In my work, I aim to create a collaborative, grounded space where you can move at your own pace, listen to your body’s wisdom, and reconnect with your own inner authority. You are welcome here exactly as you are.
I still remember my first therapy session at 20… walking into the office, noticing the seating options, and asking, “Where should I sit?” When the therapist said, “Anywhere you’d like,” I chose the chair he usually sat in. The next week, he mentioned that was
typically his seat. I replied, “That’s why I asked.” The question was an assessment tool for him, but for me, it highlighted how much I value transparency, agency, and questioning the unspoken hierarchies that often exist in therapeutic spaces.
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I believe in the power we access when we release inherited ideas, step outside rigid norms, and reconnect with the wisdom inside us. Much of my work focuses on helping people access insight that lives beyond words, especially when they’re trying to make sense of experiences that feel overwhelming, confusing, or long-held in the body.
I hold a Master of Science in Music Therapy with an emphasis in Counseling Psychology from Radford University. My clinical lens is trauma-informed, solution-focused, and depth-oriented, with a strong foundation in Internal Family Systems (parts work). I specialize in helping clients access non-ordinary states of consciousness for healing and insight, primarily through the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM), often integrating Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and other creative arts therapies when helpful.
I work well with people who don’t fit neatly into boxes, or who are tired of trying to. While I respect the support and clarity diagnoses can offer, I’m also mindful of their limits. I’m interested in how we work with what we have, find empowerment within, and navigate the balance between acceptance and change. I’ve been labeled ADHD, gifted, anxious, and depressed at different points in my life, and I relate to these as parts rather than identities. My experiences with grief, trauma, workaholism, and a prolonged medical diagnosis have shaped both who I am and how I sit with others. I’m familiar with the archetypal pattern of traveling into darkness in order to find light, and I see this as a lifelong, spiraled process.
Outside of my clinical work, I love traveling, playing music, hot yoga, being in nature, cooking, and spending time with people I care about. If I weren’t a therapist, I’d be a chef. Before settling in Asheville in 2011, I lived and worked in Montreal, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Providence, and Durham.
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In addition to my private practice, I am a consultant with Teleios Collaborative Network, for which I provide leadership and professional development support to non-profit hospice/serious illness organizations. Building community, supporting wellness, and helping people reconnect with their inner authority are central to my work.
