You don't have to figure yourself out alone.
Experience a deeply human therapy space where you don’t have to perform.
How I Work
❋ collaborative We'll find what works for you and what doesn't. You'll often hear me ask questions like, "Would you like to camp out here, or pivot?" I trust both our judgments on how to get to the heart of it all. You'll have choice in how we pace the work.
❋ transparent & direct When I ask people what they wish they had more of, they often reference their past therapy experiences not being challenging enough. For me, this translates into an approach that's warm but direct and transparent. I'll often name what I’m experiencing between us: "I'm getting the sense that..." rather than sitting on an observation. If I expect transparency from my clients, I must be willing to offer it myself.
❋ Contextual & diagnostic People don't exist outside the world that shaped them, period. I'm always considering systemic roots, power, and identity contexts that are intertwined in individual work. If we’re examining the possibility of any diagnosis, we are also examining contextual factors. The world leaves its mark on us in the same way we leave our mark on it.
❋ Literary & somatic Language and word choices hold meaning. You'll often hear me ask questions like "What does that mean to you?" Often, our word choices lead us down the paths we most need to walk and highlight patterns that need to be noticed. In the same vein, the body holds language that sometimes speaks louder than words. I’ll often invite you to notice and direct you back into a felt sense of experiencing through safe pathways within your body.
If you've been mishandled — by a therapist who was too passive, a system that pathologized you, A doctor who didn't listen, a family that required too much, a religion that took more than it gave — you might be arriving here exhausted and a little skeptical. I welcome the critic and the skeptic; they can have a voice here, too. -
Complex trauma often shows up in relationships. Have you ever found yourself desiring closeness, but the second it gets too real, you pull away? Maybe you over-give, self-abandon, or people-please hard so no one has a reason to leave. How about a combination of both? These attachment patterns — ways of relating to others — are how you learned to keep yourself safe. While useful and protective, these same patterns can lead to feeling stuck, isolated, and longing for meaningful connection in your adult life.
We pay attention to how these show up now: in how you navigate closeness, conflict, and trust. Working relationally, the therapeutic relationship itself becomes part of the work, a place to practice the safety you didn't get growing up. -
You know the movie Inside Out? IFS, or parts work, is kinda like that — the idea that different versions of ourselves can be present at the same time, often in conflict or even a bit like a paradox. Ever heard yourself say, "It's like I want this, but I also don't?" I help you get clear on what parts of you are speaking, what their individual needs are, and how we can work toward integration. Over time, the part that people-pleases, the part that wants boundaries, and the part that's still 7 years old and scared can develop together — leading to greater choice in how you respond. I find parts work is excellent for my high achievers and overthinkers; it's a way to experience yourself rather than think your way through.
PS. You'll probably hear me use the word 'parts' ad nauseam…I swear I'll try to change it up.
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As a somatic therapist in Nashville, I'm interested in how you experience and express yourself through your body. Pain, fear, and high-control religion can teach us to move out of our bodies and into our heads. Somatic work isn't about just bypassing talk; it's about noticing what's happening under the surface: the clenched jaw, the flinch before you've consciously registered threat.
For my chronic illness clients or people who have experienced bodily harm and abuse, we are searching for safe ways to experience the parts of your body that feel accessible. Additionally, we can work to reclaim the parts of your body that feel anything but. This work is entirely verbal — I don't use hands-on touch — but we'll track what's happening in your body as we talk. I work somatically by helping your nervous system learn that safety is possible again, as a felt sense in your actual body, not just your head. This isn't about achieving calm. It's about expanding your capacity to feel. -
Existential therapy asks the big, sometimes uncomfortable questions. You're gonna hear me ask, 'What does that mean to you?' We’ll often swim in themes of freedom, responsibility, meaning-making, and uncertainty: concepts that don't have clean answers. What I offer, though, is the willingness to walk into uncertainty with you, to ask the questions other people avoid, and to trust that you're capable of building a life that feels like yours.
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I understand how difficult it can be to want certainty while living in a world that doesn’t offer it. ERP is how we practice tolerating that uncertainty instead of chasing it away. ERP is the gold standard treatment for OCD, including themes like “pure O,” “right OCD,” “scrupulosity,” or even optimization and relationship OCD. When you're spiraling in an OCD cycle, the point of intervention lies within the response to distress. You'll learn how to navigate the exhausting cycles that lead to compulsions, and how to be with yourself in new ways that don't feed or reinforce the obsessive themes.
If you've heard "exposure therapy" and pictured getting pushed into the deep end of the pool, I want you to know that's not how I work. ERP, when trauma-informed and done well, is gradual, collaborative, and I would never ask you to do anything I wouldn't practice myself. -
Have you ever found yourself puzzled at the end of an argument, wondering how you even got to where you landed when the original fight started over something as "simple" as the dishes? EFT, or Emotionally Focused Therapy, is a way of working with couples that focuses on the patterns playing out between partners, not just the surface-level fight. One partner pursues, the other withdraws, and the more one partner tries to push, the more the other pulls away. That's the cycle we examine, name, and slow down to find out what's really underneath the conflict.
Whether you're newly coupled, years in, a queer couple or cisgendered and straight, I work with relationships navigating communication breakdown, rebuilding trust, and disconnection — including conversations around sex. Couples therapy with me is collaborative and direct; together, we'll interrupt the patterns that brought you in the door and find new ways of cultivating connection, trust, and intimacy again.
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