Description
I'm autistic and have ADHD, which shapes both how I practice and who I'm drawn to work with. I came to therapy through climate science — I have a graduate degree in environment and society and spent years researching how people respond to risk.
What I kept finding was that information alone rarely changes behavior, which turned out to be exactly the right question to bring into a therapy practice.
I believe therapy should be honest about what it can and can't do. I believe neurodivergent people are not broken versions of neurotypical people. I believe climate grief is rational, not pathological. I believe chronic shame is one of the most underaddressed drivers of human suffering, and that the people most skilled at masking it are often the ones who need the most careful attention.
Outside of private practice, I train and mentor IFS practitioners through IFS Healers, an online learning community I co-founded.
Group Therapist
Many of my clients can often explain their patterns — but creating lasting change is exhausting. For neurodivergent people especially, intellectual insight can become its own way of staying safe.
Real change means you don't have to rely on willpower. It means the behavior, the feeling, or the pattern simply stops making sense to the parts of you that were running it — because those parts no longer need to. That's what we're working toward.
Using Internal Family Systems (IFS) and nervous system-informed approaches, we work beneath the analysis to what's actually driving the pattern — most often, chronic shame. Shame that says you're too much, not enough, or fundamentally unacceptable. It shows up everywhere: in burnout and masking, in the aftermath of divorce, in the creativity you can't bring yourself to share with the world.
My clients are diverse in what brings them here, but the work is usually the same — clearing the internal conditions that make the life you want feel out of reach.
