Welcome! Please read on if you’d like to know a little about my story and why I’m passionate about helping others dealing with chronic illness.
I endured undiagnosed Lyme disease for years before finally getting diagnosed and treated. My story is unfortunately similar to so many— I’d seen multiple doctors, running a gamut of tests, before anyone thought of testing for Lyme and co-infections. By the time I was diagnosed, it had pervaded my nervous system, brain, muscles, joints, gut, and endocrine system.
Already a practicing psychotherapist when I received the diagnosis, I began bringing my own direct experience of the illness and it’s neuropsychiatric effects into my clinical understanding and diagnostic framework with clients. I am spreading the news about the impact of neuroinflammation on mental health. In some individuals this inflammation is the result of pathogens like Lyme and Bartonella, mold toxicity, PANS/PANDAS, and/or other infections. Neuroinflammation may present like debilitating treatment-resistant depression, panic attacks, bipolar disorder, OCD, anxiety, psychosis, rage, brain fog, seizures, tremors, and many more physical symptoms (Neil Nathan, MD, 2018).
If you suffer from Lyme disease or another chronic illness, I provide an attuned and safe space for you to explore and discover through body, mind, and soul, what is needed to aid and support your healing journey. Sessions may include limbic retraining toward safety in the nervous system, exploring and shifting conscious and unconscious belief patterns which may be interfering with healing/health, and IFS/parts work for healing deeper historical/childhood trauma. I am here to offer compassion, hope, and support, and to act as a guide to healing the medical trauma.
Suffering is an invitation toward deep self-compassionate presence.