If you find yourself here, take the next step for yourself and allow me to help you achieve the peace and growth you deserve to move past a difficult time. Whether you’re navigating loss, anxiety, stress, or other challenges, I am here to provide support tailored to your unique needs. I utilize a variety of evidence-based tools and methods, working collaboratively with you to identify and build on your strengths as you overcome obstacles. My approach is compassionate and client-centered, ensuring that you feel heard, valued, and respected throughout your journey. I am deeply committed to creating a safe, nonjudgmental, and validating space where you can explore your emotions and experiences freely. My passion for mental health advocacy drives me to stay informed on the latest research and therapeutic practices, ensuring I can offer the highest quality care. Together, we can work toward building resilience, fostering self-awareness, and empowering you to lead a more fulfilling life.

You are the author of your own life. Sometimes, the story gets confusing. I'm here to partner with you in better understanding yourself, where you are, and where you want to be. For me, the therapeutic relationship is foundational for success, and ours will be built on safety, trust, and compassion. I take an integrative and client-centered approach to counseling, tailoring my methods to suit your unique needs and preferences. I believe in creating a safe and non-judgmental space where clients can explore their thoughts and emotions openly. While proficient in several modalities, I specialize in anxiety, relationship issues, and trauma. I help my clients build resilience through self-compassion, develop coping skills, and ultimately foster healthier relationships with themselves and those around them. I hold a Master's of Science in Education (MSEd) in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from St. Bonaventure University and have worked with clients from all walks of life, ages, and diverse reasons for seeking counseling.

While therapy can feel intimidating or uncomfortable, it is my priority to create a safe environment where clients can feel authentically themselves. I approach the therapeutic process as walking alongside you as we work toward the areas you feel are most important to you. I value warmth, genuineness, empathy, learning, and our relationship as the most essential components of therapy. From my experiences working with adults, I have witnessed the capabilities of therapy and the unwavering resilience of humans. You deserve to live a life free of the weights you carry. If you are willing to have me by your side, I would be honored to support you.

I believe trust and authenticity are what create a strong foundation in the therapeutic relationship. Everyone has a different perspective on the world. We all have hurts and experiences that make us feel like we need to do more or be more to feel worthy of a good life. No matter your hurts and experiences, I will meet you where you are with honesty and genuine curiosity about your worldview. I will walk with you through the hurdles of life. What therapy with me is like: I am an LGBTQIA+ affirming clinician and use an integrative counseling approach, drawing from multiple modalities and theories. I most often draw from person-centered and reality therapy perspectives. I challenge my clients by offering multiple points of view while ensuring they feel they have the autonomy to take with them what works and leave the rest. I welcome and encourage my clients to give me feedback about what is and isn’t working for them. While I have undergone extensive training to be an effective therapist, my clients are the experts of their own lives, and I strongly encourage them to use their instinctual sense of whether something is working or not. I also believe therapy is a great space to practice new ways of communicating and existing in the world—unsure how to have adaptive confrontation? I will support you in confronting me in sessions to practice a new skill. I work with my clients to feel their emotions and not just think about them. I incorporate artistic and somatic practices to improve one's ability to sit with, feel, and release emotions that weigh them down.

Pursuing therapy is a powerful step toward achieving personal growth and insight, allowing you to address any social and emotional issues you struggle with. As your therapist, I want to accompany you on your journey and collaborate to find the root cause of any obstacles you face while also empowering you to become the healthiest version of yourself. I believe it is my role as your therapist to provide a safe, non-judgmental space to explore personal stressors. Operating from a Gestalt perspective, I do this by fostering self-awareness, authenticity, and accountability. Everyone is unique, so I tailor each session to your thoughts, experiences, and mental health goals. Reach out today to schedule a personal consultation to see if I am a good fit to help you achieve mental wellness.