Maybe you’ve spent a long time wondering why life feels harder than it seems like it should.

You may feel things deeply, notice what others miss, or become overwhelmed by environments and expectations that seem easier for other people to navigate.

Maybe you’ve learned to adapt by masking, overthinking, people-pleasing, perfectionism, or constantly monitoring yourself and the people around you.

From the outside, you may look capable. Inside, you may feel exhausted from trying so hard to function in ways that don’t come naturally.

Your experience makes sense. You may simply need a different way of understanding yourself.

You might recognize yourself in:

• chronic overwhelm • burnout and nervous system exhaustion

• anxiety and/or depression • emotional depth and intensity

• masking or over-adapting • people-pleasing

• perfectionism and self-monitoring • feeling "too much" or "not enough"

• difficulty trusting yourself and your needs • overwhelm in parenting

• ‍imposter syndrome ‍ • a history of trauma

• emotional, environmental, or sensory sensitivity ‍ ‍

Many of the people I work with are perceptive, thoughtful, emotionally attuned, and deeply sensitive. They may have become incredibly skilled at adapting themselves to environments, expectations, or relationships that don’t always fit the way they naturally experience the world. Therapy can be a place to stop working so hard to fit and begin discovering what actually supports you.

For some women, hormonal transitions such as perimenopause and menopause can also bring new questions about sensitivity, overwhelm, identity, and neurodivergence, or make longstanding patterns more difficult to ignore.

I primarily work with adults and teens, and also see children on a case-by-case basis when my approach feels like a good fit for the child and family.