When you’re carrying the weight of anxiety, stress, depression or persistent low mood, life can start feeling like it’s a series of things to “get through” rather than experience and enjoy. You might feel permanently on edge and unable to truly relax even when you have the time, or the opposite—feeling like you’re running on an empty tank and just going through the motions. Maybe it’s not so glaring, but you just feel “off” and ultimately you’re surviving when you want to be thriving.

Together, we can look at what is driving those feelings and what you may need for yourself. My goal is to help you move beyond just “managing” your day and towards a life where you feel more balanced and able to breathe, to ultimately feel like you can enjoy life a little more.

Pain has a way of sticking with us, in both our bodies and our minds. You might feel like you’re constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop or this sense of danger when things are calm. Your emotions may feel intense and overwhelming, or maybe you aren’t really feeling much of anything, more so just numb and disconnected from the world. Trauma can look so different from person to person, so it may be none of these, but still there’s some sort of lasting impact.

You also might not be sure if what you’re experiencing “counts” as trauma, you only know that something stayed with you. I want you to know your story is significant. Whether it’s from hurtful event(s), the weight of systemic or generational stressors, or a collections of “smaller” hurts built up over time, you don’t have to have a specific label of your experience for it to be worth tending to.

Healing is an ongoing process, part of which is learning to carry things differently (since we can’t simply forget or erase). Our work together focuses on understanding yourself and how these past wounds may still show up, as we move to (re)build safety, trust, and confidence in yourself.

[Note: this doesn’t mean telling you’ll need to repeat your story of trauma over and over]

Change can bring a lot of uncertainty and throw us off-kilter, even in the times we chose it. If you’re navigating a transition—such as career shift, graduating, self-discovery, experiencing a change in your relationship(s), or moving—you might be feeling a bit lost or overwhelmed.

Our sessions can be a grounding space to reflect and help you find your footing as you move into this next chapter of your life, even if you don’t have a clear direction before we start.

Sometimes, the struggle isn’t necessarily one specific thing, but instead an uneasy (but often subtle) sense of feeling stuck or disconnected. Your life might feel a bit scattered despite your best efforts, or you notice you’ve been incredibly hard on yourself.

We’ll work on understanding those patterns and strengthening your self-compassion and self-understanding, to help you (re)connect with yourself and find an internal sense of steadiness and balance.

Living in a world that wasn't built for your neurodivergent brain can be exhausting. Whether you have a formal diagnosis, are self-identified, or have always just felt “different,” I want to say you’re not “too much,” not “not enough” and your neurodivergence is not a problem to be solved.

Instead of trying to force yourself to function like everyone else (which is a path that so often leads to burn out), we’ll focus on how you’re uniquely wired. We’ll look at where the world may be asking too much of you and find sustainable ways for you to feel regulated, capable, and perhaps most importantly, more peace within yourself.

There are a lot of systems in place doing real harm and/or protecting said harm and the people causing it. There’s a lot of heavy news—some sad, some infuriating, some scary, some exhausting. Scrolling social media can be a roller coaster of meme, tragedy, funny reel/TT, relatable post, “he did/said what!?". . . rinse, wash, repeat. It can be overwhelming, and have you wondering if something is wrong with you since others may not be responding and change isn’t happening (yet).

That’s all real and valid. I’m not going to promise that I have all the answers by any means, because I don’t. But you deserve a space where you know that you can process your thoughts and reflect on the impacts of the state of the world. You deserve a therapist who knows it’s often not personal or individual issues, but rather systemic. Who knows that feeling emotions in response to what’s going on is HUMAN, and we don’t need to shut those down or treat it like a “disorder.”

We can work together to find what helps bring you some level of happiness & hope and to either accept or regulate (depending on what’s needed in the moment), while also acknowledging we can’t deep breathe our way out of oppressive systems such as racism/white body supremacy, capitalism, fascism, ableism, the patriarchy/misogyny, or discrimination based on who we love or our gender identity.