Do you feel like you’re constantly balancing your needs with the demands of everyday life? Or drained from having to advocate for yourself or manage your health?

Does your identity feel overshadowed by your diagnosis or condition?

Do others in your life have difficulty understanding your needs or the impact your health and/or disability has had on you, your job, or your relationships?

The majority of my career has been focused on working with individuals living with disabilities or chronic illnesses. I understand both the systemic barriers and interpersonal impacts.

Therapy can be a source of support to help you unravel and integrate these identities. It can also help you process and understand this part of you, the agency you have, and how you want to live your life.

Do you feel like you’re running on empty all the time? That even when you try to rest your mind is still running? Does guilt creep in when you try to give time to yourself?

I work with caregivers of all kinds, those who care for biological family or chosen family. Therapy can help you manage the overwhelm, set healthy boundaries, and care for others while caring for yourself.

Do you feel like you’re running on empty because you’re always taking care of others? Like you’re losing parts of yourself in the process of taking care of everyone else?

Do you find it hard to rest because your mind is racing with everything you still need to do?  Like there’s constant pressure to keep going, even when you’re exhausted?

Healthcare professionals are expected to be the containers for their clients, hold the weight of their patient’s worlds while simultaneously navigating immense ethical complexities, systemic constraints, patient crises and at times, burn out and vicarious trauma. Therapy can help with figuring out and processing the hard parts and strategizing a way through.

You have impeccable attention to detail and think systematically. Feelings are more complicated because they don’t fit nicely into metaphorical spreadsheets and boxes. All of that brilliant thinking didn’t help as much as you thought it would to navigate the nuance and non-linear nature of the world. Therapy can help give you the tools to preserve the strengths of your expansive mind and find new ways of navigating feelings and relationships.

Change is a powerful thing. Life is always changing, sometimes gradually or all at once. A new relationship, a new city, a new job, a new role in your life can be all the things. Therapy can help you untangle the complexity of these transitions and process the excitement, fear, anxiety, or loss that can come with change.

 Maybe you feel constantly overwhelmed, like your emotions are flooding you and you can’t catch your breath. Or maybe you’re getting stuck in the spirals, going down the rabbit holes,  never feeling like you can do things exactly “right,”  or having a hard time relaxing, even when things are going well. Therapy can give you the tools to navigate and calm the worry, work through the spiraling thoughts, and live your life with more ease.

You feel like your body and mind are stuck in survival mode after everything you’ve been through. You need help with facing the painful things you survived and it’s hard to know where to start to unpack everything. Your body remembers, even though you’ve tried to “put the past behind you,” but the memories and feelings keep coming back to haunt you. Therapy can help you get “un-stuck”. It can give you the tools and space to process what has happened and navigate the challenges you’re facing, so you can move forward with clarity, stability, and a renewed sense of control over your life.

When there’s a loss of a significant person, pet, relationship, or even identity, you’re grieving more than just what was lost - you’re also mourning the loss of the future you thought you’d have. Adjusting to a new reality can be overwhelming and hard. Therapy can help you untangle and process the complexity and emotional weight while helping you connect what was lost to a new path forward.