Life feels heavy when you’re always trying harder but still falling behind. You want to be loving and dependable, but you struggle to feel motivated, lose track of time, or get overwhelmed and shut down. You learned early to handle things on your own and not ask for much. Now small rejections can spiral into hours of worry. You've been called lazy or too sensitive. On the outside, you seem fine, while inside, you feel scattered and anxious that being too much will push people away. You're ready for life to feel more manageable and less overwhelming. You want to follow through without burnout, stop people pleasing, and learn to trust your decisions. You want relationships that feel supportive instead of draining. If you're tired of carrying it all alone, I'm here to help you! I work with neurodivergent teens and adults in Washington and Arizona using a trauma-informed approach that goes beyond skills and into the deeper work of healing. We'll explore where your patterns come from, build systems that actually fit your brain, and develop ways of relating to yourself that don't leave you exhausted. Clients often describe feeling lighter and like they finally have a path forward. Reach out to schedule your free 15-minute consult today!

I approach this work as a sacred, transformational journey of helping you embody your medicine, the unique presence and purpose you bring to the world. Your medicine offers the power to heal, nurture well-being, and embrace courageous wholeness. Dancing with all that obscures and blocks your true heart and spirit is a beautiful, challenging adventure of tapping into deep compassion, fierce love, and radical acceptance of yours and others authentic selves. A journey I invite you to take and am honored to support. I bridge the worlds of shamanic healing, contemporary psychotherapy, and life coaching. The blending of these modalities engages the invisible energies, the non-ordinary realities (however we each individually perceive these forces), and the physical world experiences and choices influencing our wellbeing. For more than 3 decades I have supported mine and others' journeys of healing, personal mastery, and authenticity through shamanic practice with deep integrity, compassion, fortitude, and intuition.

I offer psychotherapy and counseling to individuals and groups for healing trauma and healthy transition along the lifespan. I believe that release of blocked energy transforms emotional experience and becomes a path to authentic personal and spiritual relationship. Therapy is essentially about moving energy. For example, coping skills may be developed in childhood to survive family of origin and cultural projection, and then as we age, pain results from using skills which no longer work and continue to mask the authentic self. Therapy may be about developing trust, self-forgiveness, and new coping skills while keeping parts of the original coping skill that still work. I may use systems, cognitive, developmental, psychodynamic, family-of-origin, BRAINSPOTTING CERTIFIED, EMDR CERTIFIED, EFT Tapping therapy modalities. Therapy is based on individual need, and so may include exploring conflict resolution as well as focusing and self-esteem skills. Developer of concept Chronic Loss Syndrome (non-death loss). Secure video telemedicine. Edmonds, Washington State

I am honored to provide psychotherapy for individuals and groups regarding life issues: work, aging, health, finances, and relationships. I work with people living with ongoing loss, such as aging, adoption, chronic illness, medical diagnoses, micro and macro aggressions, forced estrangement, or caregiving for a family member. Coping skills are formed early to survive the family-of-origin, which is a microcosm of the culture. As we age, these skills may become less adaptive, causing pain. Living authentically involves changing ways of coping with life-enhancing skills and building resilience through healing attachment issues and trauma.

I use a psychodynamic, relational approach to therapy. This means I'm interested in helping you safely examine the ways in which your early experiences may be shaping your emotions, worldviews and relationship patterns. I'm committed to creating a secure therapeutic connection with you. I believe our connection can serve as a crucible for your healing and transformation. Within the safety of our relationship, I can assist you with exploring and understanding your inner feelings and needs, while helping you link new insights with effective self-care skills. Depending on your inclinations, we may focus on a single, specific challenge, or we might explore your circumstances more broadly. My primary interest is in your holistic healing and growth, and I consider it an honor to be a part of such a personal and transformational process.

Functioning isn't the same as fulfilled. From the outside, your life probably looks fine — maybe even impressive. But somewhere along the way, holding it together became the only way you knew how to be, and you're tired. Strategies like overthinking, overextending, and pushing through made sense once. They kept you safe, connected, or helped you succeed. But now the part of you that learned to be fine is overriding the part of you that actually wants to be known. I work with clients who can see their patterns but still feel stuck.

I am a psychotherapist in the Ballard area. I work primarily with adults in individual therapy. My approach is based on relational therapy and attachment-based, psychodynamic, and trauma-informed theories. You may long to be accepted as you are—fully, without judgment or restriction—and to feel truly seen, heard, and understood. Maybe you’ve noticed old relational patterns, shaped in childhood, repeating in your adult life, leaving you feeling disconnected, anxious, or stuck. You may want healing from wounds formed in past relationships and a new way of relating to yourself and others. You want to feel more genuine, confident, and free to live the life you truly desire. I hold a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. My approach is grounded in Relational therapy and supported by psychodynamic, attachment-based, and trauma-informed theories. If our wounds are formed in relationships, they can be healed within them. Together, we’ll explore your story with compassion, uncover patterns, and begin healing what has kept you from the life you want. I provide telehealth sessions only.

If you’ve experienced relational trauma, emotional absence, or the long-term effects of developmental wounds, you may feel stuck in patterns that leave you anxious, disconnected, or unsure of how to relate to yourself or others. You might also be navigating substance use or recovery and seeking a deeper understanding of what drives your choices and reactions. I provide a steady, compassionate, and nonjudgmental space where your experiences are seen, heard, and honored. Together, we explore the patterns that shape your emotions, relationships, and sense of self. My work is relational, trauma-informed, and somatic, helping you notice how your nervous system and early experiences impact your present life. Sessions are paced to your needs, giving you the space to process, reflect, and experiment with new ways of relating. I partner with you to uncover insights, support emotional regulation, and repair relational wounds, so you can feel more grounded, connected, and whole. Healing is not rushed—it unfolds in the presence of curiosity, attunement, and steady care, and I walk alongside you throughout that process.

I am a clinical psychologist in private practice. I work with adults who seek help for relationship concerns, depression, anxiety, attention deficits, substance useabuse, traumas big and small, and many other questions that come up in daily life. An open and honest dialogue is possible in an atmosphere of listening and thinking. Our sessions are private and confidential. Talking things out is the first and easiest ways to identify the root causes of many problems. Thinking things through is like putting together a puzzle. You might already know what the final picture will be and getting there is a very fruitful journey.

There are a number of reasons people choose to seek out therapy: grief and loss, an unexpected crisis, or a difficult life transition just to name a few. Whatever your reason for seeking out therapy, my goal is to create a safe, supportive space for you to gain a fresh perspective, explore paths out of "stuckness," and build hope that change is possible. My approach involves providing support and challenging individuals and families to explore their thoughts, feelings, and behavior to make lasting, meaningful changes. I have additional training in Medical Family Therapy and am passionate about helping individuals and families navigate the complex road of chronic and acute physical health conditions.

The focus of my practice is to help adults who have experienced childhood sexual abuse as well as more recent sexual assault, as well as other developmental traumas. My work also often focuses on family of origin conflict and present boundary setting in all areas of one's life. In treatment, I begin with psychoeducation, feeling identification, exploration of interpersonal patterns, and stress-reduction skills before gently helping the client explore their trauma narrative. Email is the best way to contact me initially; After we connect, I am happy to talk in more detail over the phone about my practice and whether I would be a good fit for you before making an appointment.