I want you to be able to bring your whole self into the room, including the parts of you that are neurodivergent, queer, or still figuring out your body and identity. I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and registered art therapist in Tacoma, and neither of those things stays clinical and distant in how I actually work.

I work with adults who are late-realizing they are Autistic or ADHD, a population that's often spent years being told they were just anxious, difficult, or too sensitive before getting an accurate picture of themselves. I use art and creativity as tools for the moments when words are not enough, and no artistic skill is required, the point is the process, not the result. I trained at Antioch University Seattle with a specialization in art therapy, and I'm a member of AAMFT, WAMFT, and AASECT. As a White, cisgender woman, I try to stay aware of the limits of my own perspective and hold that alongside my neurodivergence and chronic illness rather than let one identity stand in for the whole picture.

I'm also neurodivergent myself, along with living with a chronic illness, which shapes how I show up in this work. I'm not asking clients to explain neurodivergence or chronic illness to me from scratch, I already understand a good deal of that territory from the inside.

I'm a good fit for an Autistic or ADHD adult in Tacoma or across Washington state, especially someone realizing this about themselves later in life, looking for a neurodivergent-affirming, art-informed therapist who won't pathologize the way their brain actually works.

Request a session or start an intake form when you're ready. No artistic skill is required, and no test is coming, session one is simply a conversation about what's brought you here. If you're newly realizing you might be Autistic or ADHD and aren't sure where to start, that uncertainty itself is a completely reasonable place to begin a first session from.