individual therapy // in-person therapy in asheville, nc and online therapy across north carolina

i work with people who are often givers, parents, or act as their friends’ therapist. my clients feel pretty burnt out from taking care of others (emotionally or physically) and pretending to be okay. a lot of you might be new to therapy, having spent most of your life tending to others instead of to yourself. i get that, and i’m glad you’re changing things up and considering yourself a smidge more.

neurodivergence //autism spectrum disorder// adhd

there’s often a peculiar mix of alarm and validation in suspecting you’re autistic. like finding a label that scares you and finally lets you breathe. while i work with folks of all genders at all points in their neurodivergent experience, i specialize in supporting women who’ve received a late in life autism diagnoses. self-acceptance doesn’t require understanding “the why”- but it often comes more easily when we finally see ourselves through an autism, adhd, or neurodivergent lens.

pregnant or parenting // perinatal support

pregnancy and parenting can highlight a lot of our ‘stuff.’ it often intensifies underlying challenges we’ve carried our whole lives; executive functioning struggles like hygiene, nutrition, budgeting; low level anxiety, recurrent depression; desire to maintain control (our spaces and homes, our relationship, our bodies). I work with people impacted by parenting and pregnancy (their own or their partner’s), and all the “old stuff” that gets drudged up when we suddenly become responsible for other little humans.

cycle breakers

parenting isn’t the only thing that invites us to break cycles. the end of a relationship, new jobs, new cities, estrangements, sick and tired of being sick and tired- all of these are invitations to do something differently.

clinical info and professional interests

my additional professional interests include working with foster parents or adults who were raised in the foster system, those impacted by generational trauma, and working with folks in the lgbtqia+ population. i love to nerd out about neuroscience/trauma and the brain, and am excited to pursue further trainings in art therapy. i am a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW C016220).