, and eventually, support them in taking new steps in their life and learn how to carry their grief through it all.

Infuse my work with the power of creative arts for multiple forms of expression of the human experience.

I aim to help you navigate the instability of life with greater agency, autonomy, and empowerment.

Beliefs of this practice:

Change is hard.

You don’t need to be fixed.

Everyone deserves to be heard, seen, and received as a fundamental need of being human.

You deserve to take up space.

There is no such thing as “bad” feelings.

Thinking about feelings and feeling feelings are not the same process.

Relationships are hard, even when they’re great.

Seeking mental health support doesn’t mean you are crazy.

You have coped the best way you knew how through what you have experienced. You may be seeking support now because what has gotten you through adversity in the past is no longer serving you. It’s important to honor the ways we have gotten through our experiences, even if they no longer serve us. They were there for a reason. You may have outgrown them and are ready for change.

You can set boundaries and identify your needs, even if you have spent your whole life without strong skills in those areas. Even if it hasn’t been modeled for you. Even if you make mistakes.

How well do you know your nervous system? How often do you notice, take in your experience, those you encounter with mindfulness and intentionality? How often are you aware of the feelings these experiences evoke within you, and all the options you have in response? How often do you think about feeling rather than feel your feelings?