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

You don’t need to know any of them for the work to be helpful. But if you’re someone who likes understanding how things work, here are some of the approaches that inform my practice:

• Parts work (IFS-informed)
  Getting to know different parts of yourself and helping them relate to each other in more supportive ways.
  
  
• Brainspotting
  A body-based approach that can help process experiences that feel stuck or difficult to access through talking alone. You don’t have to have the right words for this to be helpful.
  
  
• Nervous system and regulation skills (DBT-informed)
  Tools that can help you feel more steady, especially during moments of overwhelm or emotional intensity.
  
  
• Relational and attachment-focused work
  Exploring how early relationships shape present patterns and building new ways of relating to yourself and others.
  
  
• Intergenerational trauma healing
  Understanding what may have been passed down through family, relationships, or culture so you have more choice in what you carry forward.
  
  
• Motivational Interviewing (MI-informed)
  Making space for the parts of you that want change and the parts that may not feel ready yet. This can be especially helpful with patterns that feel compulsive or difficult to shift.
  
  
• Working with thoughts, emotions, and patterns (CBT-informed)
  Noticing and shifting patterns in thinking and responding so life can feel different day to day.
  
  
• Somatic practices
  Working with the body and nervous system so change feels more grounded, integrated, and lasting.

Woman-identified persons often move through layered expectations about caregiving, achievement, appearance, relationships, emotional labor, and who they’re allowed to be.

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 folx who identify as women who are 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 life.

The expectations placed on mothers and caregivers can feel impossible.

To be emotionally present, responsive, organized, patient, selfless, and somehow also maintain your own identity and well-being inside it all.

There is often very little space for you inside that.

You may notice you're the one who manages, anticipates, tracks, holds things together, and carries the emotional weight for everyone around you.

There can be love in that.
And also exhaustion.

I support mothers and caregivers navigating identity shifts, caregiving burnout, changing family roles, pregnancy and postpartum experiences, and the often unacknowledged emotional labor of caring deeply for others.

Part of our work together can be reconnecting with yourself, not separate from being a parent or caregiver, but not lost inside the role either.

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

High school and early adulthood can hold a lot all at once:

• constant comparison and social pressure
• expectations from family, school, peers, or culture
• shifting friendships and relationships
• pressure to succeed or have a future plan

It can feel like you’re supposed to have things figured out while you’re still learning yourself.

Therapy can be a place where you don’t have to perform, pretend, or already know the answers.

A place to better understand yourself, make sense of what you’re feeling, and build more trust in yourself as you continue discovering who you are.

Moving through the world while navigating other people’s assumptions, expectations, projections, or misunderstandings can be exhausting.

For many LGBTQ+ folx, survival has involved learning how to stay alert, adapt, code-switch, minimize needs, or brace for rejection long before realizing that’s what you're doing.

Therapy can offer space to show up more fully without needing to explain, defend, or shrink parts of yourself to feel accepted in the room.

I work with LGBTQ+ adolescents and adults navigating identity, relationships, family dynamics, belonging, anxiety, trauma, burnout, religious harm, and the ongoing impact of environments that haven’t always felt safe.

Growing up in environments that felt unpredictable, inconsistent, emotionally unsafe, or difficult to navigate can shape how you move through the world and relationships.

You may have learned to stay alert, adapt quickly, take on more than your share, or focus outward in order to maintain connection or stability.

You might notice patterns like:

• feeling responsible for others
• difficulty trusting yourself or other people
• over-functioning or over-giving
• struggling to rest or receive support
• difficulty letting your guard down

These patterns make sense.
They developed for a reason.

What gets passed down often didn’t start with your parents or caregivers, and it didn’t start with you either.

And still, you have the opportunity to decide what you carry forward.

Many people carry more than one experience of a parent or caregiver inside them:
the one who was there, and the one they needed or longed for.

That gap can be painful.
And it can also become a place where healing begins.

Part of this work can include reconnecting with younger parts of yourself that didn’t receive what they needed earlier on, sometimes described as Inner Child healing or Reparenting.

This isn't about blaming your parents or expecting perfection. It's about recognizing that many of us didn't consistently receive the emotional support, attunement, or safety we needed, and that it's possible to begin cultivating those experiences within ourselves now.

You can learn to begin relating to yourself in ways that feel steadier, more caring, and more attuned to what you actually need.