Therapy for People Who Think Deeply, Experience Life Differently, and Have Struggled to Feel Understood

Individual therapy for highly sensitive and gifted adults when the life you built no longer works

Many of the people I work with have always lived with a rich, intense inner world.

Some experience the world with unusual depth and sensitivity, noticing emotional and relational patterns that others often overlook.

Others grew up in their minds—reading early, thinking quickly, analyzing instinctively—often because it was the safest place to live.

And many carry both a fast-moving mind and a complex inner world.

Along the way, you may have learned to rely on competence, self-awareness, achievement, or self-control while keeping other parts of yourself carefully managed.

You may have been described as “mature,” “gifted,” “intense,” or “too sensitive,” while quietly feeling different from the people around you in ways that were difficult to explain.

Even when outwardly capable, many people I work with carry a persistent sense of disconnection—from themselves, from other people, or from a life that no longer feels fully their own.

If this feels familiar, you’re not alone.

When the life you built no longer feels like yours

People often come to me in moments when life stops making sense—when the story they’ve lived no longer matches the story unfolding.

Sometimes the shift is sudden:

• a breakup or divorce you didn’t see coming
• career burnout that hits hard
• a diagnosis that rearranges everything
• a loss that reshapes your world—of a person, a relationship, or a version of life you counted on
• a moment when you realize you can’t keep going the way you have

Other times, the change is quieter:

• Everything I built is falling apart. My life no longer fits.
• I’m questioning beliefs I never thought I’d question.
• I’ve spent my life being what others needed. Now I don’t know who I am.
• It feels like falling down a rabbit hole. I don’t know which way is up.
• I feel like I’m unraveling.

Some describe it as hiking in earthquake country; the ground itself is shifting under your feet.

You don’t have to navigate it alone.

A space for people who never fit the template

The people I work with often describe themselves as:

• gifted or high-ability adults
• highly sensitive persons (HSPs)
• former “gifted kids” who learned to make themselves smaller
• analytical thinkers told they’re “too in their head”
• people who often feel like outsiders, even among their own
• individuals living in the in-between: no longer who they were, not yet who they’re becoming

You might recognize yourself in phrases like:

• “I’ve always felt different, not in a bad way, just . . . different.”
• “I don’t feel connected to peers the way other people seem to.”
• “I’m good at many things, so choosing one feels impossible.”
• “People think I’m put-together, but inside I feel lost.”
• “My worth has always been tied to achievement.”
• “I’m comfortable in my mind, but the rest of me feels harder to access.”
• “I’ve never really known how to just be myself without editing.”

And this includes fellow therapists—people who spend so much of their lives supporting others that they need a place where they can finally be supported, seen, and held.

You don’t have to simplify yourself here.
Your depth is welcome.

How I work

My approach blends clarity, depth, and emotional attunement. I draw from:

• The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) — for identity, agency, connection, attachment, and longstanding patterns

• Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) — for trauma, emotional stuckness, and bridging the gap between what you understand intellectually and what your nervous system still carries

• Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) — for depression, existential distress, depth, and meaning-making

• A neurodivergence-affirming lens, honoring sensitivity, intensity, and complexity

• My background in English and computer science, integrating story and system, metaphor and logic

Clients often describe therapy with me as steady, grounding, and spacious,
a place where nothing has to be forced, rushed, or minimized.

You can read more about my background, training, and therapeutic approach on the About page.

Alongside my clinical work, I speak about living a connected, meaningful life without a prewritten script, especially after religion. See where I’ve spoken.

Cancer Survivorship Support

As a 20-year breast cancer survivor, I also offer support for people navigating survivorship and the emotional landscape that follows treatment.

A note about availability

I am currently on sabbatical and not accepting therapy clients at this time.

I plan to reopen in private practice in January 2027. If you’d like to be notified when scheduling becomes available, you’re welcome to join the contact list.