I am a somatically oriented, depth-focused, neuroaffirming therapist and expressive arts therapist. I work with thoughtful, self-aware adults who often understand why they feel the way they do, yet still find themselves stuck in patterns that insight alone hasn’t shifted.

 

Many of the people I work with sense that something deeper—often held in the body, nervous system, or in layers of experience that don’t easily translate into words—is asking to be met.

 

I hold this work within the reality of living in difficult times. Many of the challenges people bring to therapy are not signs of personal failure, but understandable responses to chronic stress, uncertainty, and lives that ask more of our nervous systems than they were ever meant to hold.

 

Therapy can be a place to slow down, orient, and reconnect with what supports vitality, meaning, and a felt sense of choice.

 

I also work with women in midlife (inclusive of trans women and non-binary folks) who are navigating perimenopause, menopause, and the emotional, physical, and identity shifts that often accompany this stage of life. This period can bring changes in energy, mood, embodiment, and self-concept, often sharpening long-standing patterns or questions about how one wants to live. I approach this work with care, curiosity, and deep respect for the body’s timing and wisdom.

 

 

My approach to therapy is collaborative and non-pathologizing. Rather than viewing neurodivergence or sensitivity as something to be fixed, I understand many struggles as meaningful adaptations shaped by nervous systems, relationships, and environments that were not always supportive.

 

 

 My work is centered in expressive arts therapy, which uses creative processes as a way of listening to what lives beyond words. Through imagery, movement, sound, writing, and metaphor, we explore inner experience in ways that support integration, self-trust, and meaning-making. No artistic skill is required—the arts are used as a language for exploration rather than performance or productivity. This work is supported by somatic and depth-oriented psychotherapy, including Hakomi, a mindfulness-based somatic approach grounded in nonviolence and mind–body integration.

 

By slowing down and attending to present-moment experience, we gently explore how core beliefs, emotional patterns, and relational experiences are held in the body—often beneath habits of self-criticism, pushing through, or disconnecting from what matters.

 

Sessions are adapted to support sensory needs, pacing, and nervous system capacity. I also integrate Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), particularly in supporting clients to relate differently to difficult thoughts and emotions, clarify values, and move toward lives that feel more aligned and meaningful—even when uncertainty or discomfort is present.

 

Areas of Focus I often support adults navigating:

• Late diagnosis or self-identification of ADHD and/or autism

• Masking, unmasking, internalized shame, and burnout

• Trauma and developmental or relational wounds

• Anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions

• Identity exploration, self-trust, and nervous system repair

• Midlife transitions, including perimenopause and menopause.

 

 Therapy with me is responsive rather than prescriptive—grounded, spacious, and deeply human. I see therapy as a place to be met rather than fixed, where safety, awareness, and new possibilities can gradually emerge.. This work may also include exploration of meaning, values, and sources of connection—such as relationship to the natural world, creativity, ancestry, or spiritual frameworks—when these are important to you.

 

 

Expressive Arts Therapists offer sessions that integrate creative expression (for example; visual arts, creative writing, drama, creative ritual, music, poetry, or dance/ movement) alongside talk therapy and somatic  practice as a catalyst for personal inquiry, discovery, healing and growth.

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