Heal from the Lasting Impact of an Invalidating Childhood
If you grew up feeling unseen, misunderstood, or responsible for everyone else’s emotions, you may still be carrying those experiences today.
Perhaps you struggle to trust yourself, long for relationships that feel safe, or wonder why years of personal growth haven’t brought the ease you’re looking for. You’re not broken – your mind and body adapted to help you survive. I specialize in helping adults heal from developmental trauma and the lasting impact of invalidating childhoods, including growing up with a parent with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Through compassionate relationships, embodied practices, and transformative learning, healing is possible.
I Believe We Heal in Relationship
Since 2003 I’ve been in the healing world, devoted to understanding what truly helps people heal from the lasting impact of invalidating childhoods and developmental trauma.
I developed ReParentive® Therapy to bring together the approaches I’ve found most transformative: mindfulness, nervous system regulation, somatic awareness, relational healing, and experiential learning.
But more than any particular technique, I’ve learned this: Healing happens when we experience the safety, compassion, and authentic connection that so many of us longed for growing up.
Whether we’re working together one-on-one, in my healing community, or through professional training, my hope is always the same: to create spaces where people feel deeply seen, understood, and supported as they reconnect with themselves.
How We Can Work Together
Growing Ourselves Whole
A transformational group experience for adults healing from invalidating childhoods. Together, we’ll explore new ways of relating to yourself and others while practicing the tools, relationships, and nervous system regulation that support lasting change.
Workshops
Accessible, experiential workshops designed to help you better understand the impact of invalidating childhoods while offering practical tools for healing, self-compassion, and growth.
One-on-One Support
I offer short-term one-on-one coaching for adults healing from invalidating childhoods, as well as a limited number of in-person psychotherapy appointments for California residents seeking deeper support in healing developmental trauma and building healthier relationships.
For Therapists
Deepen your understanding of developmental trauma and invalidating childhoods through ReParentive® Therapy training.
Learn practical clinical skills while strengthening your own capacity for presence, regulation, and relational healing.
We Don’t Heal in Isolation
One of the most painful consequences of an invalidating childhood is the feeling that you’re alone, and that no one could truly understand what you’ve experienced.
Again and again, I’ve witnessed what becomes possible when people discover they no longer have to carry those stories by themselves.
In safe, compassionate community, shame begins to soften.
The nervous system begins to settle.
Relationships become places of healing rather than survival.
And people begin to experience greater freedom, authenticity, and hope.
Whether you’re just beginning to make sense of your childhood or you’ve been walking a healing path for years, you’re welcome here.
I’d be honored to walk alongside you.
Upcoming Events
Growing Ourselves Whole
Growing Ourselves Whole is a guided healing community for adults recovering from the lasting impact of invalidating childhoods. Through mindfulness, embodied practices, and the power of compassionate relationships, you’ll discover that healing doesn’t have to happen alone.
Growing Ourselves Whole
Growing Ourselves Whole is a guided healing community for adults recovering from the lasting impact of invalidating childhoods. Through mindfulness, embodied practices, and the power of compassionate relationships, you’ll discover that healing doesn’t have to happen alone.
Group participants wanted to share these words:
There’s more space in me for love because the shame is getting smaller.
I wanted for a long time to connect with other people who came from monstrous backgrounds, but who weren’t becoming monsters too. This group helped me find a peace my ancestors couldn’t envision.
I see past the trauma to the person I am.