My Approach

I’m a Licensed Mental Health Counselor based in Washington State, and a graduate of The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. My work centers on people who carry stories shaped by trauma, addiction, grief, and rupture—wounds that often originate in relationships but don’t stay confined to the past.

Many of the people I work with have experienced harm not just from individuals, but from systems—family systems, religious systems, cultural structures—that left them feeling unseen, unprotected, or deeply alone. What emerges from that kind of history is often complex: pain that’s hard to name, patterns that feel impossible to change, and a longing for something more true than what was inherited.

Therapy, for me, is about offering a space where you don’t have to hide—where what hurts can be named, and where even the most tangled stories are met with care rather than judgment. Pain that’s carried alone tends to harden into shame. But pain that’s held in relationship has a chance to soften, to move, to change.

We won’t revisit the past to get stuck in it. We’ll go there to understand it—to listen for the stories beneath the surface, the beliefs that formed in silence, the moments when something in you decided it wasn’t safe to be who you are. So often, those beliefs linger long after the danger has passed. They whisper that you’re unworthy, too much, not enough. They organize your life without your consent.

Part of the work is to name those stories for what they are—not truths, but survival strategies. And then, gently, to begin loosening their grip. To ask what else might be possible.

Healing doesn’t mean erasing the past. It means reclaiming your relationship to it. Finding a steadier ground in the present. Beginning to live from something deeper than fear.

If something in you is ready to move toward that—however slowly—I’ll meet you there.