Counseling
Sometimes it helps to have a dedicated space to practice first — that’s what counseling can offer. I see kids, families, adults, and couples as a registered mental health counselor intern, through Expansive Counseling and Togetherness Counseling.
Kids and Families
Big feelings are part of growing up — but when a child is stuck in fight, flight, or shutdown more often than not, the whole family feels it. I work with children, teens, and families navigating school stress, behavioral struggles, and the ripple effects of a dysregulated nervous system, using play, creative expression, and family-systems work to help kids — and the adults around them — find their footing again.
Adults and Couples
You've followed the script—the expectations around success, relationships, belief systems, and who you're "supposed" to be. On paper, you might have it all figured out. You might even have a deep, intellectual understanding of your own patterns. But underneath the performance or behind the analysis, something feels disconnected.
Maybe you're realizing that traditional relationship structures don't fit, that the faith you inherited no longer serves you, or that you're exhausted from managing everyone else's expectations. Knowing why you feel this way isn't bringing relief anymore—you want to actually feel free, aligned, and fully inhabited in your own body.
Therapy with me is a space for curiosity, somatic reconnection, and reconstruction. I work with high-functioning, analytical adults ready to drop the mask, deconstruct inherited norms, and move out of their heads into authentic living. My own intentional journey away from religion, traditional relationship structures, and societal scripts deeply informs my practice.
I am passionate about supporting:
Those deconstructing religion, processing purity culture, religious trauma, and spiritual transitions.
People moving past cognitive loops to embody their truth with somatic awareness.
Not sure where to start?
Why I Do This Work
Before I was a therapist, I was a teacher — thirteen years in the classroom. And what I saw, over and over, was a system built around an “average” student who doesn’t really exist. Kids are expected to fit inside a pretty narrow box, and most of them don’t. When that happens, I watched kids start to mold themselves into who they were expected to be, instead of staying connected to who they actually are — and slowly lose the ability to hear the parts of themselves that feel true and authentic.
As a teacher, I did everything I could within that system: building in emotional regulation where I could, calling out each kid’s real strengths, weaknesses, and unique capabilities, not just the ones that showed up on a rubric. But I was limited by the structure I was working inside of. Counseling was how I found a way to meet the bigger need I kept seeing — kids and families who needed more room than a classroom, or even a school system, could give them.
A lot of what parents are looking for is direction: a real understanding of what’s developmentally typical, how to show up for their child as the individual they are, and how to give that child genuine, undivided attention where they get to just be themselves. That’s a lot of what this work is.
How We Work Together
In session, I use a mix of direct and indirect play therapy. Indirect play therapy gives kids room to just play — a genuinely safe space for expression, which matters a lot as we start peeling back the layers a lot of kids have already built up by the time they get to me. Direct play therapy is more intentional, focused on building specific strengths, self-esteem, and positive qualities kids can carry with them outside of our sessions.
I also bring in creative arts therapy — thinking maps and art — as a way for kids to express themselves, process, and make connections in a way that works with how their brain actually makes sense of things, not against it.
Parents are part of this too. Including a parent in part of the work lets a kid feel that undivided attention — seen and heard — which builds the parent-child connection itself. It also gives me space with the parent, one-on-one, for real psychoeducation: what’s developmentally expected, what’s not, and what you can actually start implementing at home and at school.
This isn’t abstract for me, either. I’m a mom of two boys, and I’ve watched emotional regulation go from something we were “working on” to something that’s just part of our daily routine. I know what it looks like when it actually sticks, because I’ve built it into my own house — not just recommended it in a session.
Grounded enough to be curious about yourself and each other.
A Free Guide for Parents
A free 24-page guide with practical, everyday tools to support a child with big feelings — at home, at school, and in counseling.