About Me

In my experience as a clinician, I’ve learned that academic knowledge alone doesn’t impact lives; rather, connecting soul to soul is the most important part of the therapeutic process. I am the therapist I am today because I’ve lived my own healing journey. My continued path of recovery from childhood trauma allows me to show up for clients in a way that I wouldn’t be able to otherwise. 

I’ve been in the helping profession for 25 years, and I believe that most—if not all—of what we struggle with today is rooted in childhood trauma and family-of-origin experiences. When trauma isn’t dealt with, we create an unconscious process that drives our current thoughts, behaviors, and emotions. Time can’t heal this type of pain. Fully processing the trauma—connecting with the felt experience physically, emotionally, and mentally—is how it moves through us and allows for healing. 

My hope is to provide the support and resources necessary for those seeking true healing, as well as for clinicians who want to help their clients take the next step in recovery. Lasting healing and change is possible. I know. I’ve experienced it. 

Before entering private practice, I owned a consulting business providing leadership development and team building experiences to businesses and nonprofits, worked with older adults at a continuing care retirement community, and was a social worker in Seattle where I managed a transitional living program for homeless youth and their children.