Maybe you’ve heard the saying, “Hurt people hurt others”? I believe that the most powerful way to transform the world is through transforming ourselves. By taking responsibility for our own healing, we do the only thing we truly can do to heal our communities and the world at large. 

I also know from first-hand experience that the very idea of taking responsibility for our pain can provoke feelings of resistance and even resentment. Why should the hard work of healing fall upon the person who’s suffering, and not (only) the people or systems that caused it?

Although each individual finds their own answer to that question, a line from poet Victoria Adukwei Bulley resonates deeply with me in my own struggles:  “As far as you are able, [do] not rely upon what harms you for the shaping of your one wild and precious life.” I believe we have the capacity to choose what defines us, and that we come closer to living our ideal lives when we aren’t defined by our traumas and past wounds.

I became a therapist because I can think of nothing more meaningful than accompanying people on their deeply challenging inner journeys and the shaping of their precious lives. My role is to offer you the space, compassion, and support for you to turn towards your pain, and to find the courage to free yourself from it.