He provides the refuge — we create the space

Hey sister. Let’s pause and take a breath. You made it here — that is not nothing.

You feel disconnected: from yourself, from others, from God. On the outside you look like you have it together. You’re responsible and successful. Other people rely on you.

But inside you’re depleted, constantly managing the imperfections you’d rather nobody saw — and the lies you’ve come to believe about yourself.

You are the “good girl,” the “good wife,” the “good mom,” the “good Christian” — pushing down everything about yourself you dislike, running from yourself. And self is beginning to catch up.

Reaching out for help feels hard. The part of you that thinks you shouldn’t even have these problems is in open conflict with the part that desperately wants to heal. You worry that if people really knew, they’d see you differently.

It’s lonely in there. Few people know the real you.

Let’s talk, sister. You are not the only one who has ever felt this way. There is so much hope for you.

A holistic place to bring your whole self — faith included

You don’t have to carry this alone, and the Lord doesn’t want you to. I’m a Christian therapist integrating faith and evidence-based therapy. I serve high-achieving women who have survived trauma in childhood and adulthood — including narcissistic caregivers, attachment trauma, emotional abandonment, sexual abuse and assault, racial trauma, and intergenerational trauma.

Over the past decade I’ve done significant work supporting women who have survived religious or spiritual trauma and abuse. It is an area of specialty I care about deeply.

There is nothing you’ve survived that will have me running.

The peace and clarity you’re looking for is possible. I offer a compassionate, shame-free space to explore, heal, and evolve with grace — whether you’re carrying past trauma, stuck in anxiety or depression, or wrestling with questions about God in the middle of pain.

What you can expect in therapy

In our first session I’ll get a sense of why you’re coming in. You can share as much or as little of your history as you’re comfortable with, and we’ll talk about whether — and in what ways — you’d like to integrate faith into our work.

Sessions are collaborative, paced to your needs, and grounded in both evidence-based practice and faith-centered care, if you choose it. All parts of you are welcome.

Trauma healing can be heavy. I also believe it can be joy-filled and even playful — and I’ll show you how.

My own path here

I’m a psychiatrist’s kid, so my childhood was interesting — and not without significant trauma of its own. I loved escaping into books. I read my father’s DSM at eight years old when I was bored; I’m entirely serious.

But it was the first time I saw my father cry, after one of his child patients took his own life, that I had my first existential crisis. I was the same age as that child.

I decided at nine that I’d become a therapist — after retiring from ballet.

It looked wildly different from what I imagined, but I did dance semi-professionally for several years before graduate school, and I’ve integrated somatics and movement into my work ever since.

I spent more than two decades exploring Buddhism and yoga before coming to Christ. That journey shapes how I sit with women whose faith is changing shape — I know that ground.

As a follower of Christ I believe God is the ultimate authority on mental health, and that modern neuroscience keeps catching up to what scripture already told us.