About Me
I’ve been working as a therapist for over a decade, helping people navigate anxiety, relationship difficulties, life transitions, and the deeper questions that can come up when life doesn’t feel the way we hoped it would.
Clients often describe me as calm, straightforward, and easy to talk to. I’m naturally curious about people and the patterns that shape their lives, and I take therapy seriously while keeping the conversation real and down to earth.
What continues to interest me most about this work is that the problem someone initially comes to therapy for is often only part of the story. Anxiety, dissatisfaction, relationship struggles, or simply feeling stuck can lead us to look more closely at how we’ve been living, what we’ve been avoiding, and what may need to change.
My Path to Becoming a Therapist
Therapy wasn’t my first career. Before entering the field, I spent several years working in technology in corporate environments. I eventually decided to change careers in my 30s and return to school to pursue work that felt more meaningful and better suited to me.
That experience has stayed with me, particularly in my work with people who feel dissatisfied in their careers or find themselves questioning the direction of their lives. Sometimes the path we’ve been following stops feeling like the right one, even when it may look perfectly fine on paper.
What Matters to Me in Therapy
I believe good therapy requires honesty, curiosity, and a willingness to look at things that may be uncomfortable. That doesn’t mean therapy needs to feel heavy all the time. It means creating a relationship where we can talk openly about what’s actually happening in your life without judgment or pretending.
I don’t expect you to arrive knowing exactly what’s wrong or what needs to change. Part of the work is figuring that out together. Sometimes that means understanding where a pattern came from. Other times it means recognizing what keeps it going now and beginning to respond differently.
Ultimately, I want therapy to help you not only understand yourself more clearly, but to use that understanding to live differently.
Experience and Training
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than a decade of experience providing psychotherapy. Over the course of my career, I’ve worked in hospital and community mental health settings, as well as group and private practice. These experiences gave me the opportunity to work with adults from a wide range of backgrounds dealing with anxiety, OCD, depression, trauma and PTSD, relationship difficulties, shame, grief, and major life transitions.
My work draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and psychodynamic therapy. I have particular experience working with anxiety disorders, including health anxiety and OCD.