Do you often feel guarded, tense, withdrawn, or detached? 

Are you easily startled?

Has sleep felt exhausting rather than restful?

Do you know you need help but don't know where to possibly start?

I often work with women and non-binary adults who are healing from trauma. PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) symptoms can be destabilizing.

Two people may experience the same event and only one person may develop PTSD. 

Cultivating a trauma-informed, safe, and non-judgmental relationship for you to process challenging thoughts and heavy feelings to find your resilience is vital in my approach. 

I'll be here with you as a human listening to your story when you're ready to process it. If you have pets, they are welcome in our sessions (a major perk of telehealth).

Our work towards your therapeutic goals will emphasize your strengths while we practice new regulation skills so you can heal.

Are you facing a new health diagnosis and wondering, "what now?" 

Are you looking for mental health support while living in a body that just refuses to cooperate?

Does ableism, or disability discrimination, impact your well-being?

Living with a chronic illness, disability, temporary, or lifelong disability can add additional stressors in daily life.

Chronic illness and chronic pain can often be dismissed by healthcare providers or may be misdiagnosed— especially  among women.

In my practice, I hold space for clients to process the negative impact that disability discrimination leaves on the psyche, and the transition after receiving a new diagnosis. 

My work supports adults diagnosed with new health issues, especially ADHD, Autism, and other developmental disabilities.  

Being diagnosed with Autism in your twenties is *an experience*!

Some of the chronic health issues my clients experience: 

• Crohn's Disease
• ADHD, Autism, and other developmental disabilities
• Diabetes
• ME/CFS, Long COVID ("Longhaulers")
• Traumatic and Acquired Brain Injury (TABI)
• Autoimmune Disorders 
• Persistent depression

I am listed as a COVID cautious provider and a TBI mental health resource in Alaska

Are you tired of yelling in disagreements in your relationships? Does the same problem keep coming up, again, and again? 

Do you desire healthy relationships but don't know where to begin?

Whether the relationship you need help with is an intimate partner, friend, colleague, parent, child, sibling, or chosen family: I’ve noticed many clients benefit (and enjoy) after receiving psychoeducation and counseling around their attachment style(s).

I use the attachment style theory framework along with skill development around healthy communication, identifying and maintaining boundaries and relationship needs, healthy conflict, and identifying abuse.

Let's replace behaviors such as co-dependency and people-pleasing with healthy behaviors through individual or group therapy.

My work supports clients who identify and practice as monogamous, non-monogamous (ENM), or polyamorous in their relationships from nonjudgemental perspective. 

Parents or caregivers of children with mental health issues (e.g., depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD) face unique experiences in their parent-child relationship(s) and home life. 

I provide psychoeducation on trauma and youth mental health while teaching supportive skills for parents to better connect with dysregulated youth in a non-judgemental, confidential space.

I use interventions such as the ARC (Attachment, Regulation, and Competency) Framework, Parenting with Love and Limits, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), providing psychoeducation, though I use whichever approach best fits with you and your family system.

I use motivational interviewing and behavioral activation with clients who are seeking to improve their lives and meet goals in life whether for their career, relationships, sense of achievement, or health.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is another valuable approach which incorporates positive psychology. SFBT is well-suited for people who want to make changes but don't have the time or desire to go to therapy for more than ~2 months. SFBT lasts about 8 sessions (or less).

Therapists have a fondness for coping skills.

I support clients who are seeking coping skills for issues like insecure attachment styles, anger, self-esteem, depression, sleep disturbance, struggling to cope due to ADHD or another developmental disability, trauma, getting through a difficult situation, surviving the next family event, settling nerves before a big trip or life transition: let's find what works for you.

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Has your life changed with a new health diagnosis? Or, do you experience ongoing undiagnosed symptoms impacting your well-being?

Do you feel alone in a new city? 

Can you recall the last time you slept well enough and woke up feeling energized?

Are you facing a seemingly inescapable feeling of failure?

My work supports clients who may be coping with a new medical diagnosis, experiencing relationship/marriage difficulties, starting college (at any age), sleep difficulties, expecting a new child, navigating career changes, enduring grief, and more. 

Our sessions will be geared towards your goals while prioritizing your emotions, well-being, and process, in "real-time."

I draw from existential therapy, narrative therapy, mindfulness-based interventions, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and somatic therapy to support clients struggling with a transition.