Meet Our Team

For the past ten years, I've worked as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in trauma.

At the heart of my work is helping people identify and break the patterns that keep them stuck — in their lifestyle, in their relationships, and in the way they respond to stress, so they can build ones that actually serve them. This applies broadly, whether someone is working through relationship conflict, anxiety, life transitions, or something more specific.

Increasingly, my focus has extended to the place where trauma, chronic stress, and physical health intersect.

Mental and physical health are not separate systems. They are in constant feedback with one another, and the brain plays a far larger role in chronic pain and chronic illness than most people realize: how we think about our bodies, and what we believe about our symptoms, can directly shape how those symptoms persist or resolve.

I work extensively with clients experiencing chronic pain and unexplained chronic illness — conditions that have often been through the medical system without a clear diagnosis or lasting relief.

My approach is holistic and systemic, and it prioritizes active change in patterns and lifestyle over insight alone. Rather than only talking about symptoms, we work to identify and shift the underlying patterns (nervous system, behavioral, relational) that keep them in place.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a central part of this work. I use it not just for classic trauma processing, but as a tool to trace unexplained physical symptoms back to their root: often chronic stress or unresolved trauma stored in the body. Getting to that root cause, rather than managing symptoms indirectly, is usually where lasting change becomes possible.

I'm currently in my second year of a four-year training program in homeopathy, which I'm integrating into my clinical perspective as another lens on treating the whole person — mind and body together, not as separate problems to be solved separately.

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