Meet Your Therapist

I specialize in treating OCD because I live it. In my late teenage years I developed OCD without knowing what it was. I remember how lost and scared I felt, and how much shame I carried before I had any language for what was happening in my mind. If you are in that place right now, I want you to know that what you are feeling is real, it is hard, and it makes complete sense to feel afraid.

Therapy is what helped me find my way back to freedom, acceptance, and my own values. That experience is why I became a therapist. I wanted to help others avoid feeling as lost as I once did, to help them understand their OCD instead of being ruled by it, and to help them reclaim their lives and live in a way that reflects who they truly are.

I bring both clinical training and lived experience to this work. That combination means I understand OCD not only as a therapist who has studied it, but as someone who has walked through it myself. My approach integrates Exposure and Response Prevention with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, grounded in genuine care for where you are and belief in where you can go.

My approach is also humanistic at its core. Before any diagnosis, before OCD or any disorder, you are a person. That's always where I start, and it never stops being where I start. I also believe humor has a real place in this work. OCD and anxiety can feel deadly serious, and they deserve to be taken seriously, but I've found that even in the scariest moments, there's room to laugh, and that laughter itself can be part of what helps us heal. As William James put it, "We don't laugh because we feel good; we feel good because we laugh."