About

My Approach

I believe that each of us is innately equipped for healing, growth, and connection with self and others. As a therapist, I’ll collaborate with you to access or rediscover those capacities within yourself.  

Healing and change happens within the context of a secure, responsive, attuned, and caring therapeutic relationship. From that foundation, I will help you to learn to decipher what your body and emotions are communicating to you, approach your emotional experiences with curiosity, and develop new ways of interacting with yourself and others. My counseling style is relational, supportive, collaborative, and gently challenging. 

I offer a holistic and psychobiological approach, considering the ways that psychological, physical, social, cultural, and spiritual elements impact your life and perspective. As a registered yoga teacher and somatic psychotherapist, I’ll help you learn to use your body and mind as resources in your process of healing and growth.

I’m committed to providing socioculturally conscious counseling, meaning that I work to explore intersecting elements of identity and how they play into our therapeutic relationship. It also means that I actively check my own awareness, assumptions, and understanding of our overlapping and diverging identities, that I am open to discussing these elements in the therapeutic setting, and that I participate in additional consultation and training that support my growth as a clinician in these ways.

I have intensive, ongoing post-graduate training in Somatic Experiencing and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. I also draw from other approaches including Motivational Interviewing, mindfulness practice, Relational Psychodynamic Psychotherapies, Cognitive Behavioral Therapies (i.e ACT, CBT), LGBTQQIA+ affirming approaches, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and trauma-informed approaches to care. Anti-oppression frameworks, racial and gender equity, and feminist theory and ideology inform the foundation of all of my work.

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I’m a licensed clinical social worker and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner with a Masters of Social Work degree from UNC-Chapel Hill. Prior to opening this practice, I spent six years in both community-based mental health and private practice settings. Before that, I worked in the fields of international development and social justice, focusing on trauma-informed social change efforts in post-conflict regions. I also worked for seven years as a cross-cultural experiential educator and outdoor guide.  

Through these experiences, I’ve developed a deep appreciation for the types of healing and growth that can happen when we are able to step back from the patterns we’ve grown accustomed to, receive the support of attuned others, and re-engage our lives and relationships with renewed perspective, curiosity, and agency. 

I sincerely love my work as a therapist, and my clients can tell. I feel alive and inspired when supporting folks in building more connected and meaningful lives, when witnessing them get in touch with more of their own aliveness and resiliency. 

In my free time, I enjoy playing and exploring outdoors, traveling, experimenting as a new student of pottery and wheel-throwing, and spending time with my friends, partner, and beloved dog Townes.