Welcome
Being in the world with chronic illness can feel overwhelming at times, whether you’re newly diagnosed or have been managing your illness for years. As a therapist, I understand the grief, loneliness, fear, anger, shame, and vulnerability that may surface, often at unexpected moments. Yet managing life with chronic illness also presents tremendous opportunities for growth, insight, compassion, and humor. Attention to the emotional aspects of living with medical illness can lead in therapy to discovering new ways of caring for yourself, of moving through the world with more agency and joy, of being more genuinely, fully with others.
Find Support
- for sustaining commitment and energy for self-care
- processing loss, grief, and challenging emotions
- building supportive, trusting relationships
- nurturing a compassionate, healing relationship with yourself and your body
- parenting as a person living with illness (or parenting a child with chronic illness)
- working through internal obstacles to growth and change
- exploring identity
- considering the impact of family, culture, oppression, and marginalization on your experience with illness, body, and self
- managing symptoms and medical treatments, and navigating the health care system with a sense of agency
- discovering how to live with more ease, joy, creativity, and love
My Approach
I am committed to helping you understand your own history, struggles, and relationships in new ways, so you can create a path to a more satisfying, meaningful life. Through our work together we can be curious about the past, observant in the present, and hopeful for the future. Our sessions may contain currents of deep emotion and longing, as well as quiet reflection, thoughts about the day-to-day, and humor. I will provide a warm, sensitive presence, and be a non-judgmental, intelligent listener and caring witness to whatever unfolds. Weekly therapy provides a dependable time to be present for yourself in a collaborative and healing relationship
My Background
I have been in clinical practice as a nurse and therapist for more than 20 years. As a specialist in the psychological dynamics of living with medical illness, I have worked with people with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, cystic fibrosis, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, vitiligo, irritable bowel syndrome, alopecia, bleeding disorders, and celiac disease, among other conditions. My practice includes individuals struggling with depression, anxiety, relational issues, adoption, infertility, parenting, loss, gender, and sexuality.