Attachment-based Therapists in Asheville, NC

I have been involved with mental health and addiction recovery since 2012. My ideal client is someone who is struggling to make sense of their path and is looking to be pushed while being seen. I wish to know you and develop a greater awareness of what makes you unique. Through this process, you can expect to develop a profound sense of meaning and enjoy richer relationships. My style is warm, inquisitive, humorous, and challenging. I focus on the experience that is created between therapist and client and how that pertains to all relationships. I am attachment based, somatic and body oriented, and trauma informed.

Imagine creating the life that you want, where anything is possible and it is created by you. Recovery from addiction and trauma is scary and challenging; growth and change are not only healing and rewarding, but very possible! You don't have to do it alone. I provide a safe, compassionate, and non-judgmental therapeutic environment to help you uncover your deepest healing potential and challenge negative beliefs, while building self-esteem and confidence. I work from an attachment-based lens and utilize various evidence-based modalities including CBT/DBT, SFBT, EMDR, & Mindful Self-Compassion.

Counseling is such meaningful and rewarding work and I am so grateful that I get to do it. My goal is to always be growing as a person right alongside you and to always approach my work with a sense of openness and curiosity rather than judgment. After all, we’re just two humans talking about being human. My hope is that you can learn to further embrace your humanness and leave behind your shame in the process. While talk therapy can be extremely valuable, I recognize that there are some problems that conventional talk therapy can’t quite reach, which is why I typically use a more experiential, trauma-focused approach to counseling.

I work with people who feel overwhelmed--by work, big transitions, relationships, family, life. My approach is gentle, non-judgmental, and deep. I enjoy helping clients become more fully aware of themselves and of the patterns that hold them back in life, and working with them to feel more grounded and connected with themselves and with others. Many of my clients are people who are in helping professions or caretaking roles. Many are women or non-binary individuals, and are longing to feel more at home in their own skin and more confident in their own strength, beauty, and wisdom.

I am dedicated to working with people who want to get at the root of their life suffering and emotional distress. The quality of the relationship between you and therapist is the critical factor in any successful therapy. In-Depth psychotherapy work depends upon the growth and development of a collaborative relationship, which supports your becoming aware of the formative aspects of your life not only intellectually, but emotionally also. This awareness is the essential ingredient to any meaningful and lasting change in human beings.