Hi, I’m Allison.

LCSW #149.024650 | PMH-C #PSI5247 | she/her/hers

 I’m a licensed clinical social worker with over 15 years of experience supporting people in caregiving, healing, and helping roles. I work with folks navigating trauma, burnout, identity shifts, loss, and the impossible task of showing up for others while trying to stay intact yourself.

I’m certified in perinatal mental health (PMH-C) and have supported dozens of clients through abortion, fertility challenges, postpartum mood disorders, pregnancy and infant loss, and the disorienting process of becoming a parent. And I’ve found that the same themes- unrealistic expectations, self-sacrifice, isolation- run deep in the lives of all caregivers, not just parents.

In our work together, I bring a trauma-informed, politicized, and relational lens. My approach integrates EMDR, parts work, somatics, attachment theory, identity context, and nervous system literacy. It’s not one-size-fits-all, it’s grounded, collaborative, and built to move at the pace of your capacity. We get curious together about how you’ve learned to navigate the world. We name what’s real. We let humor into the room. We build the kind of therapy relationship that can hold your whole truth, not just the polished parts.

My Values

  • You weren’t meant to compartmentalize your life, and I won’t do that in our work together either. Your story, your body, your history, your politics, your identity, your relationships, they all show up in the room. Therapy with me is about making space for the full truth of who you are. We might draw from your nervous system, your family lineage, your spiritual life, your rage, your dreams- whatever feels relevant and real. 

  • There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to being a human. And there’s no single path to healing. I view therapy as an inherently creative process- one where we experiment, imagine, adapt, and make meaning together. We don’t just work to “fix” what’s broken. We get curious about what you want to build. Whether it’s a new relationship with yourself, a different way of parenting, or a version of rest you’ve never been allowed before, we’ll shape the work around your values, your desires, and your inner wisdom.

  • You don’t have to perform in this space. You don’t have to make it palatable, pretty, or polite. I welcome the mess, the contradictions, the parts you think are too much. And I’ll show up as a full person, too: honest, direct, and sometimes a little irreverent. I won’t pretend to have all the answers. But I will sit with you in the questions. I trust that you already carry so much of what you need, and my job is to help you access it, not impose my version of healing onto you.

  • Our suffering doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and neither does our healing. I practice from a trauma-informed, anti-oppressive framework that names the real forces at play: capitalism, white supremacy, ableism, gendered expectations, colonization, and all the systems that disconnect us from ourselves and each other. Therapy with me isn’t about adjusting to a broken world. It’s about finding ways to live, relate, and heal that honor your humanity- and move us closer to collective freedom. As my teacher Shawna Murray-Browne says, “Freedom is individual, liberation is in the collective.” That’s the work.

At this point in my practice, I prioritize longer-term work. I may not be the best fit for someone looking for brief, solution-focused therapy, or a therapist who stays silent in the face of harm. I’m not a healer or a blank slate. I’m a real person with clinical depth, a sharp bullshit meter, and a strong belief in your wholeness.

I believe:

That therapy can be a space of repair, reclamation, and reimagining.

It’s a place to honor your complexity, trust your nervous system, and name the cultural and systemic conditions that impact your wellbeing. Healing doesn’t require fixing who you are—it requires refusing to carry what’s not yours.

In your wholeness and the value of your care.

Your pain makes sense, your values deserve support, and you shouldn’t have to choose between being of service and being well. Caregiving is essential work, and healers need to be resourced, grounded, and sustained.

The systems, not you, are often at fault.

You’re responding to conditions that demand overwork, dissociation, and depletion. Therapy can help you process these pressures and reclaim agency, clarity, and a sense of safety in a world that often denies both.

Healing can be relational, honest, and expansive.

You deserve alignment in work and relationships, a nervous system that can rest, and permission to feel your full range of emotions. Therapy can be a space to do this work without going it alone, and a space to hold the whole truth of your experience.

Let’s work together

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