Twenty years of sitting with people through the complexities of their hardest moments has given me a deep capacity for the "heavy stuff." My foundation was built through seven years in dual-diagnosis work—specializing in the intersection where mental health challenges and addictive cycles meet. From there, I spent a decade providing clinical therapy within a high-security forensic setting, navigating the intense psychological work of untangling complex behavioral patterns, deep-seated trauma, and the intricate narratives that shape our most difficult paths.

Throughout those years, I worked extensively with individuals and their families, witnessing the ways these struggles ripple through every relationship. These twenty years haven’t made me clinical or detached; they’ve made me a student of the human experience—and the ways our stories shape who we are.

My experience has taught me that shame is the ultimate weight - a heavy, silent pressure that keeps you from seeing your own worth. To cope, we often turn to perfectionism as a shield, hoping that if we just hold it all together, we'll finally feel safe. But beneath that shield, we are often lost in the fog of uncertainty. That uncertainty creates a ball of anxiety so loud that you start to scramble for any direction just to make the feeling stop. I built this practice to be the place where you stop surviving the weight and start navigating your way out from under it.