I have always wanted to be someone people could feel safe with…

Throughout my career, I have spent years supporting children, families, and individuals through moments that were difficult, overwhelming, or uncertain. One thing became increasingly clear to me: we all experience hard things, but not everyone has someone they feel they can truly turn to. I wanted to create the kind of space where people didn’t have to carry everything by themselves.

Then grief changed my understanding of support…

Experiencing grief in my own life changed me deeply. It changed how I understood loss, how I saw the world, and even how I understood myself. I learned that grief isn’t something we simply “get over”. Sometimes an experience changes the shape of your life, and part of healing is learning who you are within that new shape.

It also showed me the difference between having people around you and feeling truly supported. Sometimes we need someone who is willing to sit beside us in the difficult parts without rushing us, fixing us, or expecting us to move on before we are ready.

Therapy gave me a way to support people on a deeper level…

Becoming a therapist allowed me to take what had always mattered to me, being there for people, and bring another layer of knowledge, intention, and care to it. Whether someone is grieving, anxious, overwhelmed by change, struggling to regulate big emotions, or simply trying to understand themselves again, I want therapy to feel like a place where they can put some of that weight down.

Being a therapist now…

I believe people deserve a space where they can show up exactly as they are. You don’t need to have the perfect words, know exactly what you need, or have a plan for what comes next. My role is to meet you there, help you recognize the strengths you may have lost sight of, and work alongside you as we figure out what moving forward can look like.

Sometimes therapy is about learning new tools. Sometimes it is about making sense of what happened. And sometimes, it is simply about finally having a safe place to say, “This is really hard,” and knowing someone is there to hear you.