Helping your brain and body process what they haven't been able to let go of.
EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a trauma-focused therapy that can help people process distressing experiences and the thoughts, emotions, and body responses connected to them.
As an EMDR Certified Therapist, I use EMDR as part of a broader therapeutic approach rather than as a one-size-fits-all treatment.
EMDR may be helpful when you experience:
Distressing memories that continue to feel emotionally charged
Anxiety or fear connected to past experiences
Trauma-related reactions
Feeling stuck in patterns you understand intellectually but can't seem to change
Negative beliefs about yourself
Emotional or physical reactions to reminders of past experiences
Relationship patterns connected to earlier experiences
Integrating mind and body
Trauma isn't experienced only through thoughts and memories. It can also affect the way we experience and respond to sensations, emotions, and stress in our bodies.
When appropriate, I may integrate trauma-informed yoga, somatic techniques, grounding, breathwork, and body awareness into the therapeutic process.
As a Registered Yoga Teacher-200H (RYT-200) and trauma-informed yoga teacher, I bring additional training in the relationship between movement, breath, body awareness, and emotional regulation.
EMDR isn't about erasing memories.
Instead, therapy can help reduce the intensity and emotional charge associated with difficult experiences so that the past has less control over your present.
Your pace matters.
Before processing difficult experiences, we'll focus on safety, stabilization, and developing skills that help you feel grounded.
You don't have to rush.
We'll work together to determine what feels appropriate for you and when.
When caring for others starts affecting you.
You spend your days listening, helping, responding, supporting, and taking care of other people.
Sometimes the emotional weight of that work doesn't stay at work.
You may find yourself thinking about clients or patients after your shift, feeling more emotionally reactive, struggling to switch off, questioning your boundaries, or feeling disconnected from the things that used to matter to you.
And because you're used to being the helper, asking for help yourself may feel surprisingly difficult.
I work with healthcare and helping professionals including:
Therapists and social workers
Nurses and healthcare professionals
Behavioral-health professionals
Case managers
Educators and school professionals
Caregivers
Other professionals whose work involves caring for or supporting others
Therapy can be a place where you don't have to be the helper.
We can explore the impact of difficult work experiences, secondary traumatic stress, vicarious trauma, anxiety, perfectionism, boundaries, emotional exhaustion, and personal experiences that may be getting activated through your work.
Your work can be meaningful and still affect you.
You don't have to wait until you're completely overwhelmed to seek support.
My approach may include EMDR, trauma-focused therapy, somatic techniques, mindfulness, and trauma-informed yoga practices when appropriate.
As an EMDR Certified Therapist and Registered Yoga Teacher-200H (RYT-200), I bring both trauma-focused and body-based perspectives to my work.
My goal is to provide a private, nonjudgmental space where you can step out of the helper role for a while and focus on yourself.
The First Friday 5:30 class of each month is FREE for healthcare workers - use code 'healthcare' at checkout. Located at Grassroot Yoga & Fitness Center in Carson City, NV.
When you don't quite feel like yourself.
Dissociation can be difficult to describe.
You may feel emotionally numb, disconnected from your body, detached from your surroundings, forgetful, or like you're moving through life on autopilot.
Some people describe it as feeling like they're watching themselves from the outside. Others simply know that they sometimes "check out" when emotions become too intense.
Dissociation can be a response to overwhelming experiences, particularly when the nervous system has learned that disconnecting is a way to cope.
Therapy can begin with understanding—not forcing.
When dissociation is part of your experience, I take a paced, stabilization-focused approach.
We'll work on developing greater awareness of what is happening, increasing your ability to stay grounded, and building a stronger sense of safety before moving into deeper trauma processing when appropriate.
I integrate trauma-informed, somatic, parts-informed, and EMDR approaches based on your individual needs.
My background as a Registered Yoga Teacher-200H (RYT-200) and trauma-informed yoga teacher also informs my understanding of body awareness, grounding, breath, and movement as potential tools for developing greater connection with the present moment.
You don't have to force yourself to remember everything or tell your story before you're ready for treatment.
For people who are used to holding it all together.
You may be successful, responsible, caring, and self-aware—and still feel anxious, overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck.
Sometimes knowing why you feel a certain way isn't enough to change the pattern.
I work with adults navigating:
Trauma and difficult experiences
Anxiety
Relationship difficulties
Emotional overwhelm
Dissociation
Perfectionism
Stress and burnout
Boundaries
Self-worth
Life transitions
Feeling disconnected from yourself
Therapy can help you move beyond simply managing symptoms and begin understanding the patterns underneath them.
My approach may integrate EMDR, trauma-focused therapy, somatic techniques, mindfulness, and trauma-informed yoga practices.
As an EMDR Certified Therapist and Registered Yoga Teacher-200H (RYT-200), I bring an integrated perspective that recognizes the connection between emotional experiences, the nervous system, and the body.
Together, we'll create a therapeutic approach that is meaningful, practical, and paced around your needs.
You can love your family deeply and still feel overwhelmed.
Parenthood can bring joy, meaning, and connection—but it can also bring anxiety, exhaustion, identity changes, relationship stress, and emotions you didn't expect.
Sometimes parenting also brings up parts of your own history that you thought you had already worked through.
You may find yourself reacting more strongly than you want to, struggling with guilt, feeling like you've lost yourself, or worrying that you're going to repeat patterns from your own childhood.
Therapy can help you slow down and understand what's underneath.
I work with moms and parents navigating:
Parenting stress and overwhelm
Anxiety
Difficult or traumatic experiences
Changes in identity and relationships
Emotional regulation
Perfectionism and guilt
Feeling disconnected from yourself
Patterns from your own childhood
Concerns about repeating unhealthy family patterns
The emotional demands of caring for others
You don't have to become a perfect parent.
You can work toward becoming a more grounded, connected version of yourself—and decide which patterns you want to carry forward and which ones you want to leave behind.
Reconnect with your body, breath, & sense of safety.
Trauma doesn't only affect the way we think about what happened. It can also change the way we experience our bodies, emotions, stress, movement, and connection with ourselves.
Trauma-informed yoga offers a gentle, choice-based approach to movement and body awareness. Rather than focusing on performance or flexibility, the emphasis is on creating opportunities to slow down, notice what you're experiencing, and develop a more supportive relationship with your body.
As a Registered Yoga Teacher-200H (RYT-200) and trauma-informed yoga teacher, I bring this body-based perspective into both my therapy work and my yoga teaching.
For therapy clients, I may incorporate trauma-informed yoga principles and practices into psychotherapy when appropriate and consistent with your treatment goals.
This may include:
Breath awareness
Grounding and orienting
Gentle movement
Body awareness
Mindful movement
Nervous-system regulation
Learning to recognize physical signals and sensations
Developing greater awareness of comfort, boundaries, and choice
These practices can complement trauma-focused therapy and EMDR by helping you explore the connection between your emotional experiences and your body.
Yoga doesn't have to be about pushing yourself.
The goal isn't to achieve the perfect pose.
The goal is to develop greater awareness, connection, and choice.
Insurances Accepted:
Aetna
Aetna Medicare
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mass
BlueCross and BlueShield
Carelon Behavioral Health
Cigna and Evernorth
Curative
Humana Medicare
Quest Behavioral Health
*I am currently working to accept more*
Cash rates:
$160 Individual therapy 1-hour
$300 Psychiatric evaluation
Sliding fee scale based on income