I have always felt the world through the invisible threads connecting everything.

Before I became a therapist, I worked in environmental justice, studying ecosystems and organizing alongside communities, learning firsthand that nothing heals in isolation. That the health of a river cannot be separated from the health of the land and the people around it. That what damages one thread of a web is felt by the whole. I didn't know it then, but I was already being shaped by the understanding that would come to define everything I do: that healing, like life itself, happens in relationship. With each other. With our bodies. With the world around us.

It took my own life to teach me how personal that truth really was.

For a long time I carried things I couldn't fully name. My childhood looked fine on paper, loving and stable, which made it harder, not easier, to trust that what I was experiencing was real. There was an anxiety that never fully quieted. Physical symptoms that followed me for years, headaches, fatigue, joint pain, digestive issues, that doctors kept dismissing. A persistent sense that everyone else had figured something out that I hadn't, and that the problem must be me.

What took longer to understand was that the wounds that form earliest, in the relational fabric of childhood, don't announce themselves. They show up as the life you can't quite inhabit.

When I finally found work that went into the body, into the earliest relational patterns, into the places that understanding alone had never reached, something shifted that no amount of insight had been able to move. The chronic symptoms that had followed me for years began to ease. The anxiety that had always felt like simply the condition of being me, started to lift. For the first time I wasn't just making sense of my story. I was living differently inside it.

Healing happens not just in the mind, but in the body, in relationship, and in the slow reclamation of who you were always meant to be.

That experience became the foundation of everything I do as a therapist. I trained as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) under the model developed by Dr. Peter Levine, whose work taught me that the imprint of trauma isn't just a memory, it's a body state. I spent time at The Meadows, one of the country's leading trauma and addiction treatment centers, where I was trained directly in Pia Mellody's Post Induction Therapy, a powerful model for understanding and healing the childhood wounds that shape how we love, how we see ourselves, and how we move through the world. During that time I also had the privilege of learning from some of the most respected voices in trauma treatment, including Peter Levine, Resmaa Menakem, Richard Schwartz, and Lawrence Heller.

I've also had the rare and humbling experience of partnering with horses to offer equine-assisted psychotherapy, work that taught me more about nervous system attunement, presence, and the wisdom of the body than almost anything else.

My philosophy is simple, even if the work itself is not: I believe that relationships are the containers in which we heal. That the body holds what the mind cannot always access. That symptoms are not character flaws, they are intelligent adaptations to overwhelming experiences. And that beneath every pattern of self-protection is a person who deserves to be met with curiosity, not judgment.

I bring all of myself into this work. My training, yes, but also my lived experience, my reverence for the natural world, my belief that healing and meaning are inseparable. For those who are drawn to it, I hold space for the deeper dimensions of this journey, the symbolic, the sacred, the parts of ourselves that don't fit neatly into clinical language but are no less real for that. My genuine belief is that healing is possible. Not just management of symptoms, but real, felt, embodied change. A life that feels worth inhabiting.

If any of this resonates, I'd be honored to walk alongside you in your own journey of healing and becoming.