Greetings! It can take courage and humility to reach out for counseling, whether you’re seeking to cope with a difficulty or loss, address mental health challenges, strengthen a relationship, or explore who you are. I honor these first steps, or latest steps, and welcome your contact.

Therapy can be a deeply personal learning and healing experience—exploring and reflecting, taking risks and trying new strategies, and growing in awareness and skill. My role in this process is collaborative; I offer caring attention, curiosity, and, when appropriate, gentle guidance and respectful challenge.

Aside from my years of supervised counseling with Shine A Light, graduate training and crisis counseling experience, I bring to my traineeship two decades of experience in education, as a teacher, learning specialist, and educational therapist—and over five decades as a human being, well-acquainted with the struggles of growing, managing feelings, coping with challenges, navigating relationships, creating family, making life choices, and finding purpose.

If your therapist is a good fit for you, your connection is more important than their particular therapeutic approach; but it might help you to know that my goal is to integrate the principles and practices of inner “parts” work (getting to know the various, often conflicted, aspects of ourselves) along with self-compassion-based, attachment-informed, and cognitive-behavioral therapies. Each offers a lens and set of tools for understanding and shaping the relationships we have with ourselves and, in turn, one another and our lives.