Are You So Focused on Everyone Else
That You've Lost Track of Yourself?

You've Held It Together for Everyone Else

• Do you wake up exhausted before the day has even started — stretched thin between everyone's needs?
• Are you carrying grief, anxiety, or pain that you've never given yourself permission to fully feel?
• Do you struggle with perfectionism, people-pleasing, or a relentless inner critic that's never satisfied?
• Are the patterns from past relationships or your family of origin still quietly running your life?
• Do you feel pressure to look like you have it all together — even when you're falling apart inside?

Women are socialized from an early age to prioritize the needs of others — to be nurturing, accommodating, and emotionally available, often at the expense of their own wellbeing. The result can be a deep disconnection from yourself: what you want, what you need, and who you are when you're not taking care of everyone else.

Anxiety, burnout, depression, and relationship struggles that women experience are often rooted in this dynamic — in old messages about worth, in relational patterns learned early, and sometimes in painful experiences that were minimized, dismissed, or simply never addressed. Therapy for women means working with someone who understands these layers — not just the surface symptoms.

Therapy That Finally Puts Your Needs at the Center

I specialize in working with women navigating anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, and major life transitions — from early adulthood through midlife and beyond. My approach draws on Emotionally Focused Therapy, EMDR, and Internal Family Systems (IFS), which I tailor to the specific ways women's experiences manifest in the body, in relationships, and in sense of self.

In our sessions, we'll create a genuine space for you to stop performing and start being honest about what you're experiencing. We'll explore the roots of the patterns that are running your life — the self-criticism, the people-pleasing, the anxiety, the numbness — and work toward something different at a deep level, not just a behavioral one.

When painful experiences are part of your history — whether rooted in childhood adversity, intimate partner violence, or the cumulative harm of being chronically dismissed — EMDR offers a way to process that history without having to retell it endlessly. Many women describe EMDR as the first treatment that helped them truly let go of what they'd been carrying.

I work with women at all stages of life: new mothers, women navigating divorce or relationship transitions, women in midlife questioning identity and purpose, women processing pain they've been carrying for decades. I also work extensively with the intersection of anxiety, perfectionism, and relational wounds that is so common — and so often unnamed — in the women I see.

Sessions are available in-person in Phoenix, AZ and via telehealth throughout Arizona. I'm a woman, and I've spent 20+ years in this work. I have empathy for what you're carrying and I know what's possible for you.