Welcome! As your therapist, I will enter our sessions with warmth, acceptance, and the idea that you are the expert on your own life and experience. I work to create a non-judgmental and collaborative atmosphere based on trust and openness. Together, we will build awareness around you and your partner’s patterns and processes, bring curiosity to their purpose and origin, and use the therapeutic process to deepen insights, tap into vulnerability, and create new interactions and connections between each other, and within yourself.

In terms of professional education and experience, I hold a Master’s in Psychology from Seattle University, and have been working as a therapist since 2019 in treatment centers, group practices, and private practice. I am currently a Licensed Professional Counselor in Minnesota, and am working towards my Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor status under the supervision of Amanda Pikala, MA, LMFT. Trainings for Gestalt therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) have been hugely influential in my practice, and I love to use these modalities to deepen understanding and awareness, foster connection, and effect positive change in both individuals and couples. I am currently attending advanced trainings in EFT, with an aim towards becoming EFT-certified. With all clients, whether individual or couples, I bring experience helping clients manage the impacts of relational struggles, depression, anxiety, complex and single-incident trauma, eating disorders, and mood disorders, among others.

One of my core beliefs about the therapeutic relationship is that we meet each other as human beings — I will always show up as myself, bringing empathy, compassion, and humor along with professional experience. As we meet human to human, I am welcoming of all backgrounds and identities across the lifespan, and am anti-oppression, LGBTQIA-friendly, and respectful of all ethical relationship structures.

I am seeing clients in-person at the Burnsville location, and via telehealth.