For the women who learned to function beautifully while quietly abandoning themselves.
For the women who learned to function beautifully while quietly abandoning themselves.
I help highly sensitive, deeply feeling women heal perfectionism, burnout, people-pleasing, and the relational patterns shaped by chronic self-abandonment.
I help highly sensitive, deeply feeling women heal perfectionism, burnout, people-pleasing, and the relational patterns shaped by chronic self-abandonment.
What therapy with me actually feels like
Relational. Emotionally engaged. Grounded in real human connection.
I’m not a blank-screen therapist.
I’m not going to sit in silence while you perform self-awareness for me.
But that doesn’t mean silence has no place here.
Sometimes silence is where the real work happens—when we slow down enough to notice what your nervous system, your body, or the unspoken parts of you are trying to communicate.
Because I’m not interested in helping you become more efficient at overriding yourself.
I believe therapy works best when there is an actual relationship in the room—one that feels thoughtful, steady, collaborative, and emotionally honest.
I believe therapy works best when there is an actual relationship in the room—one that feels thoughtful, steady, collaborative, and emotionally honest.
What this may look like in practise...
What this may look like in practise...
Noticing and naming patterns as they emerge
Offering warmth, attunement, and reflections you may have not considered before
Gently challenging survival strategies that once protected you
Inviting you to slow down when your thoughts are moving faster than your body
Helping you trust emotional experiences you’ve learned to second-guess
Noticing and naming patterns as they
emerge
Offering warmth, attunement, and
reflections you may have not considered
before
Gently challenging survival strategies
that once protected you
Inviting you to slow down when your
thoughts are moving faster than your
body
Helping you trust emotional
experiences you’ve learned to
second-guess
Some sessions involve slowing down.
Others involve moving something forward.
The goal is helping you build a more trusting relationship with yourself.
We move at a pace that respects your nervous system.
Because if healing requires abandoning yourself again, we’re missing the point.
Why this work matters to me
Why this work matters to me
This isn't an abstract concept to me. I know what it costs to stay disconnected from yourself in order to stay connected to everyone else.
This isn't an abstract concept to me. I know what it costs to stay disconnected from yourself in order to stay connected to everyone else.
I know what it's like to become highly capable while quietly doubting yourself. How easy it is to learn to second-guess your own needs, override your own limits, and become so skilled at adapting that you lose touch with what is actually true for you.
I know what it's like to become highly capable while quietly doubting yourself. How easy it is to learn to second-guess your own needs, override your own limits, and become so skilled at adapting that you lose touch with what is actually true for you.
I know how years of people-pleasing can make you a stranger to yourself.
I know how years of people-pleasing can make you a stranger to yourself.
The work of returning to myself has shaped both my life and my practise.
We are often taught—explicitly and implicitly—that being easy to love is more important than being fully ourselves.
We are rewarded for being accommodating, and learn that keeping others comfortable matters more than honouring ourselves.
Over time, those adaptations can become a kind of self-abandonment—learning to trust everyone else's needs, expectations, and perceptions more than your own inner knowing.
The work of returning to myself has shaped both my life and my practise.
We are often taught—explicitly and implicitly—that being easy to love is more important than being fully ourselves.
We are rewarded for being accommodating, and learn that keeping others comfortable matters more than honouring ourselves.
Over time, those adaptations can become a kind of self-abandonment—learning to trust everyone else's needs, expectations, and perceptions more than your own inner knowing.
I know how painful that terrain can be.
I know how painful that terrain can be.
And I know how easy it is to become incredibly fluent in self-doubt while appearing completely functional on the outside.
And I know how easy it is to become incredibly fluent in self-doubt while appearing completely functional on the outside.
That understanding shapes the way I practise.
That understanding shapes the way I practise.
And I know how easy it is to become incredibly fluent in self-doubt while appearing completely functional on the outside.
Because I don't believe healing happens by becoming better at overriding yourself. I believe it happens by rebuilding a relationship with yourself.
Being in relationship with yourself means learning to listen to your body instead of overriding it. It means learning to take emotions seriously instead of assuming they're wrong, and
staying connected to yourself, even when self-doubt shows up.
The people I work with often worry that change means becoming someone different. But that's not what change is about....
It's about ending the habits and patterns of abandoning the person you've been all along.
Your Patterns Make Sense
Even the parts of you that feel frustrating, confusing, or self-defeating likely developed for good reasons.
We approach them with curiosity—not shame.
Self-doubt doesn’t stay neatly contained. It shows up in your energy, your relationships, your work, and your ability to trust what your body is telling you.
Sensitivity is not a character flaw
Being deeply affected by your environment, relationships, or emotional experience does not mean something is wrong with you. Often, it means your nervous system has learned to pay very close attention.
Insight is not the same as change
Many of the people I work with are already incredibly self-aware. Understanding your patterns matters, but insight alone doesn’t always translate into feeling safer, more connected, or more able to respond differently.
Therapy should feel human
Healing happens in relationship, not through clinical distance, detached interpretation, an authourity telling you "how you should be", or by pretending we’re not both people in the room.
Healing should not require self-abandonment
Growth doesn’t have to come through force, urgency, pressure, or becoming better at overriding yourself. Lasting change happens when you learn to stay connected to yourself while moving toward what matters.
Sensitivity is not a character flaw
Being deeply affected by your environment, relationships, or emotional experience does not mean something is wrong with you. Often, it means your nervous system has learned to pay very close attention.
Insight is not the same as change
Many of the people I work with are already incredibly self-aware. Understanding your patterns matters, but insight alone doesn’t always translate into feeling safer, more connected, or more able to respond differently.
Therapy should feel human
Healing happens in relationship, not through clinical distance, detached interpretation, an authourity telling you "how you should be", or by pretending we’re not both people in the room.
Healing should not require self-abandonment
Growth doesn’t have to come through force, urgency, pressure, or becoming better at overriding yourself. Lasting change happens when you learn to stay connected to yourself while moving toward what matters.
Burnout & Over-functioning
You became exceptional at coping, adapting, and carrying more than most people ever saw. Now your focus slips, motivation stalls, and everything takes more effort than it used to. Rebuild from burnout without abandoning the parts of you that made success possible.
Relationships & Communication
You care deeply—and still walk away from conversations feeling misunderstood, defencive, or like you somehow missed the real conversation entirely. Learn to navigate conflict, communication, and connection without the exhaustion of constant translation.
Neurodivergence & Late Discovery
Maybe a diagnosis changed how you see yourself. Maybe you just know life has always required more effort than it seems to for everyone else. Make sense of your wiring, reclaim self-trust, and build a life that actually fits.
Autism & Women
You learned to be insightful, accommodating, capable—and nearly impossible to read as struggling. Beneath the competence may be exhaustion, self-doubt, and a lifetime of adapting to environments that never truly fit. Therapy can help you come home to yourself.
Therapy Intensives
When weekly therapy feels too slow for what’s at stake, therapy intensives offer deep, focused support designed to create meaningful movement quickly. Immersive, strategic, and tailored to how you actually process change.
Therapy with me looks at how structural and systemic influences have shaped your emotional and mental patterns, and how you can interact with those influences differently.
Burnout, over-functioning, relationship exhaustion, neurodivergent overwhelm, and late self-discovery often emerge from the same painful mismatch: the tension between what your body knows and what you learned was necessary to stay acceptable.
The patterns that often bring people here
BURNOUT & OVER-FUNCTIONING
You’ve become exceptionally good at functioning—even when your body, nervous system, or relationships are quietly paying the price.
Burnout here isn’t just stress. It often looks like chronic over-responsibility, perfectionism, difficulty resting, emotional exhaustion, or the sense that your worth has become tangled up with how much you can carry.
Therapy can help you build a life that no longer depends on overriding yourself to keep everything afloat.
RELATIONSHIPS & COMMUNICATION
You may be thoughtful, emotionally aware, and deeply invested in your relationships—but still find yourself over-explaining, people-pleasing, conflict-avoiding, or questioning your own perceptions.
Sometimes the issue isn’t that you “communicate poorly.” It’s that your nervous system learned that safety depended on managing other people’s reactions.
Therapy can help you move toward relationships that feel more honest, reciprocal, and less costly to maintain.
NEURODIVERGENCE & LATE DISCOVERY
Many adults don't realise they're neurodivergent because it never looked the way they were told it would.
Especially for those identified later in life, there can be grief, relief, confusion, and a profound reorganisation of self-understanding.
Therapy can offer space to explore that experience with curiosity, compassion, and acceptance.
AUTISM, MASKING, & IDENTITY
You learned to be insightful, accommodating, capable—and nearly impossible to read as struggling.
Beneath that competence may be exhaustion, self-doubt, and a lifetime of adapting to environments that never truly fit.
Therapy can be a space to figure out who you are "underneath the mask." A place to understand your nervous system, honour your differences, and come home to yourself.
INTENSIVE SUPPORT FOR MEANINGFUL CHANGE
Sometimes weekly therapy isn't the right pace.
Intensives offer space to focus more deeply on a particular pattern, transition, relationship dynamic, or healing process without stretching the work across months.
Intensives can be especially supportive for trauma processing, relational pattern work, identity exploration, or periods of significant transition.
Many of the clients I work with don’t fit neatly into a single category—and neither does healing. Burnout may be intertwined with masking. Relationship struggles may be rooted in chronic self-abandonment. Perfectionism may be a nervous system adaptation, not a personality flaw. Therapy gives us space to understand the deeper story beneath the pattern—and to imagine what becomes possible when your life is no longer organised around survival, self-doubt, or self-abandonment.
Deep change requires more than insight.
My approach is integrative, trauma-informed, and relational.
That means our work may include:
My approach is integrative, trauma-informed, and relational.
That means our work may include:
Relational therapy
Exploring how old patterns continue to shape present relationships—including the therapeutic relationship itself.
Somatic therapy
Helping you notice how stress, trauma, overwhelm, and emotional experience live in the body—not just the mind.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
A trauma therapy approach that can help difficult memories feel less overwhelming, so they no longer carry the same emotional charge.
Attachment-focused trauma work
Understanding how early relational experiences shaped your sense of safety, boundaries, self-worth, and connection.
Spiritual integration & intuitive guidance
For some clients, healing is also a process of reconnecting with meaning, intuition, spirituality, or a deeper relationship with the natural world. When it feels aligned, our work may include spiritually informed reflection, intuitive exploration, or practices that support reconnection with yourself, your values, and your inner knowing. This is always offered collaboratively and never imposed as a framework for healing.
Relational therapy
Exploring how old patterns continue to shape present relationships—including the therapeutic relationship itself.
Somatic therapy
Helping you notice how stress, trauma, overwhelm, and emotional experience live in the body—not just the mind.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
A trauma therapy approach that can help difficult memories feel less overwhelming, so they no longer carry the same emotional charge.
Attachment-focused trauma work
Understanding how early relational experiences shaped your sense of safety, boundaries, self-worth, and connection.
Spiritual integration & intuitive guidance
For some clients, healing is also a process of reconnecting with meaning, intuition, spirituality, or a deeper relationship with the natural world. When it feels aligned, our work may include spiritually informed reflection, intuitive exploration, or practices that support reconnection with yourself, your values, and your inner knowing. This is always offered collaboratively and never imposed as a framework for healing.
I don’t believe in forcing people into rigid frameworks.
The method should support the person—not the other way around.
My work is grounded in trauma-informed psychotherapy, attachment theory, somatic approaches, and ongoing professional training that supports work with neurodivergence, trauma, and relational healing.
My work is grounded in trauma-informed psychotherapy, attachment theory, somatic approaches, and ongoing professional training that supports work with neurodivergence, trauma, and relational healing.
The Foundation of my Practise:
Training & Certifications
Accelerated Resolution Therapy Basic Trained
Education & Licensure
Pre-licenced clinician in the State of Vermont with 2500 hours
MSW, University of Vermont 2023
Professional Associations
International Society of Accelerated Resolution Therapy (IS-ART)
You don't have to keep earning safety through performance, compliance, or self-erasure.
If this resonates, I’d be honoured to connect.
Helping deeply sensitive and neurodivergent adults rebuild self-trust, inner authourity, and lives that actually fit.
Providing therapy in person and online for Burlington, Chittenden County, and anyone within Vermont.
Pre-licenced therapist in the State of Vermont 097.0135825.