“Why did you become a therapist?”

The honest answer is that my path began with my own need for healing. I did not start with a polished career plan. I started as someone trying to understand pain, anxiety, shame, dissociation, and the feeling that I had to figure everything out alone.

Over time, through my own therapy, education, training, mentorship, and life experience, I came to understand something important: healing is not something we are meant to do alone. I was helped by therapists, teachers, friends, mentors, and many people who offered compassion and wisdom at the right moments. Being a therapist is one way I try to honor that.

I share this not to make therapy about me, but because I want you to know that my work is not only academic or clinical. I know what it is like to sit in the client’s chair. I know how vulnerable it can feel to open up, how frustrating the pace of healing can be, and how much courage it can take to look honestly at the places we would rather avoid.

I also know that change is possible.

There can be moments when something finally clicks, when an old memory loses its grip, when the body softens, when self-understanding becomes self-compassion, and when life starts to feel less like something to survive and more like something you can inhabit.

I am not perfect, and I do not pretend to be. But I bring real training, deep attention, lived understanding, and a steady respect for the complexity of healing. My hope is that, if we work together, you will feel met with honesty, care, and the sense that you do not have to navigate this alone.