About my approach

Whole-brain, mind-body healing for authentic, lasting change

The perinatal period—pregnancy, postpartum, fertility, and loss—can be a powerful gateway to lasting healing.

Science backs this up: your brain is more flexible, adaptable, and open to change (what we call neuroplastic) during pregnancy and postpartum than at any other time in your adult life.

I believe this is also true for those on fertility journeys and trying to conceive. As soon as you’re making choices for the sake of a future child over yourself, your brain is already rewiring towards adaptability, nurturing, and resilience.

Becoming a mother is a profound identity shift, making clear to us what matters most. Because pregnancy, postpartum, fertility, and loss are embodied experiences, they can surface long-held patterns of disconnection, internalized narratives, or loss of trust in the body and self. But this unique window of transformation also offers an opening: a chance to reshape how we relate to our bodies, our stories, our beliefs, and our sense of possibility.

I believe that, with the right support, you can leave this period more grounded, stable, and vibrant than you entered it.

It’s my honor to meet women in their places of deepest longing, vulnerability, and hope. Together we use evidence-based practice to heal long-held patterns and create lifelong flourishing.

I use a whole-brain, mind-body approach grounded in three principles:
compassionate companioning, creative expression, and movement-based practice.

Compassionate companioning

Reconnect to your inner resources

Companioning starts from the belief that you already carry the wisdom, strength, and resilience to weather significant challenges. My role is not to "fix" or lead, but to support you in reconnecting to your strengths and help you figure out what’s already working and how we can magnify that to move from stuckness to flow.

Our culture often encourages women to distrust our intuition, lived experience, and the held wisdom of our bodies. I use a method called Solutions-Focused Counseling to help you identify what’s working and what’s possible, so you can reclaim those inner strengths and use them to propel you forward.

Compassion isn't just comforting—it’s transformative. Each time we remember an event, we take it out of long-term memory and bring it into working memory (this is why memories often change just slightly over time!). While that may sound unnerving, it actually has tremendous potential for healing; it means that every time we talk about an experience in a safe, compassionate, and empathetic setting, we can infuse that memory with safety and empathy, shifting how it lives in your body and mind.

Creative expression

Rediscover your sense of wonder

The logical left side of the brain looks for stories that make sense of our suffering and experiences. That can be extremely powerful in identfying patterns and finding solutions, but on its own—especially for verbal processors—it can also lead to rumination and spiraling anxiety.

Creative expression—art, music, dance, making a space homey, planning an event—gets us out of the linear, overthinking left brain and into the creative, intuitive right mind. By incorporating creativity and art therapy techniques, we can interrupt rumination, relieve anxiety, and bring you back in touch with your innate sense of play. To do this, I use therapeutic art techniques taught by Birthing from Within.

Creativity relieves anxiety in the short-term, and in the long term helps us
drop into wonder, presence, and possibility.

If you haven’t explored creativity as part of healing practice before, this may seem really abstract. Take a look at my page about birth art to get a better understanding of what this can look like in practice.
I find Martha Beck’s Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose a great explainer on how creativity can interrupt harmful patterns of rumination and anxiety spiraling. For a taste of her philosophy, you can take a look at this podcast interview clip with her. Just a head’s up that other parts of this interview mention past abuse, although not the section I’ve linked.

Movement-based practice

Restore your sense of safety

Unprocessed emotions, stress, and trauma often live in the body. Because of this, body-based practices can help us access and move through the parts of our experiences where words can’t reach. I use techniques like Somatic Experiencing, somatic movement, and polyvagal-informed practice to help you reconnect to your body, regulate your nervous system, and create a lasting sense of body-based safety and freedom.

Combined with perinatal neuroplasticity, the embodied nature of pregnancy, postpartum, fertility, and loss make these practices especially powerful in the perinatal period—and make this time of your life uniquely capable of supporting profound long-term healing.

If you haven’t incorporated body-based practices into your care before, it may be hard to understand what that could look like. Give a try to Vagus nerve massage or this movement exercise from my client resource library to see what I mean.
Some of my favorite books about this topic are Somatic Maternal Healing by Helena Vissing, Body-Based Healing by Brittany Piper, and The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk. Just a head’s up that the last two books both talk about specific kinds of trauma, including abuse.

By integrating compassionate presence, creative exploration, and body-based healing, we create a space for you to move through grief, release stuck emotions, and rebuild trust in your body and yourself.