Welcome! I’m glad you’re here. I believe that healing is not only possible, but inevitable when we feel safe, supported, and understood. We were not meant to navigate suffering alone. Often, we need presence, connection, and trust with another to better understand what’s happening within us.

I love what I do and feel honored to walk beside people navigating relationship conflict, complicated grief, anxiety, depression, and symptoms of trauma. I specialize in working with couples and individuals ages 16+ throughout Washington State.

My goal as a therapist is to support you in actualizing your specific goals for healing by fostering a therapeutic container where you feel safe and compassionately understood. I draw on holistic frameworks including EMDR, Attachment Theory, Eco-psychology, NonViolent Communication, Somatic Experiencing, and Organic Intelligence to support deep, embodied change. Above all, I prioritize listening closely to you as the true expert of your own life, honoring what wants to emerge.

I believe therapy should lead to tangible change you can notice with every step along the way. Together, we’ll clarify what you hope to get out of therapy and create specific goals that we revisit regularly to ensure our time together is meaningful and beneficial to you.

I offer a hybrid of online and outdoor therapy sessions in Washington State.

A little about my own path:

I grew up outside of Chicago and in London, England. After graduating high school I attended Whitman College as an undergraduate where I studied Religious Studies with an emphasis in SE Asian Religions. I had the good fortune to study in India and Costa Rica, and completed an academic program that took me across the United States to various rural and urban communities studying food sovereignty, culture, and various forms of oppression.

Through these formative experiences I gained a deep curiosity and passion for de-colonial approaches to healing and living that inspire my work still today. 10 years ago I began formally practicing various healing arts traditions and lived intermittently at Great Vow Zen Monastery in Clatskanie, OR as a resident.

Prior to my work as a psychotherapist I guided multi-week wilderness trips across the country for a girl's wilderness camp based in Northern Minnesota. I have a passion for wilderness leadership development and had the opportunity to direct a wilderness leadership development program for high-school age girls. In addition to guiding wilderness trips I was a Field Instructor with Second Nature Wilderness Family Therapy based in Duchesne, Utah where I worked with adolescents facing various behavioral and emotional challenges in 2019.

My love for wild places has carried me through multiple thru-hikes including the Arizona Trail and Te Araroa in Aotearoa (New Zealand).

As a clinical mental health master's student I worked with a group private practice in Bellingham, WA where I offered couples, child, and individual therapy. Additionally I had the opportunity to work with Animals as Natural Therapy to provide equine-assisted therapy to youth. I completed an internship with Compass Health's Mobile Crisis Outreach Team (MCOT) serving Whatcom County as a mental health crisis responder.

I am a NEDA certified End of Life Doula. I work closely with people in the process of dying to find peace, ease, and meaning in light of life's greatest transition.

If you are interested in learning more about my services don't hesitate to reach out and schedule a free 30-minute consultation. I offer a hybrid of in-person, outdoor therapy sessions in Bellingham, WA and online Telehealth sessions accessible for anyone in Washington State. I look forward to connecting with you!

Hurricane

It didn’t behave
like anything you had
ever imagined. The wind
tore at the trees, the rain
fell for days slant and hard.
The back of the hand
to everything. I watched
the trees bow and their leaves fall
and crawl back into the earth.
As though, that was that.
This was one hurricane
I lived through, the other one
was of a different sort, and
lasted longer. Then
I felt my own leaves giving up and
falling. The back of the hand to
everything. But listen now to what happened
to the actual trees;
toward the end of that summer they
pushed new leaves from their stubbed limbs.
It was the wrong season, yes,
but they couldn’t stop. They
looked like telephone poles and didn’t
care. And after the leaves came
blossoms. For some things
there are no wrong seasons.
Which is what I dream of for me.

Mary Oliver,  A Thousand Mornings.

Deep Eco-Therapy

Deep (extending far from the surface area). Eco (the set of relationships existing between organisms and their environment). Therapy (to care for).

Deep Eco-Psychology is a holistic framework of healing that supports us in experiencing ourselves as an integral part of nature. Eco-Psychology frames the root causes of modern ailments as, in large part, due to our sense of alienation from the web of life. This leads to feelings of isolation, purposelessness, existential angst, anxiety, and depression. Eco-Psychology combines psychology and the ecological study of biological functioning. The result is a path of discovery balanced by one's curiosity of self and other.

Eco-Therapy is effectively done either online or in person. No matter where we are we have the opportunity to explore and find nourishment in our environment. By remembering our inseparable connection with the web of life we may find life-long healing and transformation.

Organic Intelligence

Organic Intelligence is a therapeutic approach created by Steve Hoskinson, aimed at addressing trauma in a safe and effective manner. This modality evolved from Somatic Experiencing (SE) and similarly approaches healing through the lens of biology.

Unique to OI is the emphasis on trauma-safe therapy. By understanding our biological response to stressful events, we explore together the nervous system cycles of intensity and resolve with the aim to steadily, safely, and with great care promote ongoing access to ease and security.

This approach takes into account the unique experiences and needs of each person, providing tailored guidance and support. Through OI, individuals can tap into their natural path of healing and move towards a more embodied sense of well-being.

NonViolent Communication

NonViolent Communication is based on a simple idea that our emotions are like arrows pointing us to underlying, universal human needs that are either met or unmet.

NonViolent Communication frameworks and tools help us to organize our own experiences through emotional identification and connecting to our basic human needs. These tools promote greater intimacy in ourselves, and also provide structure to navigate challenging interpersonal conflict and mutual activation in a way that deepens intimacy, rather than increases separation.

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(360)-230-8130