My Journey
During my graduate training in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, I had the privilege of working with individuals and couples under clinical supervision. Those experiences shaped the way I understand relational work and showed me how much can shift when we slow down enough to become curious about what is actually happening beneath the surface.
Because often, it isn’t just about the relationship.
It’s about the story we’re carrying into it. The way we learned to protect ourselves. What closeness brings up in us. What we do when we feel uncertain, rejected, unseen, or afraid of losing someone. The parts of ourselves we make smaller to stay connected, and the parts we are still learning to trust.
My path into this work has been shaped by both clinical training and lived experience. My own process of self discovery, healing, and emotional growth has taught me the value of staying with discomfort long enough to understand it rather than immediately trying to escape it. It has taught me that self awareness is not about having everything figured out. It is about becoming honest enough with ourselves to notice what is true.
Through therapy, study, and ongoing inner work, I’ve come to see relationships as one of the places where our deepest patterns become visible. They can bring us face to face with our attachment patterns, our boundaries, our desires, our fears, and the parts of ourselves we may have lost touch with.
And once we can see those patterns, we have a choice.
Heartwork is the space I created for that process.
I work with individuals and couples who want to understand themselves more deeply, create more intentional relationships, and move through change with greater clarity and self trust. My approach is grounded in emotional awareness, attachment, relational insight, curiosity, and honest conversation, while drawing from my graduate training in clinical mental health counseling.
I’m less interested in telling you who you should be or what your relationship should look like. I’m interested in helping you get close enough to your own experience that you can hear yourself clearly.
Because the goal isn’t to become perfect at relationships.
It’s to become more fully yourself within them.
FAQs
Who is Heartwork for?
Heartwork supports both individuals and couples moving through relational transitions, identity shifts, and patterns that shape how they experience love and connection. Individuals come to understand themselves more deeply and shift relational dynamics, while couples come to strengthen communication, regulate emotions together, and rebuild connection with more awareness and care.
What issues do you address?
I support individuals and couples in understanding the relational patterns that shape how they connect with themselves and others. Our work often centers on communication, boundaries, nervous system awareness, and identity, helping you build relationships that feel more grounded, conscious, and emotionally connected.
How long are sessions?
Sessions typically last 50 minutes, allowing enough time to go deep while staying focused and intentional.
Are sessions online or in-person?
All sessions are held online for accessibility and comfort. If you are located in Portland, Oregon and are interested in meeting in person, we can discuss potential options.
How do I start?
You can reach out through the contact section at the bottom of this page or click the booking button below to schedule a consultation.
What makes Heartwork different?
Heartwork bridges evidence-informed relational understanding with intuitive, heart-centered guidance. Rooted in my graduate training in counseling and supervised clinical experience with individuals and couples, this work brings together emotional awareness, nervous system understanding, and relational insight. It is offered within a therapeutic and/or coaching framework focused on deepening self-trust, emotional resilience, and the capacity for conscious connection. What makes Heartwork different is its emphasis on how patterns are not just understood, but experienced, felt, and transformed through awareness and relationship.