I think of therapy as a space where we get curious together about how you became who you are and what has shaped the ways you move through the world. Rather than assuming that every struggle lives inside of you, we might look at your relationships, family, culture, identities, communities, and the systems you have had to navigate. Sometimes the things we call “symptoms” are also ways you learned to survive, protect yourself, or make it through environments that asked too much of you. My role is not to sit across from you as the expert on your life or tell you the “right” way to heal. You bring expertise about your own lived experience, and I bring questions, perspective, care, and tools that we can use together. We might unpack the stories you have inherited about who you are supposed to be, make space for grief and anger that have been labeled inconvenient, build practical skills when they are genuinely useful, and explore what you actually want when you are not organizing your life around survival or other people’s expectations. Therapy with me can be serious, messy, funny, uncomfortable, and deeply human. Ultimately, I hope it becomes a place where you have more freedom to question what you have been taught, understand yourself with greater compassion, and decide for yourself what healing and a meaningful life look like.