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. It may be the opposite– feeling like you’re running on an empty tank and just going through the motions. Can also just be that you feel “off.” Ultimately, you’re surviving, not thriving.

Therapy can be a space to slow down and looking at what’s driving those feelings. 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.

When you’ve experienced something painful or unsettling, it can shape how you see yourself and the world around you. Sometimes, you might not even be sure if it “counts” as trauma, only that it’s stayed with you. Truth is, you don’t have to call it trauma for it to matter. Because if it stayed with you, it does matter. Regardless of if it’s from a single impactful event, collections of ‘smaller’ hurts, or a combination.

Healing doesn’t mean forgetting or erasing; it means learning to carry things differently. Our work together may focus on understanding yourself and how these past wounds may still show up and rebuilding your trust and confidence in yourself (Note: this doesn’t mean telling you’ll need to 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.

You don’t need a clear direction or answers before we start. Our sessions can be a grounding space to reflect and help you find your footing as you move into thise next chapter of your life.

Sometimes, the struggle isn’t necessarily one specific thing. It can be the quiet sense of feeling stuck or disconnected. Perhaps your life feels 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. My goal is to help you reconnect 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. Determining where the world may be asking too much of you and find sustainable ways for you to feel regulated, capable, and perhaps most importantly, at home with 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, 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 regulate in moments you need to – while also acknowledging we can’t deep breathe our way out of oppressive systems such as racism/false supremacy, capitalism, fascism, ableism, the patriarchy/misogyny, or discrimination based on who we love or our gender identity.