WHO I AM WHEN I’M NOT YOUR THERAPIST
I think therapy should feel a little more human.
Therapy is weird.
Hi, I just met you. Now give me all the stuff you'd rather cram into a closet and pretend isn't there. So it's only fair that you get to know a little about me, too.
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I’ve kind of always been the therapist.
I was the sensitive one. The curious one. The one who noticed things and wanted to know why people felt the way they did. I was an old soul before I even knew what that meant.
Honestly, I don't think I could have picked another profession. It feels a little more like this profession picked me.
Then I had a really good therapist.
She helped me see myself more clearly. Recognize my strengths. Notice patterns I was too close to see for myself. She asked good questions and helped me understand myself in a way I hadn't before.
That experience changed how I understood support, and eventually, it led me here.
More than a decade later, I still really love this work. I love getting to know people. I love the unexpected turns. And I really love those moments when something finally clicks.
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I've always been curious about people. Why we do what we do. The patterns we get stuck in. The things we can't always see when we're too close to them.
Getting my own ADHD diagnosis made me even more curious about all of that. It gave me a whole new perspective on things I'd always assumed were just part of who I was.
Over the years I've also found myself working with a lot of women struggling in their marriages and relationships. I didn't set out to specialize in this. These women just... kept finding me.
Somewhere along the way it became some of the most meaningful work I do. I love meeting women in the messy middle and being the person they can finally tell, "I've never told anyone this before."
To be trusted with that part of someone's story and know they'll be met with understanding and not judgment is one of my greatest honors.
My faith is part of my story, too. It shapes how I understand relationships, marriage, forgiveness, and the possibility of change. You don't have to leave your faith at the door, and you don't have to share mine for us to do meaningful work together.
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I'm creative. It's just how I'm wired. I'm an Enneagram 4, if you're into that sort of thing, and the way things look and feel matters to me probably more than it should. It's not just about aesthetics. I'm someone who really feels my surroundings. Although I’m still learning that not everything needs to look exactly how I pictured it. Figuratively or quite literally.
I love decorating and dreaming up spaces. I love playing mahjong. I love cooking and finding a new recipe to obsess over. I drink tea over coffee. I know, I know, don't come for me.
I'm also a mom and a wife. Raising a neurodivergent family has taught me a lot about flexibility and adjusting expectations. Sometimes the way you thought something was going to work just... isn't.
Life at our house is real. It's loud and messy and funny and sometimes completely chaotic. I'm still working on getting comfortable with that.
Hi, ADHD in your 30s.
BRING ME YOUR STORY
The work often starts when something you thought you understood changes.
I often work with women who are used to having the answers. They're the problem-solvers, the ones who make a plan, find a solution, and figure it out.
But what happens when the answers don't come? When the strategies that have always worked suddenly don't, when you find yourself freezing instead of moving forward, or when the person looking back at you in the mirror feels unfamiliar?
Sometimes ADHD or neurodivergence brings a new understanding of yourself. Sometimes motherhood, betrayal, or a relationship rupture changes how you see yourself, your relationships, and the life you've built.
You can't always think your way through something you haven't learned how to understand yet.
You don't have to arrive knowing exactly what needs to change. We can start with the part you can't quite make sense of yet.
A WORD FROM ME:
Different is my super power
It's surprisingly easy to get caught up in the what-ifs. What if I were more like them? What if I'd made different choices? What if I could just do things the way everyone else seems to?
But there's something freeing about stepping out of that comparison and learning to work with who you actually are. Your differences aren't automatically deficits. The very things you've spent years trying to change may also be where some of your greatest strengths live.
That's the perspective I bring to my work. I'm not interested in helping you become a more acceptable version of yourself. I'm interested in helping you understand yourself well enough to stop measuring your life against someone else's and start building one that actually feels like yours.
HOW I SHOW UP IN THE ROOM
Real conversations. No performance required
01 HONEST
We can say the thing out loud.
The resentment you're embarrassed to admit. The thought you aren't sure you're allowed to have. You don't have to make it sound better for me.
02 CURIOUS
We’re going to get underneath it
I'm interested in more than what happened. I want to understand why it matters, what it brought up, and what it means to you. Sometimes the most useful question is the one you didn’t know you needed to ask.
03 COLLABORATIVE
I’m beside you, not ahead of you
I bring clinical perspective, ask hard questions, and share what I notice. But I'm not here to decide what your life should look like. We figure it out together.
04 HUMAN
You don’t have to clean it up before you bring it here.
I'm a real person, and therapy is a relationship. There is room for humor, uncomfortable truths, strong feelings, and moments when we need to sit with something difficult.
READY WHEN YOU’RE READY
You don't have to figure it out alone.
BEFORE YOU DECIDE IF I'M YOUR THERAPIST
A few things you might want to know:
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I began working with clients in 2014 as a student intern and became a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in 2016. For more than a decade, I’ve worked primarily with adults and women navigating anxiety, relationships, major life changes, ADHD, and neurodivergence.
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Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida
Master of Arts in Counseling
Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando — 2016Bachelor of Arts & Science in Human Development & Family Studies
Auburn University — 2012 -
My path to becoming a counselor was deeply shaped by my own experience in therapy. Having someone walk alongside me was genuinely transformational, and it made me want to offer that same kind of support to other people.
I’ve always been curious about people — how we think, what shapes us, and why we make the choices we do. That curiosity eventually became a career I genuinely love.
I believe people make sense. Even the things that feel confusing, frustrating, or out of character usually have a reason behind them. Sometimes we just need the space, curiosity, and support to figure out what that reason is.
My clinical term? Fine is crap.
Not technically a clinical term. But I say it a lot.
Nobody wants to live in “fine.” And when someone tells me they’re fine but something clearly isn’t sitting right, I want to get curious about what’s underneath it.
That’s what I love about this work. Getting underneath the “I’m fine,” making sense of what’s actually happening, and helping someone understand herself a little more clearly.