My goal is to be the person I needed when I was younger. I want my clients to feel empowered, safe, hopeful, and well equipped for the challenges life throws at them. I love the blunt honesty, creativity, and willingness to change that I find in teenagers and young adults. I am also passionate about helping people of all ages find their voice and achieve their goals. I focus my therapy on helping my clients untangle patterns of behavior and patterns in relationships that are keeping them stuck.
I will teach you how to name and express your emotions, communicate assertively, set appropriate boundaries with others, cope with intense emotions, gain insights into your strengths and weaknesses, and how to have a healthy relationship with yourself.
I will gently nudge you out of your comfort zone because that is where change happens! I enjoy working with clients who are struggling with depression, anxiety, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, trauma, and low self-esteem, I also enjoy working with people who are seeking a deeper self-awareness or any kind of personal growth. I am down to earth, warm, and creative. I think therapy should be exciting, interesting, sometimes hard, and sometimes really fun.
The connection is the first and most vital part of the therapeutic process. One of my strengths as a therapist is easily making that connection with my clients. Exposing the rawest parts of ourselves to a seeming stranger can be daunting. I provide an open and non-judgmental space to explore the things that can even be hard to say out loud to ourselves.
My passion lies in helping them be self-aware and confident in a world that seems to keep throwing up obstacles to both. I have worked in different settings and helped people with a wide variety of problems over the years since starting my career as a therapist. The most common issues in my work are anxiety, depression, eating disorders, OCD, personality disorders, and family systems work. My goal as a therapist is to help move you forward in life while building a foundation, for your future.
