About Me
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker providing telehealth therapy and coaching for adults navigating emotional distress, substance use concerns, and mind body symptoms.
With more than a decade of clinical experience, my background includes trauma informed care, substance use treatment, and mental health work, as well as supporting individuals with chronic mind body symptoms. I believe symptoms are not signs of something being wrong with you, but meaningful responses developed in the context of stress, experience, and survival.
I approach my work with curiosity, compassion, and respect for the ways people learn to cope and endure.
My Clinical Background
My professional background includes extensive experience supporting individuals with substance use concerns, trauma, anxiety, depression, and chronic stress. Over time, my work has increasingly focused on the connection between emotional health, the nervous system, and physical symptoms.
I am trained in a range of evidence based and experiential modalities, including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy, Pain Reprocessing Therapy, Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy, parts based approaches, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and mindfulness based practices.
Rather than applying one method to everyone, I integrate these approaches thoughtfully and flexibly, guided by each person’s nervous system, goals, and self determination.
Why I Do This Work
My approach is shaped not only by professional training, but by lived experience. For many years, my body expressed distress through chronic pain, fatigue, and other persistent physical symptoms that were often attributed to stress, without much clarity about what that meant or how to address it. Over time, these symptoms became more limiting, and my world gradually grew smaller.
Like many people, I searched for relief wherever I could find it. Some coping strategies offered temporary reprieve but did not address what was happening beneath the surface. I did not yet understand how emotional patterns, unprocessed trauma, and survival strategies were shaping my nervous system and physical experience. Over time, the pain and other symptoms eased. What emerged was not only physical relief, but a greater sense of emotional freedom and connection.
This experience informs how I show up as a clinician today, allowing me to meet clients with empathy, steadiness, and genuine hope.