Our Story

I didn't arrive at this work through a straight line. Before I became a therapist, I spent years trying to understand why certain moments in life feel so heavy and others so quietly alive. That question led me through graduate school, through my own therapy, and eventually into a room across from another person, listening.

What I found is that healing rarely looks the way we expect it to. It's not always a breakthrough or an epiphany. More often, it's a slow returning to yourself, a willingness to sit with what's actually here rather than what you think should be. I believe deeply in the power of presence, in what happens when someone is truly witnessed without being fixed. That belief shapes everything about how I work.

I've built my practice here in Knoxville because this place matters to me. There's something grounding about this city, the way the mountains hold the horizon, the way people here still know how to slow down. I wanted to create a space that reflects that quality, unhurried, warm, rooted in something real. Therapy, at its best, isn't separate from the life you're living. It's woven into it.

My approach draws from psychodynamic and somatic traditions. I pay attention to what's happening in the body as much as what's happening in the mind. I work with anxiety, grief, life transitions, and the kind of quiet disconnection that doesn't always have a name but takes up residence anyway. If you're looking for someone who will meet you where you are, without pretense or performance, I'd be glad to talk.