I want therapy to be a steady place where you can slow down, get curious about the patterns shaping your life, and reconnect with your own sense of agency. I work with individuals, couples, and adolescents starting at age 12, with particular focus on anxiety, depression, identity exploration, and grief.

Part of my own path includes years as a touring musician and songwriter, which shapes how I think about healing from religious or cultural experiences that didn't leave room for who you actually are. That background also means I understand what it's like to live a nontraditional life that doesn't always make sense to the people around you, which comes up more than you'd expect in work with adolescents and young adults figuring out who they want to be. I'm completing my clinical hours toward full LMFT licensure.

I'm supervised by Dr. Zain Shamoon, PhD, LMFT, an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, which means the clinical decisions I make with adolescent and identity-focused clients are backed by dedicated, credentialed oversight. I work with couples as well, and the same steadiness I bring to a teenager applies just as directly to two adults trying to hear each other clearly again.

I'm a good fit for a teenager or young adult in Tacoma or across Washington state working through religious or cultural trauma, identity questions, or grief, especially if a more conventional therapeutic style hasn't felt like the right fit before.

Request a session or start an intake form when you're ready. If you're a parent booking on behalf of a teenager, feel free to send a question first about how that first session typically works. Music and creative work often come up naturally in my sessions with teenagers and young adults, not as an assignment, just as one more way of getting at what's actually going on underneath.