My therapeutic work is grounded in both clinical training and lived experience, with a focus on how unexamined messages can shape our self-perception and well-being. I use a relational, nonjudgmental approach rooted in the belief that every person holds inherent worth and the capacity for growth. I strive to create a space where clients feel safe, seen, and supported as they make sense of their stories. I specialize in working with individuals navigating grief, life transitions, identity exploration, and LGBTQIA+ experiences.

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One of my first loves (unless you count Neil Diamond) is books. It feels like a welcome inheritance from my grandmother, to my mother, to me, and now to my daughter. I don’t know how to live better than any human, but through a life devoted to reading, listening to, and telling stories, I do know how to derive a cohesive narrative that helps us make meaning of our lives. Throughout my continuing education, I’m learning that love and compassion, though hard-won through facing our and each other’s pain, are at the heart of my understanding of justice and just relationships: putting our human potential first while acknowledging that we all make mistakes and need to lovingly hold ourselves and each other accountable so we can do better next time.

Some key cultural components of my identity that I believe are relevant in my practice are my whiteness, motherhood, being a cisgendered woman married to a loving white man, being raised upper middle class, a daughter, and a friend. I am an “Okie” in my blood though I’ve not lived in Oklahoma City since I left for college. In much of my heart, I am a New Yorker, having pursued my professional passion and established my beautiful family there for 12 years (hence I maintain a license there). Houston is starting to feel like a home 5 years later as I see my efforts to build community, even amid a pandemic, pay off.

I first worked in public relations, then publishing, until I finally followed what was most true. I got my Master’s in Social Work in New York City. Then I pursued intensive training in couple and family therapy, specifically exploring how issues of power, privilege, and oppression play out in relationship dynamics. My vision for my life and my practice is grounded in the pursuit of justice as I understand it. As my son’s beloved Spider-Man espouses, with great power comes great responsibility. I believe it is our human responsibility to use the power of our imaginations to cultivate a more just world. I believe that starts with us.

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I was drawn to this work because I have always been interested in people—the experiences that shape us, the environments we navigate, the relationships we form, and the ways we learn to make sense of what happens to us. I believe that sometimes people do not need someone to “fix” them; they need someone willing to sit with them, listen without judgment, and help them understand their story from a different perspective.

As a developing clinician, I am learning that therapy is not about having all the answers. It is about creating a space where clients can feel safe enough to be honest, curious enough to explore, and empowered enough to recognize their own strengths. I want my sessions to be grounded in empathy, authenticity, cultural humility, and a trauma-informed approach. I hope to meet people where they are rather than where I think they should be.

I am especially interested in exploring work with adolescents and young adults, individuals navigating trauma and significant life transitions, and people who may feel overlooked or misunderstood by the systems around them. I am also interested in understanding the ways trauma, relationships, identity, and our environments can influence mental health and the choices we make.

I am still becoming the clinician I want to be, and I think there is something beautiful about that. I am learning, asking questions, challenging my assumptions, and allowing my experiences—both personal and professional—to shape me without allowing them to define the clients I serve. More than anything, I hope to become a clinician who helps people feel seen, heard, and reminded that their story is still being written.

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