I’m Valerie, a holistic healer with 20 years of experience in mental health—
long enough to hone my craft—incorporating a variety of mind-body-spirit
practices that move your process, not just let you spin your wheels venting.
I help you achieve true growth you can feel.
I hold safe, nurturing space for all of you—your story, emotions, traumas, body,
and spirit—your whole self. I infuse evidence-based therapies with heart and soul
to help my clients find less suffering and more authenticity, meaning, and
contentment. Supporting you this way supports me in living with love and purpose,
my deepest values.
Even in our darkest times, we have choices.
There is always a path forward, even if it’s hard to see.
Through holistic, personalized therapy with someone who really listens without judging, you’ll learn to:
Connect with your values and sources of true meaning, so they can ground and motivate you in your day-to-day.
Cultivate emotional resilience, so you can cope better with challenging people and experiences, trauma, and change.
Calm your nervous system, so safety and comfort in your body can be a daily experience, even under extreme stress.
Create space for your unique and powerful spirit, longing for freedom from the masks and pace our culture demands.
Working with me might be especially for you if you are:
Grieving an important person, pet, identity within yourself, place, role, or time of life.
Struggling with life transitions in young adulthood, mid-life, elderhood, or end-of-life.
Exploring spirituality in your life, whether you are recovering from spiritual trauma or expanding spiritually.
Called to the adventure and deep healing of psychedelics. I offer ketamine and cannabis-assisted therapy as well as creative arts therapy or psychotherapy to prepare for and integrate personal experiences with any psychedelic medicines.
Neurodivergent and building the inner and outer scaffolding needed to avoid overwhelm and let go of masking, so you can be yourself in a world made for neurotypical folks.
Coping with menopause, the grief and fears of aging, the awful symptoms, and/or stepping into the powerful new energy of this important but under-supported chapter of womanhood.
Craving a creative approach to therapy and open to writing, making art, using a sandtray, or working with the body in sessions.
Find your focal points .
Find your focal points .
My services
-
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Live Your Values. Make Peace with the Present.
ACT is a values-based talk therapy that helps you create meaningful change by increasing psychological flexibility. Through mindfulness, acceptance, and committed action, we work together to quiet the noise of self-doubt, reduce the grip of anxiety or depression, and help you take steps—small or bold—toward the life you want to live.
-
Ketamine & Cannabis-Assisted Therapy
Gentle Medicine. Deep Insight. Lasting Change.
Psychedelic-assisted therapy blends science and spirit to support healing on every level—mind, body, and soul. Whether with fast-acting ketamine or therapeutic cannabis, our 2-hour sessions create space for relief, clarity, and connection. With compassionate guidance, we use these medicines to unlock emotional breakthroughs, reduce chronic symptoms, and reconnect you to what matters most.
-
Expressive Arts Coaching
Healing Beyond Words
Expressive Arts Therapy blends art, writing, music, and Jungian Sandplay to help you process emotions, access insight, and connect to your inner world.
Whether you're feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or searching for clarity, creative expression offers a powerful path to healing that goes beyond traditional talk therapy—no artistic skill required, just a willingness to explore. -
Parts Work Therapy
Meet the Many Sides of You
Parts Work Therapy is a talk therapy that helps you understand and meet the needs of the many “parts” of your Self. Drawing from the Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapeutic modality, parts work helps you untangle inner conflict, heal emotional wounds, and connect with “self energy.” Self-energy allows for a secure inner community, where the Self acts as a loving and supportive parent to all your parts—the strong, centered place inside you that can lead from values with clarity and calm.
-
Somatic Therapy
Connecting Mind, Body, and Emotion
Somatic Therapy integrates body-centered techniques like Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT/tapping), breathwork, mindfulness, and guided visualization to help regulate the nervous system and connect you with your embodied experience.
By tuning into your body’s wisdom, we create a safe space to release tension, heal emotional blockages, and bring your mind and body into alignment for deeper well-being.
Clients say. . .
About Me
I bring over 20 years of experience and training as a therapist—and a whole lot of lived life. With 50 years under my belt, I know that healing comes onlywhen we are safe enough to be our true selves without fear of judgment. With this foundation for authenticity we co-create together, you will find your bravery to practice the hard but healing work of personal change.
I do this work because I was born to do it. There is nothing more authentic or fulfilling to me than using my powers to see deeply into tender hopes and lonely suffering, and building a nurturing relationship where all is welcome.
As a sensitive child, I struggled to find ways to soothe my chronically reactive nervous system, habitually dissociating from the fear, loneliness, and anxiety I often felt by clenching and grinding my teeth, among other somatic behaviors I didn’t yet know were self-soothing means of metabolizing what was affecting me. My mother’s serious cancer when I was 12 further deepened these mechanisms. With one ill parent who couldn’t take care of herself physically or emotionally and the other without understanding of a child’s emotional needs, I unconsciously learned to bury my feelings under chronic muscle tension and longing to be seen and valued by others who would, in my fantasies, truly know me and make me feel emotionally safe.
I watched others and spent a lot of time reflecting on my own feelings. It’s no surprise that at age 12 I knew I wanted to be a psychologist or therapist. At first, I took an academic path into psychology, but after my mother died when I was 24, I left my doctoral program in Clinical Psychology and started a Master’s in Art Therapy, finding the depth and creativity I craved in my work and in my own healing as I worked through the loss of my mother, a longterm relationship, the city I lived in, a career path and professional identity, and the worldview I thought I could count on. I would go on to experience other losses that deepened my dedication to supporting others in grief in a culture that allows little space or compassion for it. The places of deepest pain and deepest growth in our lives light me up with curiosity and purpose.
