You'll find me cheering at the Arizona Cardinals games.
A LOUD CARDINALS FAN
Time with my husband and kids, and our happy place, Disneyland.
MY FAMILY IS MY HEART
My favorite thing is curling up with a blanket and a good book.
A GOOD BOOK AND A BLANKET
Three things about me!
I became a therapist because I know what it is to look like you have it all together while quietly running on empty. I draw on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps you unhook from the harsh inner voice and take real steps toward what matters, and Motivational Interviewing, which means I meet you where you are and help you find your own reasons for change. In plain terms: we work with your feelings instead of fighting them.
Here's the thing: women carry a different kind of weight. We're taught to hold it all together, to be the calm one, to make everyone else comfortable first. I built this practice exclusively for women because that experience deserves a therapist who has lived it too, not just studied it. This is not a general practice with a women's specialty. This is the whole practice.
Almost every client I work with, I ask the same question early on: do you love yourself? Almost nobody says yes right away, and that's not failure, it's the starting line. I believe you can't truly take care of anyone else until you take care of you, not as a nice idea, but as simple math. That belief shapes every session we have together.
will never pretend therapy is easy, but I refuse to let it be joyless. If we can laugh together at the absurd parts of being human, the hard parts get easier to carry. Clients tell me they expected a couch and silence. What they get is real conversation, real humor, and someone who meets them exactly where they are.
I will never tell you what you want to hear just to keep the peace. My job isn't to make you comfortable, it's to help you get well. That means I'll gently challenge you, ask the question you're avoiding, and tell you the truth even when it's easier not to. That honesty is where the real work actually starts.
