Healing rarely unfolds in a straight line. It can be tender, disorienting, and unexpectedly beautiful. Over the years, I’ve come to feel at home in this regenerative terrain and consider it a privilege to accompany others through their own unfolding. I understand healing as a profoundly relational and transformative process, and I meet clients with care, curiosity, and steady encouragement each leg of the journey.

Before becoming a therapist, I spent more than 15 years immersed in relational communication — as a community mediator, strategic planning facilitator for community leaders and nonprofit boards, and a compassionate communication coach. These experiences are foundational to how I help clients understand themselves, navigate conflict, and communicate with greater clarity and compassion.

In 2009, I had the privilege of studying Tibetan Buddhist psychology and the anthropology of Tibetans in exile in Dharamsala, India, where my teachers emphasized compassion, presence, humor, and the interconnectedness of suffering and transformation. And from 2016 to 2018, travels throughout Latin America further taught me how communities can cultivate resilience, ritual, and belonging — and how individual and collective healing nourish one another. These cross-cultural experiences shape the way I listen, attune, and accompany others in their healing.

Much of my adult life has been devoted to untangling from dysfunctional roles, programs, and narratives that were imposed on me — roles that required me to be incongruent with my true self in order to maintain relational homeostasis. My personal healing and integration work sparked a deep curiosity about why these relational patterns emerge and how our closest relationships shape (and are shaped by) the environments we move through. This exploration eventually led me to a master’s program grounded in systems theory and is foundational to how I think, listen, and practice as a therapist. My contemplative temperament and attention to patterns and myths also inspire me to incorporate analytic and humanistic perspectives into my approach to psychotherapy, allowing me to hold clients’ inner worlds with nuance and curiosity while remaining attuned to the relational influences that shape their experience.

Central to my work as an integrative and eclectic therapist is helping clients understand and transform the sacred wound: The deepest and most sensitive place inside someone where suffering and the possibility for profound transformation converge. The sacred wound often forms in response to toxic family dynamics such as chronic invalidation, demand for constructing a false self or masks, taking on family roles that may become dysfunctional in adulthood, attachment injuries, and/or abuse — experiences that fracture a person’s sense of a true self, belonging, and safety. I support clients in recognizing, naming, and understanding their unique sacred wound — and help to illuminate the process of transforming what hurts into what heals.

Because I know the excruciating ache of feeling chronically unseen, misunderstood, and dismissed, I strive to create a deeply validating therapeutic space for people who come to therapy questioning whether anyone will ever truly “get” them. I honor the complexity of each story and celebrate the moments — simple or profound — when something shifts. While I challenge clients when needed, I am also generously affirming and consistently approachable. I will believe in you — even, and especially, when you struggle to believe in yourself.

I consider myself a fellow traveler — a sister on the path — walking alongside clients with humility, presence, and deep respect for the courage it takes to venture towards wholeness.

Outside the office, I spend time with my partner of 21 years and those who nourish my spirit (be it deep contemplation, creative expression, or meaningless humor), tend to flora and fauna, and cultivate legacy projects like The Attuned Heart podcast, and writing contemplative essays, and poetry. I am also a nerd about the subjects I am most interested in at any given moment and research subjects (for fun!) to offer psychoeducational articles for this website. I cherish sincere vulnerability, play, and the kind of deep reflection that opens hearts and minds, and nourishes imaginations. I especially love exploring life’s big and seemingly impossible questions with fellow curious, open-minded humans who choose to be in no hurry.

Don’t worry — the verbosity of this website isn’t how I show up in the therapy room. Here, I’m simply offering enough depth and context about how I think, work, and grow so potential clients can get a fair sense of whether we might be a good therapeutic fit.

If you would like to explore whether we might be a good fit further, I offer a free 15-minute consultation.