I offer a compassion-focused, strengths-based approach at the foundation of my work, supporting anxiety, stress, and navigating life transitions using methods tailored to your unique needs.

I often utilize techniques from the following evidence-based therapy modalities:

• Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy

• Compassion-Focused Therapy

• Self-Compassion and Mindfulness

• Person-Centered Therapy

• Strengths-Based Therapy

• Elements of CBT, ACT, DBT Skills, Adapted for Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice

Anxiety and worry often have their roots in lived experience, and I honor that history in my approach while helping you with the present moment. Sometimes by tracing back present challenges to earlier experiences, magnifying and multiplying and domino-effecting with time, we can rework those stories to work towards your strengths.

Anxiety can also have deep roots in differences in our nervous systems, especially for Highly Sensitive People and Autistic/ADHD folks, who have had to navigate environments completely mismatched to their social and sensory needs (e.g., expectation to mask in social environments, being exposed to loud, chaotic, overwhelming classrooms and workplaces for many years).

Anxiety and stress can often benefit from extra support, as these can have a heavy impact on our lives short-term and long-term. Working through anxiety and stress in a safe, nonjudgmental space can make a big difference.

Stress often refers to our emotional and physical response to present moment challenges, and may fade when the situation is resolved and we are able to take action. Anxiety often refers to more persistent tension, dread, or “what if” thoughts, especially with negative predictions and future possibilities, and anxiety/stress can be very much linked together.

Chronic stress refers to those ongoing pressures that keep going and may not stop, such as work/school demands, major life changes and transitions, parenting and caregiving responsibilities. Chronic stress could also stem from ongoing exposure to overwhelming sensory environments (e.g., too loud, too bright, too chaotic, or even the opposite).

Social anxiety is common for neurodivergent folks, and for many, this comes from a real place of having been misunderstood, not fitting in or feeling a sense of belonging, or being rejected. Especially if you’re an HSP and/or Autistic/ADHD, it can be painful to sense real differences and biases in social environments, and then sometimes get invalidating, dismissive (even if maybe well-meaning) feedback.

Sometimes negatives experiences from the past do make their way into the present, and it can be hard to navigate social anxiety when there may be a big part of you that wants to protect yourself from getting hurt again.

The story behind the anxiety matters; and we can work together to honor that story and build genuine, deep connections and move through life in spite of those hurtful experiences.

I am happy to help support you with many challenges related to anxiety, stress, adjustment, and life changes and transitions, such as with social situations, work, school (e.g., college, graduate school), moving, job/career changes, relationships and friendship issues, rejection sensitivity (including rejection sensitive dysphoria, or RSD), existential issues, caregiving, sensory overwhelm, changes to routine and life structure, generalized anxiety, fears of death/dying, health/illness anxiety, adjustment disorder, panic attacks, panic disorder, and Skin-Picking (Dermatillomania, Excoriation Disorder), and Hair-Pulling (Trichotillomania), Nail-Biting*

*Note: technically, these are body-focused repetitive behaviors classified as obsessive compulsive related disorders; however, these highly overlap with anxiety and stress)