Therapy

Women and womxn often move through layered expectations about caregiving, achievement, appearance, relationships, emotional labor, and who they’re allowed to be.

Over time, it can become difficult to tell the difference between what’s truly yours and what you’ve learned to carry for others.

Therapy can offer space to reconnect with yourself beneath those pressures and patterns, and to build a way of moving through life that feels more grounded, honest, and sustainable.

I work with women and womxn navigating stress, burnout, relationship challenges, identity shifts, trauma, life transitions, caregiving, grief, self-worth, and the ongoing impact of systems and environments that shape daily experience.

The expectations of motherhood can feel impossible.

To be present, patient, selfless, regulated, and somehow also maintain your own identity and well-being.

There is often very little space for YOU inside that.

If you’re a mom, you may have found yourself slowly disappearing into the role.
Becoming the one who manages, tracks, anticipates, and holds everything together.

There can be love in that.
And also exhaustion.

Many moms are in relationships or environments where they are expected to give care, but are not consistently supported, replenished, or given care in return by other adults in their lives.

Over time, this becomes unsustainable.

These expectations are not random.
They come from larger patterns in how care is expected and distributed, and they can be unlearned and reshaped over time.

Part of our work can be reconnecting with yourself, not separate from being a mom, but not lost inside it either.

Growing up can be one of the hardest things we go through, especially in the world we’re navigating right now.

In high school, you’re holding a lot at once.

And that doesn’t necessarily get easier as you move into early adulthood.

Figuring out who you are while also dealing with:

• pressure to perform or succeed
• shifting social dynamics
• expectations from family, school, peers, and romantic relationships
• constant comparison, especially through social media

It can feel like you’re supposed to have things figured out while you’re still becoming who you are.

Therapy can be a place where you don’t have to perform or pretend.
A place to make sense of what you’re feeling and begin to trust yourself.

Did you grow up in an unpredictable or emotionally complex environment?

Growing up in an environment where things felt inconsistent, unpredictable, or emotionally complex can shape how you move through the world.

You may have learned to stay alert, adapt quickly, or take on more than your share.

You might notice patterns like:

• feeling responsible for others
• difficulty trusting yourself or others
• over-functioning or over-giving
• struggling to rest, receive, or let your guard down

These patterns make sense.
They developed for a reason.

What was passed down didn’t start with you, or even with them.
And you have a say in what continues and what shifts.

Many of us carry more than one experience of a parent or caregiver inside us.
The one who was there, and the one we needed or longed for.

That gap can be painful.
And it can also be a place where understanding and healing begin.

This work can include reconnecting with parts of yourself that didn’t get what they needed earlier on, sometimes described as Inner Child healing.

You can begin to relate to yourself in ways that feel more steady, more caring, and more attuned to what you actually need.

Over time, this can change how you experience relationships, boundaries, and your sense of self.

There are many different ways to “do” therapy, and sometimes you’ll hear names for these approaches.

Although you don’t need to know them for the work to be effective, if you’re someone who likes to understand how things work, here are some of the approaches I draw from:

• Parts work (IFS-informed)
  We get to know different parts of you and help them work together in a more supportive way.
  
  
• Brainspotting
  A body-based approach that helps process experiences that feel stuck or hard to access through talking alone. You don’t even have to talk for this to be helpful.
  
  
• Nervous system and regulation skills (DBT-informed)
  Tools to help you feel more steady, especially in moments of overwhelm. 
  
  
• Relational and attachment-focused work
  Understanding how early relationships shape current patterns and building new ways of connecting.
  
  
• Intergenerational trauma healing
  Exploring what may have been passed down so you have more choice in what you carry forward.
  
  
• Motivational Interviewing (MI-informed)
  Acknowledging that there are parts of you that want change and parts that may not be ready. This can be especially helpful with patterns that feel compulsive or hard to change, including substances, eating patterns, relationship dynamics, or other forms of coping.
  
  
• Working with thoughts and patterns (CBT-informed)
  Ways to notice and shift how you think and respond so things can feel different in your day-to-day life.
  
  
• Somatic practices
  Working with the body so change feels more grounded and lasting.