Therapy for Therapists, Registered Dietitians, and Helping Professionals
You spend so much time caring for others. You deserve to make room for you, too.
Maybe caring for others has always come naturally to you. You've built a career around it, found meaning in consistently being someone people can count on, and learned to recognize what others need. This is a part of your identity you’re passionate about, proud of, and connected with. But when did you last ask what you need?
When you're focused on someone else's needs, you have a role to fill and something meaningful to do. You know how to be useful and the expectations for showing up in that relationship.
Turning toward your own needs may feel unfamiliar, uncomfortable, or surprisingly difficult.
You might notice that you:
Feel more comfortable supporting someone else than asking for support yourself.
Automatically pressure yourself to anticipate other people's needs while struggling to identify your own.
Feel guilty resting, disappointing someone, or doing something that serves no purpose beyond your own enjoyment.
Hold yourself to high standards and feel responsible for “getting things right,” even when nobody is asking you to.
Find yourself overthinking relationships, conversations, or decisions long after they've ended.
Understand your patterns intellectually but have a hard time doing something different when emotions are involved.
Feel a strong sense of purpose in your work but wonder who you are outside of it.
Turn personal growth into another project to perfect, another thing to understand, or another way to prove you're doing enough.
You don't have to identify with every one of these experiences. And you don't have to be burned out, resentful, or unhappy in your career for your experience to matter.
You’re A Whole Human, Not Just A Helper.
As a therapist, registered dietitian, or helping professional, you likely spend your days listening carefully, thinking relationally, and making space for other people's experiences. You may also spend time reflecting on your own patterns, reading about trauma, or using psychological language to make sense of your life.
That awareness can be valuable, but as you likely know from your own professional work with clients: Understanding "why" you do something doesn't necessarily change how it feels to live it. You can recognize a pattern, understand where it came from, and still find yourself caught in it, unable to make a different choice or find relief. Sometimes, what’s missing isn’t more insight, but a space where you can experience your own emotions, needs, and relationships without having to be the one who understands, supports, or holds everything together.
When you're used to being the person with the knowledge, the insight, or the plan, it can feel surprisingly difficult to let yourself be uncertain. You might find yourself analyzing your feelings instead of experiencing them, searching for the right answer instead of listening to what you want, or telling yourself that you "should" be able to work through your own struggles because you have experience supporting others in doing the same.
In our work together, you don't have to turn yourself into a case study or make every experience an opportunity for growth. You can show up without having the words, the answers, or a clear sense of what you need. You can be contradictory, frustrated, unsure, or simply tired. You get to be a person having an experience, not a professional responsible for making sense of it.
The Value of Having a Space of Your Own
A space to be the one receiving care. As a therapist who seeks therapy myself, I know how profoundly this work can shape us personally and professionally. You deserve support that isn't about becoming a better helper, but about caring for yourself as a whole person.
Room to explore who you are beyond your role. We'll explore how to show up intentionally in your work without losing touch with your own needs, values, relationships, and identity.
A shared language for understanding yourself. We'll find words for your experiences and patterns that you can carry into your relationships, everyday life, and even your work with clients.
Resources that extend beyond our sessions. I love sharing books, podcasts, and ideas that connect with what we're exploring, whether they resonate personally or inform your professional work.
Support from someone who understands the helper role. I understand the expectations that come with caring for others, including the pressure to be self-aware, capable, and emotionally available even when you need support yourself.
How I care for the therapeutic relationship
Your privacy matters. I take confidentiality seriously and thoughtfully consider the complexities of working within overlapping professional communities.
I approach boundaries with care. I actively work to minimize potential dual relationship concerns and navigate any overlap thoughtfully, so our work can remain focused on you.
Therapy is collaborative. I bring curiosity, clinical experience, and perspective, but you remain the expert on your own lived experience. We work together rather than following a predetermined formula.
I practice what I believe in. I continue to seek my own therapy and engage in personal work because I value the self-awareness, humility, and openness it helps me bring to my relationships and clinical work.
You don't have to have it figured out. You can arrive without the right words, a clear goal, or a thoughtful analysis of what's happening. Our work together is collaborative, and I'll support you in stepping outside of the provider role to truly sit in the client seat.
Begin Therapy As A Helping Professional With Me
Ready to make more room for yourself?
Therapy can be a space to step outside the role of the helper, reconnect with your own needs and values, and explore what it means support others without losing touch with yourself.
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