My Story

My journey to becoming a trauma therapist was a long and winding one. I started off my career in accounting as a CPA; at the time I didn’t know it, but most of my life up until that point was built on my own trauma responses. It wasn’t until I started doing my own work in therapy that I became aware of how my childhood trauma was impacting my life and choices.

As part of my journey to self discovery, I took a leap out of accounting and into the helping field in 2018 when I started a nutrition coaching practice with a local registered dietitian. I quickly found out two things:

1. that I loved helping clients better themselves and improve their lives, and

2. what was really holding my clients back wasn’t knowledge, a lack of good habits, or a lack of “discipline” - it was the impact of emotions, mental health, and trauma.

As someone who is always on a quest to provide better help and support to my clients, my journey took me back to school to become a therapist, where I right away began to focus my specialization on childhood trauma and disordered eating. As my journey to becoming a therapist unfolded, I also came to find myself pivoting away from where I had started as a coach (weight loss) and took a dive into intuitive eating (IE) and weight neutrality to work on my own relationship with food, movement, and my body. I now proudly espouse both intuitive eating and a weight neutral approach to health in my work with clients, and I strive to help my clients heal both their childhood trauma and also dieting, food, and body image related trauma.