Many of us live as though anxiety is our own worst enemy, terrorizing us from within. But she is tragically misunderstood. Anxiety was always meant to be friend, not foe, using her superpowers to sense for danger, signal to us her concerns, and save us when truly necessary. But she needs our help finding her place within us and her role in our lives. When we learn to receive her value and guide her strengths, she learns to trust in our leadership, dissolving the struggle that once held us captive.

The cherished role of mother can feel so important and so big that we can’t possibly do it justice. And within our modern socially-constructed paradigm of motherhood, you’re right, we can’t. But instead of trying to outrun your perceived not-good-enoughness to win a rigged game, let’s deconstruct the parts that aren’t possible and don’t fit. Let’s embrace who you are and all the gifts you have to offer to grow into a radiant version of motherhood that harmoniously honors your needs alongside your children’s.

While the heart of parenting can seem simple, the practice often proves more challenging, especially when we are one of the brave souls attempting to parent in a more evolved way than we were parented. Our lovely intentions and philosophies can get lost in the daily struggles of living a real life in the practical world with the messiness of humanity. But we can align your actions with your values. You can learn how to show up as the parent you want to be—the parent your child needs. Small shifts can yield seismic results.

Connection, the place where one perfectly imperfect being meets another, holds both the most bitter challenges and sweetest rewards. The triggers we experience in our relationships provide the invitations we need to heal our wounds and the failures we experience in our relationships provide the invitations we need to learn new skills. When you learn those skills of conscious connection, you bring ease and peace to all the relationships that touch your life.

Significant life transitions can feel existentially painful and practically disorienting. We might be ripe for meaningful evolution, but that’s only because grief has broken us down into pieces on the floor. The vulnerability that characterizes these moments of uncomfortable growth softens and opens us in profound ways. The support of a skilled guide at these crossroads can be the difference between feeling lost and feeling found. If you are navigating a significant milestone, identity shift, or lifestyle change, do so with the support you need to consciously curate a new narrative and a new normal in which you can thrive.

When we experience pain that exceeds our capacity to hold, that version of us is preserved in time, waiting to be saved and restored. We can collect this part, metabolize the experience, and integrate her into our more expansive self—we can set her free. Experienced in supporting childhood trauma, sexual trauma, perinatal trauma, and religious trauma.

The pain of losing someone we love is so deep and pervasive that it can feel as though our very cells are losing their cohesion. We are forced to make sense of who we are in a world without them and how we go on living within this new reality. We can be brought to our knees processing all that was left unhealed between us while nearly drowning in all the emotions bursting out of us trying to reach them. Even when relationships are complicated, the season of grief after the loss of an important person in your life is an essential window for healing that can be the difference between a festering wound or a beautiful scar.

The experience of parenting a trans child in this place and time presents an abundance of invitations for growth—some unique and significant challenges and gifts. Within a steadfast commitment to accepting, supporting, and affirming gender divergent children, can lie a complex experience of emotional reorientation, community advocacy, and social, medical, and legal transitioning. Parents benefit tremendously from being held within a safe and knowledgeable space for their essential role in this journey. I am also happy to provide required letters of support for gender affirming medical care.

Making a counter cultural educational choice can feel isolating and heavy, even if we are confident in the rightness of that choice for our children. Therapeutic support from a knowledgeable insider creates a sense of safety and understanding that’s needed to get to the heart of your struggles. Plus, therapy is beautifully aligned with the holistic and lifelong learning philosophy you seek to embrace within your quality homeschooling.

This empirically-supported and action-oriented approach will be the foundation of our work together. ACT aims to increase your psychological flexibility by accepting your thoughts and feelings without judgment and focusing on living a life aligned with your personal values. We open up and make space for the hard stuff instead of trying to control or avoid it, which frees you up to take meaningful steps toward your goals.