I help high-achieving adults with complicated mental health histories (including depression, bipolar, ADHD) let go of shame and learn to thrive through compassionate, no-BS online therapy that meets them where they are.
It’s more than a bad week. And it’s not new. You’ve survived things people don’t talk about in polite company. Perhaps a diagnosis that changed how others saw you. Maybe a hospitalization that you now speak about with a half-joke and change the subject. Years of functioning that cost more than anyone knows.
You’ve done the work. And you’re still here.
But the weight hasn’t lifted.
And the shame? It’s still lurking, asking unhelpful questions like “Shouldn’t you be past this by now?”
Therapy can help. Especially when it’s not pretending you’re fragile. You don’t need a gold star. You need a place where you can stop pretending you’re fine. When therapy makes room for the whole messy truth, you don’t have to keep managing it alone.
You’re not chasing a magic fix. (You’ve probably tried a few already.) What you really want is to feel like yourself, maybe for the first time. To trust your brain. To tell your story without being labeled “too much.” And to stop wondering if your therapist is secretly uncomfortable.
Real healing starts when you’re seen as a person, not a problem.
Therapy with me gives you room to speak your truth. No flinching, no apologizing. You get to bring the contradictions: ambitious and burned out, capable and unraveling, hopeful and terrified. It’s all welcome.
Many of my clients are not new to the mental health system. I work with high-achieving adults who carry heavy mental health histories: bipolar, depression, hospitalizations, medications, misdiagnoses, treatment trauma.
My job isn’t to “fix” you. It’s to help you feel okay being fully seen. Not by erasing your past, but by untangling it from the shame that wants to dictate your future. Together, we figure out what you need now, not what someone else once decided you should want.
I’m not one of those “uh-huh,” nod-and-smile therapists.
I’m direct. I say what I’m thinking. But I do it with compassion, dry humor, and the occasional goofy metaphor (or magic wand wave, if warranted).
You’re showing up. You’re checking the boxes. Maybe you’ve even managed to rack up a few “Employee of the Month” certificates. But inside, you’re running on fumes. Your brain is both an overachiever and a bully. The lows may be quiet, but they’re brutal, whether you’re drowning in perfectionism, numbing out, or just going through the motions.
Depression isn’t just sadness. It’s a full-body experience.
It’s exhaustion. Disconnection. The sense that you’re watching your life through frosted glass. You don’t have to be depressed “about” something. Depression doesn’t care about logic. But it still shows up. And you can get support that sees you behind the mask.
You’ve ridden the rollercoaster. You’ve lived the consequences. You’ve worked hard to build a life, even when it sometimes feels out of control.
Managing bipolar doesn’t mean squashing your spirit or becoming “boring.”
It’s a highly treatable condition. Therapy can help you recognize your patterns, understand your brain, and define what steadiness looks like for you.
You can have a full life. Therapy can help you find it and reconnect with the parts of you that got buried under the diagnosis.
You were told you needed help, then punished for needing too much. Labeled “treatment resistant” when it was the treatment that didn’t fit. Maybe the hospital saved your life… and scared you half to death.
It’s not your fault. You’re a (very tired) survivor.
Therapy that makes space for your whole story can help you sort through what actually helped, what hurt, and what healing looks like now. On your terms.
This can help you get in touch with the healthy “you” whom I know is in there (we all have one, I promise). It just takes a moment of checking in.
Try this at home (or on the subway, or wherever):
1. Pick one decision today, big or small. What to eat. Whether to text back. Whether you actually want to go to that thing you said yes to three weeks ago.
2. Before you act, pause and ask: Do I want this? Or do I just think I’m supposed to?
No pressure to change your answer. Just notice who’s steering the ship. Is it present-you? Panic-you? Some internalized voice from 2014? Just notice. That’s it. Now go about your day.
I’ve worked in community clinics, substance use programs, hospitals, and LGBTQ+ health centers. I’ve sat with people mid-crisis, mid-recovery, and in the messy middle. I’ve seen a lot.
This isn’t just theory.
It’s lived, learned, and practiced. I offer therapy that honors the dignity of your full humanity. Not because you have to earn it, but because it was always yours to begin with.
I show up with skill, humor, and a fierce respect for your autonomy. We collaborate. You get to lead. I don’t get spooked by your inner demons. Actually, I can help you bring them into the light (when you decide it’s time).
I know how to sit with you in the pain and I will help you through it.
A client told me, “I’m just spinning my wheels and taking up space.” In our work, you get to take up all the space you need with rage, brilliance, fear, grief… whatever shows up. (Yes, it’s virtual space. But the healing doesn’t care about geography.)
