Your Brain Isn’t Broken — The World Is.
Brainspotting + depth therapy for highly sensitive, neurodivergent humans navigating trauma, chronic illness + burnout in a world that often feels chaotic, overwhelming, or out of alignment.
psychotherapy for sensitive humans in Maine, North Carolina, and South Carolina
What if your symptoms aren’t dysfunction — but signals from a nervous system trying to survive an incoherent world?
Is this work for you?
You may be here because your nervous system has been on high alert for as long as you can remember.
Maybe you grew up noticing emotional undercurrents others ignored. You felt deeply, thought intensely, and sensed patterns that others dismissed. In environments that couldn't tolerate that level of awareness, you may have learned to shrink, numb out, intellectualize your feelings, or overfunction just to get through.
You might identify with — or carry diagnoses such as — CPTSD, AuDHD, or OCD. Your mind may be perceptive and analytical, while your nervous system remains overwhelmed by a world that often wasn't built for the way you experience it.
For many who find this work, the body carries its own story too. Chronic illness, medical procedures, dismissal, misdiagnosis, or years of unexplained symptoms can leave the nervous system braced for danger. You may live with hEDS, MCAS, autoimmune disease, long COVID, mold-related illness, or another medically complex condition — and know the exhaustion of trying to be understood by systems that haven't always understood your body.
From a depth-oriented perspective, these experiences aren't simply symptoms to eliminate. They may be meaningful adaptations — ways your nervous system and psyche learned to survive environments, relationships, and systems that couldn't fully hold you.
And sometimes, you already understand all of this.
You've done the therapy. You know your patterns. You can explain where they came from — and yet something in your body still feels stuck.
Through Brainspotting and depth-oriented therapy, we make space for what insight alone hasn't been able to reach.
Healing rarely happens in straight lines.
It unfolds gradually, returning to the same places with greater awareness and capacity.
It moves in spirals.
This work may be for you if you:
𖦹 Grew up in a family, school, or environment that dismissed your emotions, sensitivity, or difference
𖦹 Identify as AuDHD, OCD, highly sensitive, or neurodivergent — and want a therapist who understands both your mind and your nervous system
𖦹 Notice patterns of overfunctioning, hypervigilance, perfectionism, or carrying responsibility that was never meant to be yours
𖦹 Live with chronic illness or medical trauma, or have experienced dismissal, gaslighting, or loss of trust within the healthcare system
𖦹 Are highly capable, insightful, or professionally accomplished — yet find that understanding yourself hasn't necessarily changed what happens inside your body
𖦹 Feel deeply affected by the world around you and want a way of healing that makes room for your sensitivity, identity, relationships, body, and the systems you live within
This may not be the right fit if you are looking for brief, highly structured, skills-focused therapy.
My Approach
I offer depth-oriented psychotherapy grounded in Brainspotting, relational work, nervous-system awareness, and curiosity about the unconscious.
We aren't only interested in what you're experiencing. We're interested in what it means, where it came from, what your body has learned to protect you from, and what parts of yourself may have been pushed underground in order to survive or belong.
Our work might move between conversation, Brainspotting, attachment exploration, shadow work, somatic awareness, grief, anger, imagery, meaning-making, and the patterns unfolding between you and the world around you.
Therapy here isn't about making you more compliant, productive, palatable, or neurotypical.
It's about becoming more fully yourself.
𖦹 Depth over surface-level coping strategies
𖦹 Nervous-system healing alongside intellectual insight
𖦹 Space to explore difficult emotions with safety, attunement, and trust
𖦹 Attention to family-of-origin wounds, attachment, medical trauma, chronic illness, and other experiences that have shaped how you move through the world
𖦹 A place where your sensitivity, intuition, intensity, and complexity don't need to be minimized
𖦹 Therapy that honors the relationship between psyche, body, nervous system, and the world around you
This work tends to resonate most with people who are looking for something deeper than traditional talk therapy.
This work tends to resonate most with people who are looking for something deeper than traditional talk therapy.
Therapy doesn’t happen outside the world we live in.
I don't believe every experience of anxiety, exhaustion, overwhelm, or burnout should be reduced to individual pathology.
We live within systems shaped by capitalism, ableism, patriarchy, racism, heteronormativity, productivity culture, and other structures that profoundly affect our nervous systems, relationships, bodies, and sense of self.
Therapy here isn't about making you better at tolerating conditions that are hurting you. We can explore both your inner world and the world acting upon it — without reducing everything to either one.
My Specialties
𖦹 Neurodivergence + High Sensitivity
ADHD, autism, AuDHD, OCD, masking, sensory overwhelm, emotional intensity, rejection sensitivity, giftedness, justice sensitivity, burnout, and the experience of moving through the world with a nervous system that notices and feels a lot.
𖦹 CPTSD + Complex Trauma
Attachment wounds, emotional neglect, parentification, family-of-origin trauma, chronic shame, hypervigilance, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and survival patterns that continue long after the original environment has changed.
𖦹 Brainspotting + Depth Psychotherapy
For people who understand themselves deeply but still feel stuck in patterns that insight alone hasn't shifted. I integrate Brainspotting with attachment work, somatic awareness, shadow exploration, relational psychotherapy, and curiosity about the unconscious.
𖦹 Chronic Illness + Medical Trauma
Autoimmune and chronic illness, hEDS, MCAS, chronic pain, medically complex or unexplained symptoms, difficult diagnostic journeys, medical gaslighting, repeated procedures, and the psychological impact of living in a body that hasn't always felt safe or understood.
𖦹 Motherhood, Matrescence + Birth Trauma
Birth trauma, postpartum identity shifts, motherhood without having been adequately mothered, ambivalence, rage, grief, nervous-system overload, complicated mother-daughter relationships, and the profound psychological transition of becoming a parent.
𖦹 Therapy for Therapists + Professionals
Therapists, healthcare professionals, academics, creatives, entrepreneurs, and other highly insightful people who are accustomed to understanding, analyzing, and holding complexity — often for everyone else — while carrying a great deal privately.
𖦹 Identity, Belonging + Queer-Affirming Therapy
Queer identity, sexuality, gender exploration, chosen family, family rejection, internalized shame, identity transitions, and becoming more fully yourself in environments that may have asked you to shrink.
𖦹 Burnout, Overfunctioning + Existential Distress
Chronic over-responsibility, perfectionism, caregiver fatigue, productivity pressure, collapse after years of functioning, disillusionment with work or larger systems, existential anxiety, and the sense that the way you've been living is no longer sustainable.
𖦹 Relationships + Attachment
Fear of abandonment, difficulty trusting, anxious or avoidant patterns, boundary struggles, relational trauma, repeating familiar dynamics, and learning how to remain connected to yourself while being connected to others.
What is Brainspotting?
Sometimes you understand exactly why you feel the way you do — and your body still hasn't gotten the memo.
Brainspotting is an experiential, brain-body psychotherapy that uses visual focus and mindful attention to internal experience. I often integrate it into depth therapy when talking about something no longer seems to be enough.
It can be especially appealing to highly analytical, neurodivergent, highly sensitive, or trauma-experienced people who want room for processing that isn't entirely verbal or linear.
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