The Healer

What I Believe About Healing

I believe most of us are capable of getting to a good place in life on our own. But sometimes life hands you something that makes that goal feel impossibly far away: grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, substance use, anger that doesn't know where to go. None of that means you're broken. It means you need the right tools and the right person across from you while you find them.

My approach is individualized, holistic, and strengths-based. I don't believe in a one-size-fits-all model of healing, because no two people get to their struggles the same way, and no two people will get out of them the same way either. What I aim to build with every client is a space that's safe and respectful, but not so comfortable that nothing changes. Growth happens in that in-between space, and my job is to help you find it.

"Social work is not about helping people from the outside in; it's about empowering people from the inside out."

The Tools I Reach For

I'm trained across several evidence-based modalities, and I move between them depending on what's actually in front of me:

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) & Behavioral Activation — helping clients recognize unhealthy thinking patterns, replace them with more adaptive ones, and build behavioral goals they can actually work toward.
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) — pulling practical skills from DBT's core modules to help with emotional regulation and reducing behaviors that aren't serving someone well.
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) — helping clients accept their thoughts and feelings without judgment, then build values-based goals instead of chasing the elimination of symptoms.
• Motivational Interviewing (MI) — meeting ambivalence where it lives. Change that comes from within a client always sticks better than change pushed from the outside.
• Solution-Focused & Strengths-Based approaches — because most people already have more capability than they're giving themselves credit for.
• Harm Reduction — meeting people where they actually are, not where a textbook says they should be.

Settings & Specialties

Over the past decade-plus, I've practiced across a genuinely wide range of settings, and worked with adults across the lifespan.

I specialize in anxiety, depression, mood disorders, substance use, grief and loss, and perinatal mental health.