I work with adolescents (12+) and adults across the lifespan. I specialize in working with clients who have experienced developmental and complex trauma, including early attachment wounding and experiences of harm or neglect within relationships during childhood, adolescence, or young adulthood.

I work with clients who are living with the lasting impact of developmental and complex trauma, including dissociative responses/adaptations, anxiety, depression, memory loss, chronic shame, perfectionism, attachment and relationship challenges, complicated grief and loss, or altered realities and non-ordinary states, including psychosis. I work with individuals across the spectrum of dissociation, including clients who identify as a dissociative system or as having dissociative identities, also known as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and Other Specified Dissociative Disorder (OSDD). I support functional multiplicity and co-consciousness perspectives and honor each individual’s path to healing with DID/OSDD.

I began my professional journey in 2014 while serving the unhoused community in Nashville, where I was drawn to the reciprocal nature of healing through human connection, service, and community building. Since then, my work has spanned a range of settings, including a psychiatric emergency department, inpatient psychiatric care, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs, grassroots homelessness relief, and an outpatient program providing trauma-focused therapy and family services for individuals experiencing first-episode psychosis.

My approach to therapy is eclectic, integrative, non-pathologizing, and grounded in relational and evidence-based practices. I tend to be an active therapist while honoring your voice and inviting your “inner healer” to guide the therapy process. At the core of my approach is collaboration—we focus together on your goals and what feels most meaningful for you. My aim is to support you in developing inner resources that foster greater satisfaction in life and help you gently shift patterns that may be keeping you from where you want to be.

I use a neurodiversity-affirming framework, meaning we work toward acknowledging and respecting your unique needs and differences while also addressing challenges you may experience living in a neurotypical-centric world. I often incorporate creativity and curiosity in a collaborative—and sometimes playful—approach to support clients in being themselves more fully.

I am formally trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). I also draw from other modalities including expressive arts, somatic approaches, attachment-based interventions, and parts work models including Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Structural Dissociation Model to support your unique path toward growth. I am in the process of completing the Advanced Certificate in Dissociation Studies for EMDR Therapists and have extensive training and experience in adapting therapies, including EMDR, as a healing tool for clients with complex trauma and dissociation.

I use an individualized phase-oriented approach to trauma therapy to first support grounding and safety to help you better understand the “why” behind distressing feelings and behaviors while learning practical strategies for managing them. When you feel ready, we may begin incorporating trauma processing therapies during the second phase, which is all about finding the right pace of processing for you to allow traumatic experiences to be truly reprocessed and transformed rather than re-lived. This is followed by an ongoing phase of resolution and reconnection as you weave new insights, capacities, and ways of relating into your life beyond therapy.

I hold a deep belief that everyone deserves a safe, affirming space to be fully themselves.

My work is grounded in values of social justice, community, and compassion, and I bring an anti-oppressive lens to therapy. This means I pay attention to not only your individual story, but also to the larger systems, identities, and relationships that impact you.

I am racial justice–allied and committed to doing the ongoing work of decolonizing my therapy practice. I welcome and celebrate folks of all racial and cultural backgrounds, gender identities, sexual orientations, and relationship styles.

I view therapy as a collaborative, human-centered process—one where your voice is heard and we work together in ways that honor what feels most important to you. My hope is to create a space where you feel respected, understood, and supported as you move toward growth and healing in your own way.

While parts of my identity are rooted in my work as a therapist, I am also inspired by creativity, learning, and connection with nature. I have a long-standing fondness of the arts and see creativity as an important part of life and as a tool for expression, reflection, and self-discovery, both within and beyond therapy. Having grown up exploring the Appalachian Mountains, I developed an early appreciation and connection with nature. I often integrate both expressive arts and nature-based interventions in therapy with clients who resonate with these approaches. In my free time, you can find me making art, knitting, spending time in nature, and cooking with my loved ones.