Plate III — Specializations

The work I do best.

Every therapist has terrain they know intimately. This is mine — the places where my training and lived experience run deepest, and where clients most often recognize themselves. If you find yourself somewhere below, you're in the right place.

Perinatal & Postpartum

Matrescence — the becoming of a mother — is one of the largest neurological and identity shifts a human being undergoes. Most of us go through it exhausted, touched-out, and told to enjoy every moment.

• Postpartum anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts
• Birth processing and reproductive experiences
• Identity shift, ambivalence, and matrescence
• Returning to work, feeding struggles, sleep deprivation survival

This work makes room for all of it: the love and the rage, the grief for who you were, and the invisible load that arrived with the baby.

Neurodivergent Adults

ADHD and sensory-sensitive adults — especially women and mothers diagnosed late — often arrive in therapy fluent in self-criticism and exhausted from masking.

• Late diagnosis and identity re-integration
• Masking, burnout, and sensory overwhelm
• Executive function without shame
• Neurodivergent motherhood

My work is neurodivergent-affirming from a clinician who shares the lived experience: we build lives and systems around your actual brain, not the brain you've been told to have.

Somatic Trauma & EMDR

Trauma isn't a story you tell — it's a state your body holds.

• EMDR for single-incident and complex trauma
• Interoception: learning to read your body's cues
• Window-of-tolerance mapping and nervous-system regulation
• Body-based approaches for anxiety and overwhelm

Using EMDR and somatic approaches, we work directly with the patterns talk therapy alone can't reach: the startle, the shutdown, the vigilance that outlived its usefulness.

A lot of this work is learning to read your body's early signals and mapping your window of tolerance, so dysregulation gets caught before it runs the show.

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (in training)

I'm completing foundational training in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) through the Polaris Insight Center, finishing in late 2026. KAP pairs legal, medically supervised ketamine with structured psychotherapy — preparation, the medicine session, and integration.

Early research is promising, especially for depression and anxiety that haven't moved with other approaches. It's also a young field, and it isn't right for everyone.

I'm not offering KAP yet. If you're curious whether it could be part of your care down the road, I'm glad to talk about what the research says and what safe, ethical access looks like.

Reference: Dore et al., Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 2019 →

Couples & Young Families

Some of the hardest years of a relationship are the ones with the smallest people in the house — and some of the hardest conversations happen between two people speaking from two different nervous systems.

• New-parent couples: repair, resentment, and finding each other again
• Mixed-neurotype relationships: translation, sensory needs, and unmasking together
• Communication patterns that keep looping despite everyone's best intentions
• Cross-cultural and immigrant couples: two cultures, two languages, one home
• Immigration stress, family across borders, and deciding where home is
• Families with young children navigating big transitions

With new parents, we work on the resentment math of who slept less and the loss of each other in the logistics. With mixed-neurotype couples, the same argument often keeps happening in two different languages — understanding both nervous systems in the room changes what's possible.

I also work with cross-cultural and immigrant couples, and I know this terrain personally: my husband is Italian, and we've each been the immigrant in the other's country.

When two cultures share one kitchen, some conflicts aren't pathology; they're geography — the homesickness that surfaces mid-argument, in-laws an ocean away, the invisible labor of being the partner who translates, and the recurring question of where home is. Therapy can be the one room where both of your worlds are treated as equally real.

You might recognize yourself here if…

• you've become the person who is always holding it together
• your body feels anxious even when your mind understands
• becoming a parent changed more than you expected
• you were diagnosed with ADHD later in life
• your relationship keeps repeating the same argument
• you're looking for therapy that includes your nervous system, not just your thoughts

If you recognized yourself in any of these stories, that may be enough to begin.

The first step is a free 10-minute conversation — no forms, no commitment — just to see whether we're a good fit.