I’m a licensed mental health therapist in the state of Washington, practicing since 2012.
I am certified in EMDR, and have completed extensive trauma-focused trainings throughout my career. I’ve worked in community mental health, in a group practice alongside a neuroscientist and a forensic psychologist, and for the past seven years I’ve been in private practice exclusively, working primarily with trauma survivors and high achievers.

I use a trauma-informed and attachment-based approach. My clinical foundations include:

• EMDR

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

• Attachment-based and relational work

• Nervous-system and emotional regulation work

At the core, the work I do is about helping you develop a relationship with yourself — maybe for the first time.
Trauma often creates patterns of disconnect: people-pleasing, overfunctioning, ignoring your body’s signals, abandoning your own needs. I help you learn to hear yourself again. To trust what you feel. To actually respond to your inner world instead of overriding it.

If you have intrusive, scary, suicidal, or homicidal thoughts — or fears you’ve never dared say out loud — you are safe here.

We’ll start with emotional regulation and safety in your physicality first — because you cannot think your way out of a dysregulated nervous system.

How I work

For a long time, I believed therapists had to be neutral, clinical, and sterile. That professionalism meant hiding who I was.
Now I know the opposite is true.

I am:

• Human

• Real

• Attuned

• Sometimes funny

• Never performative

I show up as myself so you can show up as yourself.
When there’s an authentic connection, healing actually happens.

Who I work best with

• Trauma survivors

• High achievers who look “fine” on the outside

• People who have learned to disconnect from their own needs

• People who are tired of performing self-sufficiency

If you’re ready to stop abandoning yourself, I know how to help.

If reaching out feels scary

You don’t have to come to therapy polished.
You don’t have to know what to say.

Just bring your truth — messy, raw, unsure, whatever it is.

I’ll meet you there.