About Me
I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with over ten years of experience supporting adults through life’s challenges. After working in a group practice, I opened my own practice to focus on what I love most: helping individuals quiet the noise of anxiety and reconnect with a deeper sense of meaning and authenticity.
I work virtually with clients throughout Illinois, making therapy accessible and flexible. I have worked with a wide range of individuals including those navigating relationship challenges, processing grief, and healing from trauma. My style is warm, compassionate, and collaborative — clients often describe me as kind, understanding, and easy to talk to.
More than anything, I enjoy learning what makes each person unique and supporting them in reconnecting with who they are. My goal is to help you move from anxious managing toward a steadier sense of self-trust, connection, and fulfillment.
My Approach:
- Integrative & Insightful: I draw from Internal Family Systems, mindfulness practices, and attachment perspectives. I’m also influenced by the work of Gabor Maté and Dan Siegel, which emphasize the importance of awareness, connection, and mind-body integration. Together, these influences shape an approach that looks beyond symptoms to understand how your experiences, relationships, and inner world are interconnected.
- Collaborative & Relational: We’ll work together to understand what has shaped you and to support growth that feels aligned with your priorities and sustainable.
- Grounded & Intentional: Each session is designed to meet you where you are, while supporting purposeful change in how you relate to yourself and others.
What is therapy with you like?
Many of the people I work with are highly capable, thoughtful adults who have learned how to manage, perform, and hold things together — often very well. Therapy with me is a space where you don’t have to keep doing that.
Our work is reflective, collaborative, and intentionally paced. I believe lasting change happens not by forcing yourself to be different, but by understanding what has been shaping you — often beneath the surface of conscious awareness.
Rather than focusing on symptom management or quick fixes, we make space to explore the experiences, relationships, and inner dynamics that contribute to anxiety, disconnection, or self-doubt. Slowing things down allows us to notice patterns, emotional responses, and internal tensions that may have gone unseen or unspoken for a long time.
Sessions are conversational and exploratory. You don’t need to arrive with a clear agenda or a neatly packaged problem. We pay attention to what emerges — thoughts you’ve already examined, feelings you may be accustomed to minimizing, and the subtle signals from your body and inner world that often get overlooked in daily life.
I work with curiosity rather than urgency. There’s space here to think, feel, question, and reflect without being rushed toward solutions. Over time, many clients find that this kind of work helps them move from managing their lives to actually inhabiting them — with more clarity, authenticity, intention, and honoring their own voice.
How do I know if you’re the right therapist for me?
Fit matters.
If you’re hoping for a highly structured or skills-only approach, there may be other clinicians who are a better fit — and I’m happy to help you find those resources. I tend to work best with people who prefer reflective, depth-oriented work and want therapy that is thoughtful and emotionally honest — the kind that helps you understand patterns, not just manage them.