Growing up, and entering young adulthood, comes with so many things to navigate, especially in today's world - relationships, school, identity, social media, and the work of figuring out who you are. It can feel like a lot to carry, especially when you're not sure who's safe to talk to about it.

Are you feeling anxious, sad, or stuck? Maybe you're carrying something you're not sure how to talk about. Or, you're working through questions about identity, sexuality, gender, or values, and what you want your life to look like. It could be that you need more than just your current support system, or you need a safe, nonjudgmental space to express yourself. 

Therapy with me will not feel like another adult lecturing you. I'm not going to hand you a worksheet and tell you to drink more water (although, please drink water!). We'll talk honestly, at a pace that feels right for you, to figure our what YOU want from therapy, and what will be supportive in developing new skills. You can show up exactly as you are — whatever your identity, however you're figuring it out — and not have to explain or defend yourself.

Over time, you can expect more trust in yourself, more room to be your authentic self, and a clearer sense of what's yours to carry and what isn't. You don't have to have it all figured out. 

Caregiving is some of the most profound work — and also some of the most invisible. Whether you're a parent, grandparent raising your grandchildren, foster or adoptive parent, kinship caregiver, or part of a chosen family raising a child or teenager, you're holding more than most people see.

Have you read the parenting books and you still can't figure out what's next? Maybe you're raising a child with complex trauma, attachment needs, or a nervous system that runs hot. You could be supporting a neurodivergent young person, and learning a whole new world right alongside them. If you're grieving a placement that ended, a relationship that's hard, or the version of parenting or caregiving you expected. You might be navigating a child's identity questions, friendship fallouts, or social media drama (maybe things you never had to navigate at their age). Or you might be carrying your own history while trying to do better or different with the children you care for.

I won't hand you a checklist or tell you to just set firmer boundaries (it's always more complicated than that). We'll talk about how your experiences as a caregiver are impacting you, ways to regulate yourself, untangle what's yours and what you are able to do about it, and we'll build tools together that are supportive to you and the children in your life.

I work with caregivers across all kinds of family configurations — foster, adoptive, kinship, blended, grandparent-led, polyamorous, chosen family, and however else yours is put together. I also support caregivers of LGBTQIA+ youth as you learn and grow alongside your child.

Over time, you can expect more room to breathe, more confidence in your own instincts, and the relief of being met where you actually are — not where the parenting books assume you should be. You're allowed to need support too.

By the time you reach adulthood, you're supposed to have figured most of this out - sure thing - this is our first time as humans, nobody has it all figured out.

Therapy with me isn't a place where you have to translate yourself first. I work with LGBTQIA+ adults, kink-engaged/exploring adults, people practicing ethical non-monogamy and polyamory, and folks in all kinds of relationship structures — and I bring lived familiarity, not just clinical curiosity. Open communication will support untangling what's yours versus what you inherited, and figure out what the skills you have to build and sustain the life you want.

Is the life you built in your twenties wearing thin in your thirties, forties, or beyond? Are you noticing things about your identity, your sexuality, your relationships, or what you want from your life that you couldn't have named ten years ago? You might be questioning your sexuality or gender, or exploring kink or non-monogamy and looking for a therapist who won't pathologize you or need a tutorial first. Maybe you are working through trauma from your early years that is just manifesting now. Or it could be that you are reassessing a career or relationship that no longer fits.

Over time, you can expect more self-trust, more clarity about what you actually want, and a deeper relationship with the version of yourself you've been quietly becoming. You're allowed to want what you actually want.

If you spend your working life holding space for other people — therapy, social work, counseling, education, child welfare, healthcare, first-response, crisis response, nonprofit leadership — you know things most people don't. You know what it's like to carry stories home with you. You know the particular exhaustion of being the calm in a storm. You know that "self-care" as it's typically prescribed, barely scratches the surface of what your nervous system needs for long term sustainability.

I work with helping professionals at every stage: the new clinician who's drowning, the seasoned one who can't remember why they got into this, the leader running on fumes, the person on the edge of leaving the field entirely. We talk about the cases that won't leave you alone, the secondary trauma you didn't sign up for, the identity questions that come up when your work is also who you are, and the very specific loneliness of being the strong one in every room.

Here's what I think real self-care actually is - It's doing your own healing work. It's walking the same path you're asking your clients to walk. It's noticing when you've drifted from your own values and finding your way back. The bath and the candle are fine; they're just not the work. The work is the whole way you show up — for them, and for you.

Over time, you can expect more capacity, more clarity about what's yours to carry and what isn't, and a sustainable relationship with the work you actually want to keep doing. Investing in your own wellbeing will only enhance the investment you're able to make in long term impact for those you serve.