California and Michigan Therapist for Anxiety, Grief and ADHD

Anxiety Therapy

Are you sick of not being able to “get it together?” Are you tired of knowing you have a lot to offer and you can’t break through the noise in your mind? 

In therapy with me, we work together to understand what your brain and body are trying to tell you, we figure out those anxious cycles, and get you moving in the direction you’ve always wanted.

My clients love our work together because I help them bridge the gap between their logical and rational mind and their emotional “feelings” that are more nuisance than ever.

Remember all those times you’ve said:

• “I shouldn't be this upset about this.”

• “Why am I overreacting? It was no big deal and I’m still thinking about it.” 

I’ll help you use that awesome brain of yours to work with you and not against you.

Therapy For Grief and Loss

Grief doesn’t follow a schedule. It doesn’t always look like sadness, and it rarely moves in a straight line. Whether you’re grieving a recent loss, something unresolved from years ago, or feeling the weight of a complicated relationship, you’re not alone—and your grief makes sense.

In my work as a grief therapist, I use Internal Family Systems (IFS) to help clients connect with the parts of themselves holding pain, love, anger, confusion, or even numbness. You might be grieving someone who was a safe haven—or someone who wasn’t safe at all. IFS allows space for all of it: the grief that misses, the grief that mourns what never was, and the parts that just want to keep going like nothing happened.

Together, we’ll gently explore how grief is showing up in your life and what your system needs to feel supported. This isn’t about pushing for closure or rushing healing—it’s about making room for your internal experience with curiosity and compassion.

Grief therapy can be a place where you slow down, make sense of the emotional noise, and let the most tender parts of you be heard. There is no “right” way to grieve. There is only your way, and I’m here to help you find it.

 Internal Family Systems Therapy

In our work together, I weave in the insights of Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, offering you an approach that not only acknowledges the whole you, but welcomes and respects each part of you. As a Level 1 Trained IFS Therapist, ALL of your emotions are welcome.

“Parts-work” is not new to most people, however, the way we apply it in therapy may be different than how you’ve applied it before.

First encounters with “parts work” usually revolve around “inner critics.” Our inner critics are often agitated, worried or hyper-critical of our daily or life choices. It usually results in a spiral up in energy with anxious thoughts and feelings, or a spiral down in energy with depressive moods and self-loathing. Fun, right?

In IFS, we’ll practice presence with what part of ourselves is showing up. While the critical part may be a first encounter, what we’ll come to find out is you have a lot of different parts in your internal “family.” What about the part that is charming and friendly? Or the part that knows how to get really organized and plan a great event? Maybe you have a part that is shy and shows up in areas that you wish your charming part would instead! When that happens we call it “taking over the system.” In therapy, we’ll repair and/or adjust your relationships to these parts so they don’t take over when you don’t need them.

The point is, our parts are with us, forever. How do you want to relate and be in your body with them? If you’re finding inner turmoil, avoidance, dissociation or outright neglect of these inner thoughts, feelings and beliefs, I’m glad you’re looking into other ways of dealing.

Inner harmony is possible and I’d love to help you create more.