Why I Do This Work
My relationship to this work is both professional and personal. I come from a lineage of complex trauma, where belonging often came at the cost of self. Over time, I learned that healing did not come through force, perfection, or self-sacrifice, but through returning, again and again, to what was true, steady, and already present beneath my experience. This work is not something I studied from a distance. It was learned slowly through finding ways to stay, organize, and come back when that felt difficult.
I chose an integrative approach because my own healing rarely followed a straight line. Through the labyrinths of shame, self-doubt, grief, and uncertainty, I found myself returning to the same realization: beneath our protective patterns is something deeply human, and uniquely our own. Our voice matters. Our needs matter. Our natural affinities, preferences, and ways of making meaning matter.
My Approach
I am grounded in person-centered theory, which holds that beneath our protective patterns, symptoms, and survival strategies is an inherent tendency toward growth, healing, and wholeness. My role is not to fit you into a model, but to help create the conditions in which your own voice can be heard more clearly.
For this reason, my work draws from multiple approaches, including somatic awareness, parts informed therapy, container imagery, mindfulness, art based expression, and other evidence based practices. Rather than relying on a single method, I follow what is present: your thoughts, emotions, body, relationships, and pace, while offering structure where it is needed and requested. My goal is not to fit you into a model. It is to support you in developing a deeper relationship with yourself: a day that holds you, rhythms and rituals that help you unburden what feels heavy, and repeated opportunities to return to a clearer, more conscious place from which to choose, create, and relate.
Beyond the Therapy Room
Outside of sessions, I create collages and curate visual spaces, explore voice, movement, and meditation, and spend time with my senior cat. These simple rhythms continue to remind me that healing is not something that happens only in moments of insight, but through the repeated ways we return to ourselves over time.
Training & Credentials
I hold a Master's degree in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Central Florida and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Florida. I am also certified in Clinical Trauma, Somatic Parts Work, and Play Therapy.
"The most personal is often universal, and therefore revolutionary."