A busy mind that doesn’t feel like home
I work with a wide range of people, but there's a throughline between everyone I see: they are deeply conscientious, have busy minds, and scrutinize themselves frequently.
What if thoughts, not knowing or trusting your own needs or wants, and feeling exhausted by trying to manage a mind that doesn't feel like home.
You feel like a hostage to your mind
ANXIETY & OCD
One that sees problems around every corner and makes planning for every inconvenience, social rejection, and disaster your responsibility. If this sounds familiar, take a walk with me.
ADHD & AUTISM
Life on hard mode without a manual
You've been stumbling through life on "hard mode" - knowing your brain is unique and special at times while also not feeling like you fit into the mold around you. It's like everyone has a manual On Being a Person and you're just winging it. If this sounds like you or you already identify with neurodivergence, let's dive in more.
TRAUMA & FAMILY DYNAMICS
You grew into an adult who is a stranger to themselves
You don't know if trauma fits your experience, but you do know that you grew into an adult who loses themselves so efficiently you don't even know where to find you. You might not understand how you got here, but together, we can get you back to yourself, to a life of trust and contentedness.
DEATH & HEALTH ANXIETY
No one wants to live more than the person lost in terror about death
It's a cruel irony actually - the preoccupation with dying becomes louder and more compelling than the act of living itself. It's an anxiety that can have an obsessive flavor and the drive to reassurance is real: confirmation that you're healthy, a belief that there's something beyond this one life, or assurance that your family will be taken care of. And yet, the anxiety distracts you from what you are really yearning for: a life that is connected and vibrant and true.
Together, we can get you living again while holding the real vulnerability that this life is fragile and full of uncertainty. Your spirituality is welcome here; let's dive into what it means to be alive.
GRIEF & UNCERTAINTY
Grief is not a problem to solve
There is a specific ache to dread. When the sun is shining, but your mind knows a storm could be on the way. Your beautifully imaginative mind is also an excellent time traveler - replaying memories and creating possible futures - amidst a life that never stops changing. Your body changes, you move, relationships evolve, you make a shift in your career. And through all of it, your mind just hums away: What if this doesn't last? What if it's all wrong? Living a full life is hard when change and uncertainty are near constant companions.
And then sometimes the worst imagined result comes to pass and real grief enters your life.
Perhaps the most profound and heartbreaking part of being alive is that we will lose the people we love. And yet, losing a parent or someone close to you can rearrange your world in unexpected ways. And then losing someone with whom you had a complicated relationship can feel messy. You might be grieving the lack of an apology or the loss of a love you never really experienced.
Grief itself is not a problem to solve; it's all the ways we try to avoid it that leave us more lost than before. Together, we can honor the people you've lost, see grief as the expression of yearning that it is, and ensure that you continue opening yourself up to love in the present.
PERFECTIONISM & BURNOUT
The pattern through it all
When you wake up each day thinking oh god not again you know something has gone off the rails. That bone-deep exhaustion that no amount of sleep can fix feels existential, like all of life is tiring.
Burnout doesn't arrive out of nowhere. It's what happens when you carry the burden of everything on this page without support; or when the inner critic is never satisfied and good enough is nonexistent. So of course you're tired.
Let's set some of that stuff down together - and really look at what makes setting stuff down scary - and start to build a life that you actually want to live.