ABOUT ME

I believe therapy works best when there is a genuine human connection at the center of it. My goal is to create a space where you feel understood, challenged, and supported as you work toward meaningful change.

Over the years, I've become increasingly interested in the moments when life asks us to rewrite the story we tell about ourselves. Becoming a parent, losing someone we love, navigating relationship changes, career shifts, aging, or realizing that an old identity no longer fits can leave us feeling uncertain and untethered. Therapy can help us make sense of these transitions, reconnect with ourselves, and discover what comes next.

What Therapy With Me Is Like

My style is warm, engaged, thoughtful, and collaborative. I tend to be an active therapist, meaning I’m not simply sitting silently while you do all the work alone. Therapy with me often involves making connections, exploring patterns, asking difficult questions with compassion, and occasionally finding humor in the messiness of being human.

I believe meaningful therapy happens through a genuine relationship — one where you feel respected, understood, and able to show up honestly without feeling judged or talked down to.

My Philosophy

In many ways, the work we do together can be boiled down to three simple ideas:

Awareness. Insight. Inspiration.

We begin by developing greater awareness of what’s happening inside your heart and mind. From that awareness, deeper insight begins to emerge: about the patterns you’ve developed, the beliefs you hold about yourself, and the ways you’ve learned to navigate life. And with that understanding often comes the inspiration and self-trust to pursue what you want for your life, not just what others expect of you.

My Background

Before becoming a therapist, I spent years working in writing, comedy, and live storytelling. One of the most meaningful experiences during that time has been co-leading Mortified, a storytelling project that is built around people from all walks of life, across the globe, sharing their awkward, real teenage diaries on stage.

Reading thousands of once-private adolescent diaries has given me a front-row seat to the fears, identities, insecurities, hopes, and survival strategies people develop early in life and how those patterns often continue shaping us as adults. I have witnessed the kind of growth and catharsis that can happen when we face our most awkward, painful coming of age moments with bravery and a sense of humor. I also produced a podcast for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that used humor and storytelling to help kids (aged 9-13) navigate rules and decision making in their life.

That experience deeply influenced the way I understand therapy. Beneath most anxiety, depression and shame is usually a person trying to belong, feel loved, or make sense of who they’re “supposed to be.”