How do you describe your counseling style?
I take an embodied, experiential approach to therapy, drawing from AEDP principles to create a safe, warm, and emotionally attuned environment for healing. I believe that healing doesn’t happen in isolation; it’s built through deep, authentic connection. I work with clients to help them tap into their emotional and physical experiences, so they can process and transform. I like to focus on being present with your emotions and your body in the moment. I trust that feelings, even difficult ones, carry wisdom, and I guide clients in exploring and understanding them. My background in art and somatic therapies allows me to bring creative, non-verbal ways of accessing and processing emotions into the work. Whether it's through body awareness, movement, or creative expression, I encourage clients to explore what they might not be able to access through words alone. These non-verbal channels are often where deeper healing happens — often without even realizing it at first.
Have you been in therapy yourself?
Yes, I’ve been in therapy and still am! I am incredibly grateful for it. Therapy, particularly with modalities like EMDR, somatic therapies & meditation has been invaluable for me. It’s helped me develop a deeper sense of awareness, confidence, and hope. My relationship to pain (both bodily and emotionally) has shifted — I no longer see it as something to avoid or escape, but rather as something I can learn from, embrace and move through. My time in therapy is partly what led me to become a therapist myself. I know firsthand how powerful it can be to have a supportive, compassionate therapeutic relationship where you can explore, process, and ultimately find healing.
What books have made the biggest impact on your life?
A book that has deeply influenced my work as a therapist is It’s Not Always Depression by Hilary Jacobs Hendel. I recommend this book to those new to therapy and seasoned AEDP practitioners alike. It’s shaped many of the ways I approach healing, especially around the idea of processing and understanding emotions through the body. Yukiko Tominaga’s novel See: Loss. See Also: Love. I cherish this story and I have it in both hard copy and audiobook. It’s a beautiful exploration of how loss, while spiralling and painful, also opens the door to a deep, expansive capacity for love. It’s a playful yet profound reminder of the complexity and richness of human emotion. Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a gorgeous biography with themes of love & relationships, gender & queer theory, bodily experience, and even domestic bliss. Nelson’s writing touches on the limits of language and the profound ways in which we navigate love, sex, art, and transformation — themes that resonated deeply with me when the book was first published in 2015. More recently, I’ve been returning to Mouthful by Matt Starr. His book of poetry is a quick read with a sunny blend of optimism, whimsy, and the playful side of perversion.
