The therapist who looks for the root.

I've been a therapist for more than four years — but the truth is, my real training started long before that. Before I ever sat across from a client in this room, I worked as a social worker in K–12 schools, in hospitals, on a kidney transplant team, and within the VA. That range matters. It means I've sat with people at the hardest moments of their lives, from every walk of life, long before "therapist" was the word on my door.

In my own words: "My background in social work at a K–12 school system, hospital, and local kidney transplant team have also prepared me to work and engage with people from all walks of life." Each of those settings taught me something different about how people carry pain — and how they heal.

I'm also a military wife. I know the world of service from the inside — the deployments, the homecomings, the quiet weight families carry. So when a veteran, an active-duty service member, or a first responder's family sits down with me, they don't have to translate. They don't have to explain what the job costs. I already understand a lot of it.

Mostly, I work with adults — usually 26 and up — and with couples. Trauma is my focus, especially the kind that's been minimized, buried, or mistaken for something else. Childhood trauma, adult trauma, military trauma — that's the work I do most, and the work I care about most.