Here's what you need to know about me: I have a PhD, a master's degree, a bachelor's degree, a therapy license, a tenured faculty position, a private practice, two kids, a husband, a camera I carry everywhere, and a Moms Demand Action volunteer badge. And I still answered your inquiry email at 10 pm because that's just who I am as a person.

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I specialize in healing after emotional and psychological abuse, trauma recovery, domestic violence, narcissistic abuse, anxiety, depression, and the very specific kind of exhaustion that comes from holding everyone else together while quietly falling apart yourself. I see you. Literally, that's my job.

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I didn't end up here by accident. Before private practice, I was volunteering on a domestic violence hotline, working as a victim advocate for a police department, and writing my doctoral research on what it actually takes for survivors to leave abusive relationships and rebuild their lives. I've been a hotline volunteer, a victim advocate, a researcher, and a foster parent. My bar for "shocking" is basically nonexistent at this point.

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That background means I'm not just academically familiar with what emotional and psychological abuse does to a person. I understand the confusion, the self-doubt, the way you can love someone and still know something is very wrong. I understand why leaving is complicated, why staying is complicated, and why healing takes so much longer than anyone tells you it will.

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I started in this field because I believe healing is possible, even when it feels absolutely impossible, and because sometimes you need a therapist who gets it, not just clinically, but humanly.