“I bring warmth, curiosity, humor, and directness into the therapy room, creating a space where clients can show up fully—as they are, without performance or pretense.”
I am a relational therapist who believes meaningful therapy happens within the context of a genuine, trusting relationship. I am not a therapist who simply sits back and nods. I am engaged, active, and deeply interested in the people I work with and the lives they lead.
With nearly two decades of experience in the mental health field, I work with adolescents, young adults, adults, couples, and families navigating anxiety, OCD, trauma, life transitions, relationship challenges, identity, and complex family dynamics. I have particular expertise in working with elite athletes and high achievers—people who are often exceptionally capable on the outside while privately carrying enormous pressure, perfectionism, anxiety, or the persistent feeling that no matter how much they accomplish, it is never quite enough.
As a former Division I collegiate athlete and coach, I have a unique understanding of the identity, pressure, discipline, and vulnerability that can accompany high performance. I help athletes and other high achievers explore not only how they perform, but who they are beyond their accomplishments.
I also specialize in family systems and high-conflict family dynamics, working with individuals and families to understand longstanding patterns, navigate complicated relationships, and find healthier ways of relating to themselves and one another. My work is grounded in the belief that our relationships and experiences shape us deeply—and that understanding those patterns can create opportunities for meaningful change.
Throughout my career, I have developed specialized expertise in child sexual abuse, trauma, and the complex process of disclosure. I have served as an expert witness and consultant in cases involving child development, trauma, and sexual abuse disclosure, bringing nearly two decades of clinical experience to this highly specialized work.
At the heart of my work is a genuine interest in people—their stories, their relationships, their contradictions, their pain, and their capacity for growth.
As a member of both the LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities, I bring professional expertise, lived experience, and a deep commitment to creating spaces where people feel genuinely seen and understood. I have extensive experience working with LGBTQ+ individuals, couples, and families and welcome the full complexity of identity, culture, relationships, family structures, and lived experience into the therapy room without assumption or judgment.
A trained clinical hypnotherapist, I integrate hypnotherapy alongside relational, trauma-informed, cognitive behavioral, exposure-based, and family systems approaches. I do not believe in a one-size-fits-all version of therapy. Instead, I work collaboratively with each client, drawing from different therapeutic approaches while remaining deeply attentive to the individual person sitting across from me.
My personality has often been described simply as interested: interested in what makes people who they are, how their experiences have shaped them, what they carry, and what might become possible when they feel truly known.
Outside of the therapy room, I am a mom of three, an active and engaged community member, and someone who believes deeply in the importance of belonging and connection. My experiences as a parent, athlete, coach, clinician, and community leader inform the humanity and perspective I bring to my work, while my genuine curiosity about people remains at the heart of it all.
Therapy with me is active, relational, and deeply human. I believe people do not need to become entirely different versions of themselves to create meaningful change. Often, the work is about understanding what has shaped us, letting go of what no longer fits, and making more room for who we already are.
