People don’t need to be fixed — they want to be seen.

Finding the right therapist can be a demoralizing process.

The thing that makes therapy work is the quality of the relationship between you and your therapist.

But relationships take time, and how are you supposed to surmise whether a therapist is a good fit by scrolling through Psychology Today? There are too many profiles…and you’re skeptical that any of these people will actually get you. That’s likely the critical piece of information you want to know. That, and even if they get me, can they really, actually help me?

It’s risky to ask for help, especially about our most vulnerable things.

I know this risk — I’ve taken it myself, more than once. It led me here, to being a therapist. But the route has been, ya know, LIFE, which is to say, I’ve had to confront some painful shit along the way. Some of the help I sought was often not that helpful (in fact, some of it was straight up harmful). 

But some of the help and guidance I’ve received in my life — from a range of sources & teachers — has been transformative. I use those experiences to guide me when working with people in counseling. I do not view myself as an expert on how to “fix” mental health symptoms and I don’t presume that I’m able to “heal” people, or even that healing is the definitively right goal for everyone.

What I bring to the table is a process expertise.

So we’ll combine your experience being you with my experience guiding people through their own hidden emotional landscapes. For many people, the result is a more unified & cohesive sense of self and a great deal of relief from the symptoms that brought them to therapy in the first place.

Credentials & Experience

• I graduated from University of Southern Maine’s Counselor Education program in 2018.

• My license is an LCPC-c, which means Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. The little c is for conditional — which means I have regular supervision and another round of exams to take a year or two down the road.

• I receive ongoing training and supervision in humanistic/gestalt therapy at GETME (Gestalt/Experiential Therapy of Maine) and have completed the level 1 training in Emotion Focused Therapy.

• I completed clinical internships at Maine College of Art (MECA), the Cumberland County Jail, and at GETME, where I got training & experience working with couples and individuals.

• I have an undergraduate degree from Bennington College in writing, literature and education.

• I’ve worked in education & social work settings, including doing career counseling, college admissions counseling, and family reunification.