"...have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves... Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet.
Welcome
Being human is wild. Therapy is wild too, because it confronts us with our humanness. It builds bridges to parts of our inner world for us to explore, and map. So in therapy, we cultivate curiosity, the willingness to embark into the awkward, messy, bracing, comforting growth, and inevitable confrontations. Therapy is what you make of it, but also who's there alongside you for the journey can make the difference. The process is one of examining the expertise of yourself, your life, and identifying what is helpful and, or hurtful - and therefore what might benefit revision, or altogether writing new chapters. That is why I share that Rilke quote above - because we all do have questions; and the way we find the answers, those answers that truly do change our lives, comes from building within. It comes from the courage to look within, at you, the human. That's what I offer, the space for safely searching within, testing the boundaries and beginning that journey to your answers.
The Experience I Offer
I respectfully acknowledge the original peoples of the land wherein I live and work. The land of the Muhheconneok or Mohican Peoples, and the Wabanaki, who were displaced from their lands by colonizers and settlers, and who relocated to Wisconsin, where today they are known as the Stockbridge Munsee Community.
I am from the Berkshires, and desired to stay here so I could offer something to my community. I have worked with folks with a wide range of struggles including, but not limited to anxiety, depression, relationship issues, trauma processing, LGBTQ+ identified folks (including folks anywhere in their gender affirming treatment), women's issues, and postpartum. This has informed the person-centered, holistic view I take as a therapist, emphasizing folks as their whole selves. I have experience helping folks build short term goals like coping mechanisms, based in cognitive behavioral therapy, but I also have helped folks directly confront their inner parts that have contributed to the need to build new coping skills. I have a bachelors in Expressive Arts Therapies, and a Masters in Mental Health Counseling with specialization in Drama Therapy, both from Lesley University. I am a supporter of the LGBTQ+ community, BIPOC inclusive, Social Justice Allied, and Health at Any Weight.
Informed from my graduate and post graduate experience for the last 10 years in residential addiction treatment, community mental health, community support working, and college counseling, I bring a casual, honest and empathetic space to feel what you feel free of judgement. If you feel we might be a good fit, reach out.
