I believe that everyone comes into therapy wanting something to feel different – to be different in their lives. Often the desire to seek therapy comes from the overwhelming uncertainty of what that “something” even is. In this case, it is natural to feel stuck, disempowered by disorienting feelings and residue from the past that seem to control the way you move through life, holding you captive and threatening your sense of peace, wholeness, and capability. While therapy cannot change what has happened to you, through our work together, I aim to help you grow in your ability to move through the discomforts from your past, and those which will continue to be inevitable in life.

My approach focuses on guiding clients toward gaining insight. From there, we can adjust how they relate to past events, allowing for the softening of emotional impacts on daily functioning. Crucial to the efficacy of my work, I assist clients in regulating their nervous systems, helping them gain realization of their own intrinsic power, so they no longer feel overtaken and controlled by their feelings. To accomplish this, I help clients practice safely tuning into their feelings, learning when and how to trust those feelings as meaningful information, and develop skills to create space between what is happening and how they choose to respond. In other words, rather than feeling powerless to the movements of their emotions, I help clients evolve toward feeling a sense of freedom within their own being.

Together we’ll unearth the roots of painful patterns that keep you feeling stuck. We’ll examine your feelings and unconscious beliefs about yourself, and then shift how you relate to them, softening impacts in your daily life. We will work to vitalize your sense of peace, wholeness, capability, and ignite your intrinsic ability to move through discomfort.

I received my Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University and a Bachelor’s of Science in Sport and Exercise Science from the University of Northern Colorado. I completed my clinical training at the Children’s Institute, where I provided community-based mental health services to a diverse population of children, adolescents and their families. In addition to my education and training as a psychotherapist, I have a prior decade of experience as a surgical neurophysiologist, which helps inform the neurological foundations of my approach to therapy and specializations in chronic pain, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and eating disorder recovery. We’ll work toward repairing emotional dysregulation caused by experiences to the physical body.