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For those who sense there’s something deeper than talk therapy can reach — and are ready to find out what it is.
Developmental Trauma · NARM®
“You can name your attachment style. You've mapped your childhood. You're still living inside the same patterns.”
NARM® therapy works with patterns that started early — the people-pleasing, the perfectionism, the guilt — without making you relive the past. We work with what's happening now, so change actually holds.
Learn More →Somatic Work
“Your mind understands everything. Your body didn't get the memo.”
Somatic therapy works with the body, not just the story. Using Somatic Experiencing® methods, we help your nervous system finally release the stress it has been holding — gently, and at your pace.
Learn More →ADHD in Adults
“Everyone thinks you have it together. Only you know what it costs to look that way.”
Support for adults with ADHD who are exhausted from holding it all together. We address the anxiety and shame underneath — and build rhythms that don't rely on white-knuckling.
Learn More →Body Image & Food
“Your body is changing faster than anyone prepared you for — and no one's talking about the feelings part.”
For anyone whose relationship with food or their body has gotten complicated — including alongside GLP-1 medications. Not eating disorder treatment; making peace with a changing body.
Learn More →A Place to Start
“You say yes when you mean no. You're tired of meeting everyone but yourself.”
You don't need a diagnosis or a perfect explanation to reach out. Start with the patterns further down this page — if one of them stops you, that's information worth following.
See the Patterns →You’re fluent in your own patterns. You can name your triggers and explain your history in language your last therapist would applaud. And yet here you are — still bracing, still performing, still carrying something the explanations never reached.
What you’re sensing is real. Some change doesn’t live in the story you tell about your life. It lives in your nervous system — in the survival strategies you built so long ago they feel like personality. That’s the level where I work.
Early relationships taught your nervous system how to survive. NARM® works with the patterns those lessons left behind — not by re-living what happened, but by reconnecting you with the adult agency underneath the old strategies.
Your body holds the unfinished story of every stress it has carried. Using the principles and methods of Somatic Experiencing®, we track and release what’s stored in your nervous system — gently, at your pace, without retelling anything you don’t want to.
ADHD in adults — and especially in women — hides behind competence, perfectionism, and exhaustion. Through a nervous system lens, we look at what your ADHD actually costs you — and build rhythms that don’t depend on white-knuckling.
For anyone whose relationship with their body has gotten complicated — including those navigating GLP-1 medications and the feelings no prescriber warned them about. This is not eating disorder treatment; it’s making peace with a changing body.
These are the patterns I commonly work with. If a single description stops you mid-scroll, that’s information worth paying attention to.
Constantly reading the room, tracking every shift in tone, preparing for things that haven’t happened yet.
In moments that call for your voice, something in you goes quiet. Freeze isn’t weakness — it’s survival.
You’ve built your life around making things smooth for others. Your own wants feel almost illegitimate.
You know exactly what you should do. Something stops you. It’s not laziness — it’s a nervous system in conflict.
The bar keeps moving. Finishing things feels dangerous. The standards you hold yourself to are ones no one else could meet.
You became an expert at managing other people’s emotions to keep yourself safe. It worked then. It costs you now.
I work with people who have already tried to figure this out on their own — smart, capable adults who are tired of just understanding their patterns and are ready to be free of them.
I’m a Licensed Independent Social Worker-Supervisor with a Master’s from Case Western Reserve University, and the only NARM®-certified therapist in Northeast Ohio. My training also includes the principles and methods of Somatic Experiencing®, which means I work where neuroscience, developmental psychology, and the body’s own intelligence meet.
Sessions happen in my Beachwood office — a room designed to feel calm, unhurried, and entirely yours — or over secure video anywhere in Ohio.
We talk about what’s bringing you here and whether my approach fits. No paperwork, no obligation. You’ll know within minutes whether this feels right.
Early sessions are about how your nervous system operates — where it braces, where it collapses, what it’s been protecting you from. You don’t need to arrive with answers.
Some weeks are quiet and steady, some are breakthroughs. Change built this way tends to hold, because it isn’t insight sitting on top of an unchanged nervous system — it’s the system itself learning something new.
Therapy is one of the most personal investments you’ll ever make, and how you pay for it shapes how private it stays. Working privately means no diagnosis on your permanent record, no insurance company reviewing your care, and no session caps deciding when you’re done. We work at the pace your nervous system needs — nobody else’s.
HSA and FSA accepted. A Superbill is provided after each session — many PPO plans reimburse a meaningful portion of out-of-network therapy.
You look fine. You are exhausted. Why high-functioning anxiety hides inside competence, why rest does not fix it, and what nervous system work does differently.
If years of talk therapy left you with insight but the same patterns, you didn’t fail therapy. Some change lives in the nervous system — here’s what works at that level.
NARM® therapy, explained in plain language by the only NARM®-certified therapist in Northeast Ohio: what it is, how it differs from other trauma work, and who it helps.
Whenever you’re ready, I’d love to hear what’s been going on — and help you figure out whether this work is the right next step.
No pressure, no obligation, either way.