About Me
I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and online therapist in Illinois with over ten years of experience supporting adults through life’s challenges. I graduated from DePaul University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Loyola University Chicago with a Master of Social Work. After working with a group practice, I opened my own practice to focus on what I love most: helping individuals quiet the noise of anxiety, find their footing through the deeper questions that surface in midlife, and reconnect with a sense of meaning and authenticity that feels genuinely their own.
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, and women moving through perimenopause, menopause, and the identity shifts that midlife often brings. My style is warm, compassionate, and collaborative, and 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 me 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. The patterns that bring people to therapy, the managing, the performing, the self-doubt, often developed for good reasons. They were strategies, not failings, and understanding them with curiosity and compassion is where meaningful change begins.
For some, that exhaustion arrives alongside anxiety that has simply become unsustainable. For others, it comes with midlife, when the body begins to change, familiar roles start to shift, and questions that were easy to set aside suddenly feel more pressing. Whether you are navigating the psychological weight of perimenopause or menopause, a transition in identity or relationships, or a quieter but persistent sense that something needs to change, this work creates space to pay attention to what has been going unexamined.
Our work is reflective, collaborative, and focused on aligning with what you care about most. I believe deeper and more durable change happens not by forcing, but by understanding the patterns and experiences that formed you, which are often deeper than what’s visible.
Rather than developing tools that address the symptoms but not the source, 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 you know if I’m the right therapist for you?
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, that helps you understand patterns, not just manage them. If this sounds like the kind of work you are looking for, I encourage you to take the next step.