“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”

- Rumi
Unfold Your Own Myth

Who I Help

I work with women who over-function, over-give, and have lost their connection to themselves, women navigating self-abandonment, codependency, and the long echo of complex trauma. Most of the women I work with see some part of themselves in one or more of these descriptions:

The woman who has lost herself in caretaking

Have you spent years showing up for everyone else: children, partners, parents, friends? You are probably very competent and capable but also feeling depleted, resentful, and quietly grieving. You may not know what you want anymore, or who you are underneath all the roles you’ve played.

If this is you, you may suspect the way you’ve been living is not the only way. You may not be sure what the alternative looks like, you may feel guilty even considering a change, but you know you can’t keep going like this. It’s not sustainable.

You don’t have to. Let’s write a new story, make a new map, together.

The woman who has done the work and is still tired

Are you insightful, self-aware, and accomplished? Maybe you know the language: attachment styles, triggers, nervous system regulation, fawning. You’ve read the books, listened to the podcasts, even done years of talk therapy. And yet you still find yourself in the same painful patterns: always feeling behind, the repeat-emotionally-unavailable-partner, over-functioning at work and in relationships, the exhaustion that no to-do list, no amount of analysis, no amount of being better, seems to fix.

Are you ready to stop understanding your patterns and finally leave them behind? If you crave getting out of your head and into your body, even if it feels scary, I have a lantern ready for you.

The woman who is ready to come home to herself

You are resilient, self-aware, and overly-accountable in your relationships. You’ve partly come by these traits spending too much time surviving things you should never have had to experience. Now hustle culture makes your stomach turn, you’re so done with self-improvement projects, and done with making yourself smaller to fit into rooms or relationships that don’t give you the space to just exist. You might even call yourself intuitive, empathic, or witchy, not as an aesthetic, but as a reclamation. You yearn to rebel against expectations of being palatable, nice, and warm, not for shock value or rebellion’s sake, but to come home to yourself.

If you’re dreaming of a life lived truthfully, fully, freely, fantasizing about being the main character in your own life, let’s rebel together.

What does 'Women' Mean?

When I say I work with women, I mean anyone who claims that word for themselves: cis women, trans women, nonbinary and genderfluid people, women of every age, race, body, orientation, faith, and stage of life. The concerns I help clients with show up across all of those lines, and so does the need to return home to yourself.

Near the Wild Hedge is a refuge. You are welcome here.

If any of these women are recognizable to you, even partially, you are in the right place.

I Help Women Who Are…

  • Recovering from breakup or divorce

  • Healing from attachment trauma, betrayal, or relationships that were toxic or abusive

  • Feeling stuck in a relationship, romantic or otherwise, that feels painful but aren’t sure how to leave, or if they want to

  • Cycling through the same painful dating dynamics, repeat ‘situationships’ with emotionally unavailable partners

  • Navigating life transitions and feeling lost

  • Suffocating in familial roles and obligations they yearn to escape

  • Grieving lost years, lost parts of themselves, or the loss of the life they thought they’d live

  • Trying to do it all: career, motherhood, partnership, family…

  • Navigating the shifting sense of self and symptoms that come with menopause in all its stages

And Living With…

  • Burnout

  • Social and general anxiety

  • Codependency

  • Perfectionism and over-functioning

  • Low self-esteem

  • Anxious attachment and relationship anxiety

  • Relationship compulsions

  • Rumination

  • Self-criticism

  • Guilt

  • Shame

  • Anger

  • Hypervigilance

  • People-pleasing

  • Self-abandonment

  • Existential grief

But Who Want to…

  • Set boundaries that hold

  • Become embodied

  • Find peace

  • Experience more freedom and joy

  • Remember who they used to be

  • Release shame and guilt

  • Reclaim their story

  • Heal their nervous system

  • Stop people-pleasing

  • Stop shrinking and start taking up space

  • Say no more

  • Put themselves first without guilt

  • Rest, play, and receive without earning it

  • Rediscover the parts of themselves that have been hidden or shamed

  • Become the main character in their own life

  • Rewrite their life story

  • Release what is no longer theirs

  • Live as their authentic selves, fully and without apology

Ready When You Are

My Philosophy

My approach is grounded in the belief that healing happens, first and foremost, through safe connection, with others and with ourselves. I offer the safety and attunement needed to sit with those hard questions: Why does this keep happening to me? When will I feel better? Who am I? Is it safe to show up as myself? What is my purpose?

I believe the past lives in the present, in our bodies, unconscious beliefs, patterns, and relationships. I help you explore those echoes of the past with curiosity and compassion, rather than shame, because shame doesn't heal. Safety does.

You carry an innate well of intuitive wisdom within you. And no part of you is broken. By attuning deeply with your intuition and your lost and wounded parts, you reconnect with your original Self, before you learned your adaptive responses and beliefs. Being human is messy, and often painful, but through reclaiming the Self, your own unique story of meaning and purpose can emerge from the struggle.

And your struggle isn't only personal. Many women, specifically, are taught to shrink, to please, to mistake self-abandonment for love. Reclaiming your voice and your right to take up space isn't indulgent. It's reclamation, and it’s your right.

I blend clinical theory and over a decade of experience with creative expression, metaphor, story, archetype, and connection, trusting that your path inward will ultimately expand you outwardly, leading to greater freedom, authenticity, and joy.

Healing isn't linear. It’s cyclical and, if we’re lucky, ongoing. Yes, it can be challenging at times, but also expansive, awe-inspiring, and truly sacred.

And that is how I view our work together, as a sacred privilege. I walk alongside you, as a guide, a cheerleader, and a fellow explorer. I lend the safety and support needed in a healing journey that does more than just soothe your pain. It transforms you into your fullest, most expansive self.

My practice is grounded in an integrative theoretical framework drawing from attachment, existential-humanistic, psychodynamic, and cognitive-behavioral theories, as well as Jungian psychology. I am trauma and polyvagal-informed and incorporate somatic, internal family systems, and feminist concepts and interventions throughout my practice. My work is not trauma stabilization treatment; I specialize in post-stabilization, depth-oriented work for clients who are ready to explore relational patterns, identity, and meaning beyond crisis-level symptoms. EMDR and trauma treatment are outside my scope of practice. If I determine your level of care needs require working with a certified trauma specialist, I will refer you to a qualified provider.

Decades of research on complex trauma recovery, attachment, and identity-level change converge on something: healing is not the work of one approach; it is the work of many, integrated.

The nervous system requires safety. Grief must move through the body. Anger needs a voice. Boundaries have to be built and held. The self must be expressed and returned to. Play and joy must have permission, not as an earned reward, but as a basic human need.

These are the rites of healing. We cross the hedge, go into the woods with lanterns in hand, and move through these rites, together.

The Rites of Healing

Safety

The rite: I am safe. A nervous system stuck in survival cannot heal, no matter how skilled the therapy. Research on polyvagal theory, somatic experiencing, and trauma-informed care all confirm what your body has always known: regulation comes first. We work with breath, with grounding, with co-regulation, with the small rituals that signal this time is different.

Assertiveness & Boundaries

The rite: I can trust myself. This is the structural work. The capacity to know what is yours and what is not, what is yes and what is no, where you end and another begins. This is the area of my deepest specialization, and the place where research on assertiveness training, attachment, and codependency comes most directly into practice.

Grief

The rite: I can honor what I have lost. Most women I work with are carrying grief they have not yet allowed themselves to name. For the childhood they didn't get. For the years spent self-abandoning. For the relationships that couldn't be what they needed. Research is clear that grief, fully felt, is not optional.

Radical Self-Expression

The rite: I can just be and I can be – me. Saying it out loud, claiming what is yours, taking up space in your own life. Research on narrative therapy and identity-level change is consistent here: the story you tell about yourself, in your own words, shapes what becomes possible. Voice is where the work moves from internal repair to external return.

Anger

The rite: I can let myself want, refuse, demand. For women raised to be agreeable, anger is often the most foreign and most necessary territory. Anger that has been swallowed, redirected inward, or never permitted to exist in the first place becomes anxiety, depression, and illness. Research on assertiveness, parts work, and feminist clinical practice all point to the same conclusion: anger is protective.

Play & Joy

The rite: I can let go. Research on post-traumatic growth, on play, on creativity and on embodied pleasure, all points to the same thing: a life you actually you relish is not an indulgence. It is a necessity.

The woman you were meant to be is already waiting.

Ready when you are.

Let’s go find her together.
Rewrite your story.