My therapeutic style is warm, collaborative, engaged, and practical. I strive to create an environment where clients feel both supported and respectfully challenged at a pace that feels safe and sustainable. Therapy with me isn’t about “fixing” who you are — it’s about understanding your experiences, recognizing patterns that may no longer serve you, and moving toward a life that feels more manageable, authentic, and aligned with your values.

Before starting Trellis Therapy of Loudoun, I worked in community mental health providing intensive DBT services to adults experiencing chronic emotion dysregulation, complex trauma, and personality disorders. It shaped the way I approach therapy today: with compassion, curiosity, structure, and a deep respect for the resilience people carry even in the midst of struggle.

I believe healing happens when people feel deeply understood, emotionally safe, and accepted as they are. For that reason, I place significant emphasis on creating a relationship grounded in trust, emotional safety, attunement, authenticity, and respect.

I’m highly trained in evidence-based therapies including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach, I integrate these modalities in a flexible and individualized way, tailoring treatment to each person’s unique needs, strengths, goals, and experiences.

My work allows clients to increase self-awareness, build practical coping strategies, strengthen emotional regulation, improve relationships, process painful or overwhelming experiences, and create lasting change that extends beyond the therapy room. I believe that the ways we think, feel, and respond often develop for important and understandable reasons. Together, we explore both present-day challenges and the deeper experiences that shape how you relate to yourself, others, and the world around you.

From a very young age: knew that I wanted to work in mental health; raised in the DMV; wanted to challenge the shame surrounding mental health and build spaces where people feel truly seen.

People often describe me as: grounded, approachable, and authentic; easy to talk to; deeply cares about people.

In therapy I’m focused on: balancing warmth with honesty and genuineness; making things feel safe enough to explore, yet not so soft that we avoid things that matter; helping you move towards meaningful change, self-acceptance, and more at ease in your own life. 

Outside of therapy: calm, easy to talk to, humorous, not afraid to be authentic, someone who pays attention to the small things, avoids small talk like the plague

A few of my favorite things: Slow mornings, excellent coffee, cozy environments.