I enjoy working with clients in their mid-30s to their mid-50s as they navigate the challenges that these two decades can bring—grief and loss, burn out, career stress, financial pressures, health issues, infertility, marital conflict, divorce recovery, balancing work and family, parenting trials, and general loneliness and exhaustion.  

In my 20 years in practice as a therapist, I have found it essential to balance the heaviness and heartbreak of life with humor and playfulness.  While at times my clients and I go to deep, dark emotional places, we also laugh, have fun, and drink tea together. My hope and optimism spring from watching people - myself included - overcome their biggest fears and release their heaviest burdens. ​

I have been married for 19 years, held my sister's hand as she died of breast cancer, lost two pregnancies, gave birth to (and am raising) three sons with geographically dispersed family, and have been to the Emergency Room 20 times (and counting!) with sick or injured children.

I am intimately acquainted with the working parent struggle.  I know the exhaustion of balancing attuned and engaged parenting while also investing in my career, marriage, friendships, extended family, and community.  The struggle is real.  I've learned to cultivate the practice of joy, presence, connection, and play to exist and thrive in a chaotic world. 

I am a Xennial (more GenX than Millenial because I am the youngest of 4 and my siblings were GenXers), an INFJ, and Enneagram 3, with a 2 wing. I enjoy playing and coaching soccer, permaculture gardening, NYT articles and crossword puzzles, dark roast coffee, watching NBA games with my boys, and I love to dance.  If there’s a beat, I have to move.  I am not from St. Louis, so you won’t learn much from knowing where I went to high school (wink).