A therapist who has done her own work — and keeps doing it.

I grew up in Spokane and have spent most of my life in this community. Before I was a therapist in private practice, I spent years in child welfare, adoptions, and systems-level work — quality assurance, training, accreditation leadership. I know what it looks like when institutions fail people. I also know what it looks like when people carry that failure quietly, convinced it says something about them.

That background shaped the kind of therapist I became. I'm drawn to clients who are high-functioning on the outside and exhausted on the inside — people who have insight, who work hard, who often know exactly what their patterns are and still can't seem to shift them. That gap between understanding and change is where I live.

Why IFS

I've trained in a number of modalities over the years. IFS is the one I kept returning to, and eventually committed to fully. It's not because it's trendy — it's because it works in a way that other approaches don't quite reach. IFS doesn't ask you to override your difficult parts or replace them with better thinking. It asks you to get curious about them. To understand what they've been protecting. To create the conditions where they don't have to work so hard anymore.

I'm a Level 3 trained, Certified IFS Therapist. I've also worked as a Program Assistant for IFS trainings, which means I've had the opportunity to support other therapists learning this model — and in doing so, deepen my own relationship with it.

I integrate EMDR for processing specific traumatic memories when that's what the work calls for, and I bring motivational interviewing into sessions where ambivalence is part of what we're navigating.

Who I am outside the office

I work with a significant number of neurodivergent clients — particularly adults with ADHD, autism, or high sensitivity — and have developed particular fluency with the ways standard systems and approaches can miss the mark for people whose minds work differently. I don't treat neurology as a problem to be corrected.

I'm also a community advocate. I've worked alongside state legislators and parent groups on special education policy, and I care deeply about what happens when families encounter systems that are supposed to help them but don't. That work and my clinical work feed each other more than you might expect.

I hold a Master's degree in Social Work from Eastern Washington University and a Bachelor's in Social Work from the University of Montana. I am licensed as an Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) in Washington State.