I'm a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Washington State, fully licensed and in independent practice. I earned my MA in Counseling from Palo Alto University in 2016 and have spent the decade since across community mental health, school-based programs, crisis lines, residential care, and now private practice. My current work is telehealth, serving adults and adolescents (12+) across Washington, paneled with most major insurers through Alma and Mindful Therapy Group.

My training is integrative. The foundation is person-centered and existential — relational, exploratory, oriented toward what's actually true rather than what fits a framework. From there I draw on compassion-focused therapy, ACT, IFS, attachment and somatic approaches, narrative therapy, and EFT and Gottman for couples, depending on what's useful in the moment. A fuller list of training and scope is on the Services page.

What I keep coming back to is something simpler. Therapy is a place where two people can be honest with each other about what's actually happening, without the usual social performances getting in the way. Most of what looks like a problem is a person doing the best they can with the version of reality they have access to. The work is widening that access — looking at what's there with more honesty, taking it seriously, and figuring out together what to do with what you find.

Being a human is hard. The work isn't to make it easier exactly. It's to be in it more fully, with less of the apparatus you've built to keep yourself from feeling it.

A session with me tends to move slowly. I don't rush past things. If something you said two minutes ago hasn't quite landed yet, we'll go back to it. I take your specifics seriously — the exact word you used, the moment you almost said something else, the feeling that doesn't have a name yet but is clearly doing something. I think most people are not used to being attended to that closely, and that the experience of it is itself part of what makes therapy work.

I'm not interested in performed insight. I'd rather we say a smaller thing that's actually true than a bigger thing that sounds right. I'll push back when something doesn't fit, and I'll sit with you in what doesn't have an answer yet. The relationship is the work, and I take that seriously — not as technique but as the actual condition for anything else to happen.