I did not come to this work through theory only.
I learned it from being with people in their hardest moments.
Twenty years of
real clinical work
I've sat with women in domestic violence shelters,
with young people exiting child protective custody,
with people in acute crisis, and with high-functioning professionals who looked like they had everything together.
What all of them needed, more than anything else, was to be genuinely met.
I came to somatic, parts-based, and more depth-oriented work because the talking was not enough.
I kept seeing people who understood everything about their patterns and could not change them.
That's what brought me here
HOW I GOT HERE
My practice has evolved over time
as the women I work with.
It deepened. There were chapters I stayed in longer than was comfortable, and chapters I needed to outgrow.
EARLY CAREER
Domestic Violence Shelter
Direct work with women in crisis. Trauma, safety, survival and what it takes to rebuild a sense of self when everything has been stripped away.
FOLLOWING YEARS
Young Women Exiting Child Protective System
Supporting young women navigating the end of foster care — systemic trauma, attachment wounds, and building a life without a map.
MID CAREER
Community Mental Health
High-volume, high-acuity work across the full spectrum of mental health need. Where I learned to hold space for the full range of human suffering.
PRIVATE PRACTICE
When I moved into private practice, I made a deliberate choice:
I wanted to work with fewer people and go further with each of them.
Real, lasting change that shifts how someone moves through the world,
not just how they cope on hard days.
NOW
My practice is evolving with me
I am in a season of my own life that is reshaping how I understand this work.
Perimenopause, midlife, the particular kind of reckoning that comes when your body
starts asking questions your mind has not gotten to yet. I know this territory from the inside.
The way I am now is more focused, more intentional, and more honest than I've ever been.
I work with women who are ready to stop managing and start inhabiting their lives.
That work is harder and slower and more meaningful than anything else I know how to do.
WHAT WORKING WITH ME IS LIKE
This is not a space for
pushing progress.
01
You don't have to come here ready
You don't need clarity or the right words. The work often starts in the blur, a sense that something has to change, even if you cannot name what.
02
The pace follows your nervous system
Not just your story or your thoughts, but the place in your body where the patterns actually live. Somatic work means we include everything, not just what you can articulate.
03
I bring my full self
I am not a blank screen. I bring 20+ years of experience, genuine care, and a willingness to go to the hard places with you without judgment.
04
I'll meet your parts with curiosity
Using an IFS-informed lens means we approach every part of you, even the difficult ones. All of it. No version of you is too much for this room.
05
The work is not directive or prescriptive
You will not get homework or a method. You will get genuine therapeutic presence and space to do the real work at whatever pace your nervous system can handle.
06
The goal is not to fix you
You are not broken. The goal is to help you stop working against yourself — so that the capacity you have always had can actually be available to you.
07
We go slowly enough to actually change
Real change is not fast. But it is also not endless. We work at the depth that produces lasting shifts, not surface-level coping that requires constant maintenance.
TRAINING & CREDENTIALS
The foundation
underneath the work
LICENSURE & EDUCATION
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC)
Licensed in Illinois since 2010
Master of Arts, Forensic Psychology — 2008
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
SPECIALIZED TRAINING
IFS-Informed Therapy
Parts-based work that approaches every aspect of you, including the parts that protect, with curiosity rather than judgment
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Level One
Body-centered trauma therapy that works directly with posture, movement, and physical sensation alongside narrative
Hakomi Psychotherapy Graduate
Mindfulness-based somatic therapy that uses present-moment body experience as the primary pathway to deep change
Depth Psychotherapy Orientation
Long-form, meaning-focused work that explores the unconscious, identity, and the fuller architecture of a person's inner life
Multiple Trauma, Somatic & Attachment Trainings
Ongoing specialized training in trauma treatment, somatic approaches, and attachment theory as it applies to adult therapeutic work
WHO I WORK WITH
Overfunctioning women navigating anxiety
The type of anxiety that looks like success from the outside
Trauma and complex trauma
Including the kind that does not come with a clear event
Burnout as a nervous system issue
Not a productivity problem, but a body that is been giving more than it is received
Perimenopause & midlife transitions
When the body and the self are both changing at once
WHAT I BELIEVE ABOUT HEALING
The principles behind
every single session
I
Healing is possible and it requires more than doing the right things
Real healing that changes how you experience yourself requires feeling genuinely different in your body and in your relationships.
II
Speed is the enemy of depth, but slow does not mean stuck forever
You can move toward healing at a pace your system can actually integrate — which is faster than you might think, and slower than you'd probably prefer.
III
The body is not the obstacle. It's holding the map
Working with the body is not a workaround. For most high-functioning women, it is the most direct route to what is not shifting.
IV
There are no bad parts, only parts that have not been understood yet
When the anxiety, the perfectionism, the shutdown feels understood, it can begin to change. Sometimes dramatically.
V
You get to want a life, not just symptom relief
The women I most love working with want more than to hurt less. They want to feel like themselves again.
READY WHEN YOU ARE
The first conversation
does not commit you to anything.
The consultation is a chance to get a sense of each other and decide if it feels right. No pressure. No forms before we have spoken.