Why insight alone isn't enough

You're good at understanding yourself. You journal, you read, you reflect, maybe you've already been in therapy. You can explain your patterns in detail: the perfectionism, the overthinking, the anxiety that won't let up even when things are objectively fine.

What brings people to work with me isn't a lack of self-awareness. It's that self-awareness hasn't been enough to shift the pattern. I use an integrative approach incorporating parts work (such as IFS), EMDR, somatic and mindfulness-based methods to help you understand what your pattern has been protecting you from so that it doesn't have to hold on so tightly anymore.

You don't have to keep pretending you're fine.

WHO I WORK WITH

I work well with insightful, high-functioning adults who are already doing their own growth work and are ready to go further than talk alone can take them. Many are professionals managing chronic anxiety and burnout; others are in the middle of a bigger reckoning — a career, relationship, or identity they've outgrown. If perfectionism, overthinking, or a pattern you can name but can't shift is familiar, you're in the right place.

Many of my clients are also neurodivergent, formally diagnosed or not, and are living with the long-term effects of childhood experiences that were never acknowledged or named. If you've spent years being capable and strong, often working twice as hard just to keep up, and are only now understanding what that's cost you, you may have found the right space.

I warmly welcome neurodivergent, LGBTQ+, and ethically non-monogamous adults seeking grounded, affirming care.

WHAT I BRING

I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Austin, Texas, working integratively with parts work (such as IFS), EMDR, somatic approaches, and mindfulness — because no one tool fits every person or moment. My focus is finding what's actually driving a pattern, not just naming it again.

I also specialize in dissociative disorders, including DID and OSDD. If you have a diagnosis, or a growing sense that one fits, I have ongoing training with lived-experience clinicians and use EMDR adapted specifically for dissociative systems — you don't need to convince me.

The relationship between us is part of the work itself. Real change tends to happen through being genuinely seen, not managed or analyzed.

I see clients in person in Austin and across Texas via telehealth.