About Me
Before coming to the therapy space, I spent nearly two decades in organizational leadership, coaching and developing individuals and teams in a variety of settings. It gave me firsthand insight into burnout, achievement pressure, identity struggles, and the quiet way high-functioning people can sometimes appear successful on the outside while feeling anxious, exhausted, or emotionally stuck on the inside.
Watching that gap between outward success and inward exhaustion up close, again and again (including, if I’m honest, in the mirror some mornings), is what eventually pulled me into counseling. My work today draws on trauma-informed and attachment-based approaches, including EMDR, to help people understand the why behind their patterns and restore a felt sense of regulation and calm in their nervous system. Not just insight, but an actual shift in how safe and settled life feels day to day.
I bring the same direct, grounded presence that shaped my years in leadership into the therapy room, minus the mandatory team-building exercises. My clients are often navigating identity, belonging, relationships, and self-acceptance, and what I hear most is that they want a space where they don’t have to perform, where they can drop the “supposed to” and figure out what’s actually true for them. If we can laugh together along the way, even better. Growth doesn’t have to be humorless.
Board Certified — NCC, via Credly
