About

You’re not alone – I’ve been there, too.

My interest in this work is personal as well as professional. After years of being told to try harder, pay closer attention, and push through, I learned in college that I had learning differences. Like many women, I was diagnosed with ADHD later in life. I excelled in some areas while struggling significantly in others, particularly in environments that were not designed for how my brain works. Understanding ADHD and learning differences brought clarity, not because something was “wrong,” but because there was finally an explanation.

That understanding shaped how I approach therapy. I have experienced firsthand how anxiety, self-doubt, and negative self-talk can quietly erode confidence, creativity, relationships, and overall well-being, especially when struggles go unrecognized or misunderstood.

These experiences have deeply informed my clinical practice.

My own challenges have motivated me to be of service to others. Whether grappling with anxiety, neurodiversity, insomnia, navigating the “Sandwich Generation,” caring for and losing aging parents, or parenting children with special needs, I have sought out resources and found insights that feel important to share.

Over time, my clinical work has focused on anxiety and trauma as they show up across the lifespan and in the body, including disrupted sleep, IBS and other gut-brain symptoms, chronic stress, performance pressure, and persistent overwhelm. I take a neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed approach that considers how past experiences, nervous system patterns, and current demands interact, rather than treating symptoms in isolation.

I also bring extensive experience working with adoption and identity-related trauma. I spent many years as an adoption social worker supporting pre-adoptive parents, adoptees, and transracial families, and I built my own family through transracial adoption. I am proud to identify as an adoption-competent clinician, something that can be difficult to find. For me, parenting requires an ongoing commitment to racial justice, advocacy around learning differences and limb differences, and creating space for early childhood grief, loss, and trauma.

Across all of my work, I have learned that anxiety rarely stays in one lane. It affects the body, relationships, confidence at work, and how we show up in the world. My goal is for therapy to be focused, collaborative, and paced to support meaningful change, not temporary fixes.

As a trauma-focused, anti-oppressive, anti-racist therapist, it has been an honor to serve children and families, older adults, incarcerated individuals, veterans, actors, artists, filmmakers, freelance creatives, neurodiverse and LGBTQIA+ individuals, and students of all ages.