Hope often sounds like a wishful word in our culture - but I want you to leave therapy with more hope - the gritty, scrappy, resilient kind. This authentic hope grows as you embrace your life story with all its darkness and light. You don't need to talk about everything at once, but just give yourself a place and time to connect with your whole self and pay attention to your life as it is now. As you connect deeply with yourself you are able to carve out space to reimagine how your life and relationships could be. My role is to help you and your loved ones gain new understanding, compassion and ways to connect more deeply. The patterns you are stuck in can shift and change. I have worked extensively with depression, adjusting to motherhood, body image issues, grief, and parenting concerns and helping families create a new pattern of interaction. I see the deep need for mutually respectful relationships in partnerships, and in parenting. As a parent myself I recognize the complexities and joys in nourishing deep connections within a family.