Areas of Focus
Anxiety
Anxiety is a natural response to stress or perceived danger, but when it feels frequent or intense, it can be overwhelming. It might feel like your mind is constantly on alert, making it hard to relax, focus, or make decisions. You may notice physical symptoms like a racing heart, tension, or trouble sleeping. Anxiety can make everyday tasks, social situations, or hobbies feel exhausting or intimidating, even when there’s no immediate threat. It can leave you feeling frustrated, stuck, or like you’re carrying a weight you can’t put down.
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I understand that anxiety can feel overwhelming. We can explore ways to navigate it together.
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Depression
Depression can feel like a heavy fog that makes even simple tasks seem overwhelming. It can affect sleep, appetite, energy, concentration, and how you see yourself and the world around you. Relationships, work, and daily routines may feel harder to maintain, and joy or motivation can feel distant or out of reach.
While depression can be deeply isolating, it is not a reflection of your worth, you don’t deserve to feel this way, and there is hope for things to get better.
Neurodigerence
Neurodivergence is a term that describes natural variations in how people think, learn, and process information, often including conditions such as ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and others. It can affect daily life in many ways, shaping how someone communicates, organizes tasks, manages sensory input, or responds to changes in routine. These differences can bring unique strengths as well as challenges, such as difficulty with focus, time management, or navigating social expectations.
While these struggles can feel frustrating or exhausting, there are strategies and supports that can make daily life feel more manageable and fulfilling.
Chronic Pain/ Illness
Many people underestimate the psychological toll that chronic illness and chronic pain can have. Managing ongoing health symptoms often requires constant use of executive functioning skills such as organization, planning, and memory, to keep up with appointments, track medications, and monitor symptoms. These demands come on top of regular daily responsibilities, leaving little space for rest or joy. Over time, this can lead to emotional fatigue, frustration, and feelings of isolation.
Together, we can explore the emotional impact of living with chronic health challenges and find strategies that honor both your needs and your limits.
Trauma
When the brain experiences overwhelming or threatening events, it shifts into survival mode, activating fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown through stress hormones meant to keep you safe. For some people, the danger passes but the nervous system stays on high alert, making the amygdala (alarm system) more reactive, the hippocampus (memory and timekeeper) less able to register that the threat is over, and the prefrontal cortex (thinking and regulation) less effective at calming the body. This is why people can know they are safe yet still feel unsafe, anxious, numb, or on edge. Over time, this chronic survival state affects the body too, contributing to pain, fatigue, sleep and digestive problems, and other health issues.
My goal is to provide a safe space to examine the ways your experiences may have affected you and to explore strategies for increasing bodily awareness and supporting nervous system regulation.
Grief
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Grief is a dynamic experience that can affect both the body and mind. The types of loss that trigger grief can vary widely. For individuals living with chronic illness or pain, grief may arise from the loss of expectations for how they imagined their life would unfold. For those who are neurodivergent or managing other mental health challenges, grief may come from living in a world that does not fully accommodate their needs.
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Whether you are navigating a recent loss, an ongoing loss, or a loss from the past, you deserve a safe and supportive space to explore, process, and make sense of your experiences.
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