“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” – Mary Oliver

I often tell my clients that if change were easy, I'd be out of a job. Creating lasting change is an often difficult process, but it is possible and I am here to help.

Having been sensitive and curious my whole life, it is no surprise that I became a therapist. Before I became a therapist, I was a yoga teacher. I have been teaching yoga and meditation for the last fifteen years, and been a practicing therapist for 11 years.

I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with the state of Washington (license #LH61084812), having earned my Master's of Arts in Psychology from Seattle University. I completed my practicum at the Seattle Veterans Center where I worked with combat veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), victims of Military Sexual Trauma (MST) and those with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).

My approach to therapy is grounded, collaborative, and evidence-based, with deep respect for how challenging anxiety and OCD can be. I don’t believe in quick fixes, because I don’t believe you need to be “fixed” - instead, I focus of helping you build new skills, awareness, and flexibility with a strong focus on self-compassion. In this way, fear gradually loses it’s authority.

I primarily use Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), the gold-standard treatment for OCD and many anxiety disorders, alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), mindfulness-based practices, and Inference-Based CBT (I-CBT). These approaches work together to help you disengage from fear-driven patterns, tolerate uncertainty, and reconnect with what matters most to you.

I also realize that you are a full, complex human with history, life experiences, and a personality (that goodness!), and you are so much more than your disordered anxiety. I also acknowledge that anxiety flares when we are stressed, going through life transitions, grieving, and our bodies/hormones/health are shifting.

Knowing this, I also create space for healing and working through life events such as:

Grief

Chronic Stress/Burnout

Peri/Postnatal issues and new parenthood

Parenting young children

Trauma

For many of these issues, especially trauma and grief, I also incorporate Somatic Experiencing into my work.

Education and Training

M.A. Psychology, Seattle University (2015)

200-hour Yoga Teacher Training RTY, YogaWorks (2010)

40-hour Buddhist Psychology Training, Jack Kornfield (2014)

20-hour Trauma Informed Yoga Training, Hala Khouri (2015)

40-hour iRest Level 1 Training (2015)

Somatic Experiencing Beginning I and II (2024)

Certification in Exposure and Response Prevention, The Knowledge Tree (2025)

ACT for Anxiety Disorders, CBI (2025)