I’m a therapist-in-training working toward my LCSW, and my path here has been anything but conventional.

Before becoming a therapist, I was a nurse. I also spent more than a decade immersed in animal rescue and veterinary care, including street medicine work with both people and animals. I’ve worked in high-intensity environments, been part of large-scale rescue operations, and experienced firsthand what prolonged exposure to suffering can do to the people trying to help.

I’ve also lived a life that doesn’t fit neatly into a box. I lived nomadically for years, converted and lived in a bus, spent significant time in Mexico and Central America, reinvented myself more than once, and tackled a lot of challenges along the way.

When I needed it most, I struggled to find therapy that could hold my whole story. The professional intensity, the mobility, the secondary trauma, and the parts of my life that just didn’t fit a standard narrative.

It was actually my experience with psilocybin that made me recognize just how much of a gap there can be between the therapy people are offered and the kind of healing they may actually need. It showed me that there were ways of understanding myself and doing meaningful work that didn’t fit neatly inside the traditional therapy model.

That realization ultimately led me here.

I’m building the kind of practice I once needed: warm, grounded, curious, and capable of holding complexity without trying to make everything fit into someone else’s mold.

I work especially well with people who are carrying a lot, living unconventional lives, navigating major transitions, or simply feel like the usual version of therapy doesn’t quite fit.

You don’t have to put your life on pause to do meaningful work. You don’t have to become a different person to be worthy of care.

You can show up with the life you actually have.

That’s where we can start.