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Hello and welcome
I'm glad you're here. Starting therapy and reaching out for help can be a big move. It can be an empowering way to prioritize yourself, slow down, and focus on what's important.
Being vulnerable and facing your pain, questions, and truths is often where you can create space for real depth and change.​
Background
I've been delivering therapy since 2022 in different settings including outpatient mental health, substance use treatment and recovery, and group practice settings serving youth and adults. I started my own therapy practice in fall, 2024 to work with clients in a values-based and authentic way. Before clinical work, I spent over 10 years in higher education, human resources, and nonprofit settings supporting individuals with career development and building programming. That background shaped how I view therapy: not just as mental health support, but as a space where identity, purpose, relationships, and healing all intersect.
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Approach
My training is rooted in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT), and mindfulness-based approaches. I'm also trained in and inspired by complementary therapies and styles, such as trauma-focused approaches, and will pull those in based on your needs, strengths, goals, and how you're responding in the moment.
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Sometimes therapy means focusing on where you're feeling stuck, such as patterns of avoidance or inner conflict, patterns from your history or relationships, or processing recent or historical trauma. Other times it means making space for experiencing painful emotions and even grief, which can be both hard and important. And sometimes, because I'm a social worker at heart, therapy means problem-solving: strategizing about a relationship or work conflict, practicing a conversation, navigating healthcare systems, building self-advocacy skills, or figuring out concrete next steps. Not everything needs to be processed emotionally.
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But therapy isn't always hard or dark; it can be energizing, creative, illuminating, and inspiring, especially as you make connections, deepen your relationship with yourself and others, experience improvements, and live more in alignment with yourself and your chosen values. It can be clarifying and lifting, empowering and freeing. I'm here for the depth work and the practical work...it all matters.
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​Style
My style is collaborative, relational, and gently challenging when needed. Therapy with me is driven by your priorities and voice, but you're not doing it alone. My job is to help our conversations feel natural and relational while creating space for insight and depth to emerge. Some of my favorite moments in therapy are when clients say "I just figured something out!!" ... because that's what happens sometimes when we're in good, trusting conversation together. The work hopefully feels fluid and conversational, but it is intentional. I'm not applying rigid protocols or solving problems for you; I'm meeting you where you are and we're traveling together.
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I strive to be integrative, adaptive, and personalized in how I apply frameworks and approaches. This means the degree to which any particular approach shows up can vary greatly client to client, even session to session. I follow where you want and need to go.
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If something in this resonates, I’d be glad to connect and discuss whether we’re a fit to work together.
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Credentials
​Licenses:
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Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Indiana and Colorado
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Licensed Clinical Addiction Counselor (LCAC) in Indiana​
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Certifications:
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Master of Social Work (MSW) from Indiana University
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Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Sociology & Anthropology from University of Illinois
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Master of Public Administration (MPA) from University of Illinois
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Sexual Health Certificate Program in Sex Therapy from University of Michigan
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Training and lineage
My clinical training was shaped by supervisors and mentors who center trauma-focused, trauma-informed, and trauma-responsive care. Throughout my practicum and post-graduate supervision, I've been fortunate to learn from mostly neurodivergent clinicians deeply committed to trauma work and relational healing. This lineage informs how I conceptualize therapy as a collaborative process of making sense of your experiences within the contexts that shaped them.
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Approaches that inspire me
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The below approaches inspire me and shape how I think about therapy and developing as a therapist.
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Process-Based Therapies including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy, and Coherence Therapy
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Buddhist psychology-informed therapies
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Liberation psychology, decolonial, and Indigenous frameworks for healing and community
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Parts-work
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Trauma-focused modalities
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Narrative therapy
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Psychodynamic traditions
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Existential and meaning-centered approaches
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Play, experiential, expressive, and movement-based therapies​​​​
A few things about me outside the therapy room
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Things that bring me joy: dog walks and canoe trips, backyard bonfires, gardening and vinyl hunting, camping under stars, antiquing with coffee in hand, exploring spirituality, concerts and cooking, walking around cemeteries, and fantasizing about my future life as a black cat’s devoted servant.
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Humor and laughter is part of the work for me. Not to avoid the hard stuff, but to help us breathe while we hold it. I’m also a visual thinker, and might jump into sketching themes and patterns on a whiteboard as we go.
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I believe therapists should do their own work, and I’ve invested many years on the client side of the therapy room. I practice what I invite others into, and believe my own healing and growth is never done.
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Home life: I live with my husband and our son, our senior rescue pup (a Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen), and a small flock of backyard chickens...all proudly named after characters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Contact
Address
819 East 64th Street
Indianapolis, Indiana 46220
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Broad Ripple