WHAT SHOULD YOU EXPECT IN THERAPY WITH ME

Therapy is an active process, and meaningful change requires your participation. My role is not to simply agree with everything you say or tell you what you want to hear. Instead, I will gently challenge you when it serves your growth, using empathy, curiosity, and compassion to help you recognize patterns that may no longer be serving you.

I also want to be transparent about my approach: I do not give advice or make decisions for you. Rather than telling you what to do, I help you deepen your understanding of yourself, your experiences, and the ways you move through the world. Together, we will explore your thoughts, emotions, relationships, and patterns with the goal of increasing self-awareness and fostering lasting change. I believe you already possess the capacity and wisdom needed to move toward the life you want. My role is to walk alongside you, ask thoughtful questions, and create a space where you can uncover those answers for yourself.

As we move through this process, I will continue to get to know you, while always honoring that you know yourself more fully than I ever could. I will meet you exactly where you are, without enabling patterns that keep you stuck. I believe in offering empathy while also providing gentle, intentional challenges that bring awareness to the body, mind, spirit, and environment & support your growth at a pace that feels authentic to you.

My approach is holistic, drawing from systems-based, liberation-focused, trauma-informed, and relational perspectives. Rather than reducing you to a set of symptoms, I seek to understand your full humanity within the context of your lived experience.