Counseling for the Full Complexity of Who You Are
I take a whole-person approach to anxiety, overwhelm, and the challenges of everyday life.
As a licensed professional counselor, I offer a steady, supportive space to reflect and reconnect with yourself. Counseling can help you make sense of your inner world when anxiety or emotional overwhelm begin to feel like too much to carry alone.
Many of the people I work with are thoughtful and deeply self-aware. They often think carefully and spend a lot of energy managing life on the outside while privately feeling anxious, burned out, overextended, or emotionally exhausted. Some identify as highly sensitive people, while others simply notice they are more easily impacted or emotionally attuned than those around them.
In our work together, we slow things down and focus on what’s happening beneath the surface — emotional patterns, internal pressure, and coping strategies like overthinking, pushing through, shutting down, or staying constantly “on.” We work to understand these patterns and build practical skills that support emotional steadiness and self-trust.
The focus is not on changing who you are, but on helping you relate to yourself with more understanding, flexibility, and care.
Common Reasons People Seek Therapy
People often come to therapy with a mix of emotional, relational, and internal experiences that feel difficult to manage alone. I work with individuals navigating:
Anxiety, overthinking, and persistent self-doubt
Emotional overwhelm while appearing “high-functioning” on the outside
Burnout, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and difficulty slowing down
Emotional sensitivity, intensity, or feeling deeply affected by stress and conflict
Low self-esteem and harsh self-criticism, even in the face of outward success
Difficulty understanding, expressing, or regulating emotions
Anger, shutdown, or feeling disconnected from yourself
Relationship patterns that feel draining, one-sided, or emotionally exhausting
Questions of identity and self-understanding, including gender-related experiences
My approach integrates DBT with compassionate, person-centered care.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers practical skills for navigating anxiety, emotional overwhelm, relationship stress, and the experience of being a deeply feeling or highly sensitive person in a world that can often feel fast, demanding, or overstimulating.
Therapy is not only about talking through what feels difficult. It’s also about learning how to understand your inner experience more clearly and respond to yourself with greater awareness and grace.
Our work may include building skills to help you:
navigate stress and internal pressure
improve communication and relationships
slow reactive or self-critical patterns
feel more grounded, connected, and emotionally balanced
I pay attention not only to thoughts and behaviors, but also to your lived and felt experience — helping growth feel meaningful and sustainable.
Areas I Work With
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If you recognize patterns like persistent worry, difficulty quieting your mind, physical tension, avoidance, or a sense of dread that doesn't always have a clear source, you're not alone, and you don't have to keep managing it on your own. Anxiety is one of the most common and most misunderstood experiences people carry, often quietly and for a long time.
I don't see anxiety as a failure to cope or “just overthinking.” It frequently develops as a protective response — a nervous system doing its best to keep you safe in the face of uncertainty, past experiences, or environments where vigilance felt necessary. Understanding why anxiety shows up is often just as important as learning how to respond to it.
My approach draws on evidence-based methods including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to help you better understand anxiety and reduce its hold on your daily life. These approaches offer practical skills for calming the nervous system, building tolerance for uncertainty, and responding to challenges with greater flexibility and self-trust.
Rather than getting caught in cycles of worry, avoidance, or self-criticism, you can learn to relate to anxiety in a different way. The goal isn't to eliminate anxiety altogether, but to help you feel more capable and free to move toward the things that matter most to you.
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I value openness, curiosity, and freedom from rigid expectations about who we're supposed to be. Therapy can offer space to explore identity, self-expression, belonging, and uncertainty in a way that feels reflective and emotionally honest.
I work with adolescents, young adults, adults, parents, and families across a wide range of gender-related experiences. Some clients are struggling with gender dysphoria or questioning their identity. Others feel conflicted or uncertain, are navigating detransition, regret, grief, or the emotional impact of past medical interventions, or simply want space to better know themselves and their experiences.
My approach is compassionate and focused on the whole person — not just a diagnosis or label. I consider the many factors that can shape development and emotional well-being, including family relationships, peer dynamics, mental health, life experiences, social influences, and online environments.
When working with adolescents and young adults, I often collaborate with parents and families when appropriate.
I believe people deserve space to reflect openly on their experiences without pressure, shame, or predetermined expectations about who they should be.
Parents and families are welcome to request an initial consultation here.
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If you've been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) — or relate to intense emotions, fears of abandonment, identity struggles, relationship difficulties, or feeling emotionally overwhelmed very quickly — know that compassionate, effective support is available. While these experiences can feel painful and isolating, they are more common than many people realize, and meaningful change is possible.
I don't view emotional sensitivity or intensity as a character flaw. These patterns often develop in response to distressing experiences, chronic invalidation, trauma, or environments where emotional needs did not feel safely held or understood. Understanding the origins of these struggles can be an important part of healing, while also learning new ways to navigate emotions, relationships, and life's challenges.
My work is informed by Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), an evidence-based approach that helps people build steadier relationships and a stronger sense of self. DBT offers practical skills for managing intense emotions and responding to life's challenges with greater resilience — while honoring the depth and sensitivity you bring to the world.
Reach out to see if this approach is right for you.
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In addition to counseling, I offer supportive, body-based and lifestyle-oriented services that can complement this work for some clients, or act as a standalone service.
I currently offer chair yoga classes, private yoga sessions, small group yoga events, and health coaching programs — these are especially for people looking to reconnect with their bodies, build supportive routines, and create more balance in daily life.
My yoga work is gentle, intuitive, and grounded in nervous-system awareness. Private sessions are supportive and adaptable, often helping people experiencing stress, chronic pain, tension, or emotional overwhelm develop a more sustainable and restorative movement practice.
My health coaching programs are 30-, 60-, and 90-day structured offerings focused on personalized support, accountability, and practical guidance around habits, stress, self-care, and lifestyle changes. Coaching is not therapy, but it can be a helpful space for building consistency and creating meaningful day-to-day shifts.
At its core, this work is about cultivating a more compassionate and attuned relationship with yourself — physically, emotionally, and mentally.
Reach out if you are interested in private yoga, group classes, or health coaching programs.
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