Beginning therapy is a meaningful step.

This page answers many of the practical questions people have before scheduling a consultation, so you can move forward with greater clarity and confidence.

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A Thoughtful, Integrative Approach to Healing

My approach to therapy is integrative, which means we can draw from different ways of working depending on what feels most useful to you. Everything we do is collaborative and grounded in your needs, goals, and well-being.

Additional Approaches

  • Reiki is an energy-based practice that may be incorporated into therapy to support relaxation, embodiment, and greater awareness of your internal experience.

    Because sessions are virtual, Reiki is offered remotely and may be paired with mindfulness, breath awareness, or simply noticing what you experience in your body. The intention isn't to create a particular experience, but to offer another way of slowing down, listening inward, and connecting with yourself.

    Reiki is always optional and guided by your comfort and consent. You can begin, pause, or stop at any time. If something feels overwhelming or activating, we return to grounding, regulation, and therapeutic processing.

    Individual experiences vary, and specific outcomes cannot be guaranteed.

  • Intuition Development and Expression is about learning to recognize and trust your own internal cues.

    We may explore the difference between intuition, fear, anxiety, protective responses, and outside expectations—especially if you've spent years questioning yourself or looking to others for reassurance.

    As a spiritual intuitive and medium, I may also receive intuitive impressions or “downloads” during our work together. When appropriate, I may offer what comes through as something for us to explore—not as fact or something you need to believe. You are always invited to notice what resonates, what doesn't, and what feels meaningful to you.

    This work doesn't ask you to abandon logic or reasoning. Instead, we make more room for reflection and intuition so you can develop greater discernment, make decisions with more confidence, and strengthen trust in yourself.

    You are always in control of how much spirituality or intuition becomes part of our work.

  • Breathwork and intuitive movement are somatic practices that may be incorporated into therapy to support nervous system regulation, emotional awareness, embodiment, and connection with yourself.

    Breathwork may involve slowing down and noticing your breathing, experimenting with intentional breathing practices, or observing what changes in your body as we work together.

    Intuitive movement invites you to notice what your body wants or needs—perhaps stretching, shifting position, grounding through your feet, moving gently, or simply becoming aware of an impulse without needing to act on it.

    There is no right way to do either practice. We move at your pace, and everything is collaborative and optional. These practices are integrated into the broader therapeutic process rather than used as a replacement for psychotherapy.

    The goal is greater awareness and choice: noticing what's happening inside you and developing more ways to respond to yourself with curiosity, regulation, and ease.

A Space to Be Real, Not Perfect

Therapy is a space where you can be real, not perfect.

We slow things down, stay curious about what matters most to you, and honor your autonomy in the healing process. I offer a steady, nonjudgmental presence as you explore your inner world and make meaning of your experiences in a way that feels authentic and aligned.

Frequently Asked Questions

If your question isn't answered here, I'm always happy to talk through it during a free consultation.

  • I work with sensitive, introspective adults navigating trauma, anxiety, grief, burnout, relationship patterns, identity shifts, and major life transitions. Many of my clients have spent years holding space for others while quietly carrying their own pain.

    You don't need to have a diagnosis or a perfectly defined problem to begin therapy.

  • My approach is trauma-informed, relational, somatic, and depth-oriented. Rather than focusing only on symptoms, we get curious about the emotions, relationships, nervous system responses, and protective patterns underneath them.

    Healing begins with understanding—not fixing.

  • There isn't one formula for a session. We may talk through something happening in your life, notice what is happening in your body, explore a relationship pattern, slow down around an emotion, or make space for something you haven't had words for yet.

    The work unfolds collaboratively and at a pace that feels manageable.

  • No. Sometimes people come to therapy knowing exactly what they want to work on. Other times, they simply know that something doesn't feel right anymore.

    You don't have to have everything figured out before you begin. Part of therapy can be discovering what needs your attention.

    Often, the desire to better understand yourself is reason enough to begin.

  • The relationship you have with your therapist matters. You should feel that you can be honest, ask questions, disagree, move slowly, and show up as yourself.

    I offer a free consultation so we can talk about what is bringing you to therapy and get a sense of whether working together feels right.

    You deserve a therapist with whom you feel safe, understood, and able to be yourself.

  • Understanding a pattern and being able to respond differently are not always the same thing.

    You may intellectually understand why you people-please, shut down, overthink, or take care of everyone else and still find yourself doing it. Therapy can help us explore what happens underneath the pattern—including the emotions, relationships, and nervous system responses that keep it in place.

  • For many people, putting others first isn't simply a habit. It may have developed as a way of maintaining connection, avoiding conflict, feeling needed, or staying emotionally safe.

    Rather than judging the pattern, we can become curious about what it has been doing for you—and whether you still need it in the same way.

  • You don't have to be falling apart for therapy to be meaningful.

    Many of the people I work with are capable, thoughtful, and accustomed to overfunctioning even when they're overwhelmed internally. Therapy can offer a place where you don't have to keep performing "fine" and can begin listening to what is happening underneath.

  • Yes. Self-trust is often an important part of the work I do.

    If you've spent years questioning yourself, looking outside yourself for reassurance, or overriding your own needs to avoid disappointing others, it can become difficult to know what you actually think, feel, or want.

    Therapy can help you begin listening inward and recognizing your own internal cues again.

  • No. You are in control of what you share and when you share it.

    Trauma-informed therapy doesn't mean repeatedly telling the story of what happened to you. Often, we begin by creating safety, understanding your current patterns, and building your capacity to stay connected to yourself before approaching more difficult experiences.

  • Somatic therapy includes awareness of what is happening in the body alongside thoughts and emotions.

    We might notice your breathing, tension, sensations, impulses, or shifts in your nervous system. The goal isn't to analyze every sensation, but to develop greater awareness of how your body communicates with you and what helps you feel more grounded and connected to yourself.

  • Yes, when spirituality is meaningful to you.

    There is room in therapy to explore intuition, spiritual experiences, meaning, existential questions, or changes in your beliefs without assuming that spirituality needs to be part of the work.

    Your beliefs are yours. My role is to help you explore them with curiosity and discernment.

  • Not at all.

    Some clients want spirituality to be part of therapy, while others don't. You don't need to hold any particular spiritual or religious beliefs to work with me.

    You are in control.

  • When appropriate and specifically discussed together, complementary practices such as Reiki, breathwork, intuitive movement, or intuition-focused exploration may be incorporated into our work.

    These practices are optional and are not required to work with me. Psychotherapy remains grounded in your therapeutic goals, needs, and consent.

  • Depth Intensives are longer therapy sessions that create more time to stay with an experience without having to stop at the 53-minute mark.

    They can be helpful when you want dedicated space to explore a particular pattern, transition, relationship, loss, or experience more deeply.

  • Yes. Virtual therapy can still be relational, embodied, and deeply meaningful.

    Meeting from your own space can also make it easier to notice what is happening in your everyday environment and practice grounding, boundaries, and nervous system awareness where you actually live.

    I provide virtual therapy to adults in California and Washington.

  • We will talk—but we won't necessarily stop there.

    I pay attention to the story you're telling as well as what happens underneath it: emotions, body sensations, protective responses, relationship patterns, moments of uncertainty, and the places where you may override yourself.

    The goal isn't to become someone different. It's to understand yourself more deeply, develop greater choice, and feel more able to trust yourself and your intuition.