I'm a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a graduate of Northwestern University's Master's in Counseling program. I work with a wide range of concerns and specialize in fertility, perinatal, and early parenthood issues, as well as toxic and abusive relationships, including narcissistic abuse. I believe deeply in the power of building meaningful connections, both with yourself and with others, and I draw on my lived experience and clinical training to support clients in finding healing, contentment, and purpose.

My approach is integrative and relational, blending Psychodynamic Theory, CBT, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method, and Relational Life Therapy (RLT). I have completed Gottman Levels I and II, am an approved Gottman Connect provider, and use the research-based Gottman Relationship Checkup with couples.

Three words I would use to describe myself as a therapist: relational, empathetic, and cycle-breaking. That last one matters a lot to me. So much of the work I do is about helping people recognize and shift the patterns that have been quietly running the show.

I work best with clients who are curious enough to look under the hood. Not people looking for a passive listener, but people who could benefit from working with a collaborator who will hold a mirror up to their patterns while also providing the warmth of a secure connection. I want clients to feel three things in our work together: safe, because no one can be truly vulnerable without that; seen, because real connection only exists when someone feels genuinely recognized; and challenged, because that is often where the growth actually happens.

Outside of sessions, a current small joy is hearing my daughter ask for blueblies instead of blueberries. It makes me giggle every time. It is also one of those sweet, tiny reminders that nothing, the good or the hard, is permanent. So I am doing my best to soak up the blueblies stage while it is here, knowing that with parenting, like so many other things, everything is just a season.