I love being a therapist.

From a young age, I was full of existential questions and pondered meaning. I have always felt a deep connection to life, nature, and relationships. I bring to this role all of the ways that life has shaped me, along with a profoundly personal and intimate understanding of grief and loss. When others ask what led me to this work, I often respond by telling them that life chose it for me.

I’ve been a therapist for over 10 years, with experience supporting clients through many of life’s most tender and complex moments.

This includes working with:

  • Bereaved parents and families

  • Grief related to the loss of a child, partner, parent, sibling, grandparent, friend, mentor—or anyone deeply loved, or with whom a meaningful or complex attachment was held.

  • Ambiguous loss and grief related to other types of losses

  • Survivors of abuse and sexual assault, PTSD, Complex trauma

  • Attachment and relationship/intimacy struggles

  • Anxiety and OCD

  • Perinatal mental health

  • Individuals and families in hospice and palliative care, including accompanying patients as they face their own deaths

It is truly a privilege to do the work that I do, and I do not take this role lightly.  

Outside of the therapy office, you can find me birding, hiking, reading, having deep conversations, laughing, crying, being awestruck, remembering, learning, traveling, skiing, and walking my dog. I also really love photography and channeling my creativity through my living space and my style.

My pup

Credentials

  • Arizona State University, Master of Social Work (MSW) with a certificate in trauma and bereavement

  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) by the AZBBHE

  • Advanced Certified Provider, Compassionate Bereavement Care ®(CBC) through the MISS Foundation and Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Trust

  • Attended multiple international seminars in Existential Analysis and Logotherapy, and currently in the process of becoming certified

  • Trained in the following types of therapy: Internal Family Systems (IFS), Person-Centered Therapy, Mindfulness-Based approaches, Grief and Trauma-Focused modalities, Existential Analysis and Logotherapy, The ATTEND model, Psychodynamic, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT), Metacognitive Therapy and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP).

  • Member of Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network (SWHPN)

My approach

I am an existential psychotherapist, with a person-centered and trauma- and grief-informed approach. I want you to feel safe and validated, while also not shying away from authenticity and responsibility. As I walk alongside you on this journey, I can help you unearth your depths while also holding space for lightness and humor.  My work is rooted in presence, curiosity, and reverence for your lived experience.
You're welcome here just as you are, with what you’ve been able to name and what you’re still learning to hold.

After working with me, clients often describe:

  • A deeper knowing and trust in themselves

  • Feeling truly seen, with empathy and without judgment

  • Greater compassion for themselves and others

  • A more integrated relationship with all parts of who they are

  • An intentional, sacred connection to their grief and trauma

  • A greater capacity to live with uncertainty, rather than resist it

  • A renewed ability to say “yes” to life again

    This is the kind of work that doesn’t just aim to help you feel better—it helps you live more fully by feeling.

“Each person is questioned by life; and they can only answer by answering for their own life.”
— Viktor Frankl