Career Motivations

I grew up surrounded by resilience. With a mother working in healthcare and a father in a paper factory, I saw firsthand the grit and perseverance it takes to show up every day. That shaped me — I always felt called to help others, but I also wanted to have lived experience to truly understand the weight people carry.

Life gave me that experience.

Through being adopted, having chronic health conditions and the experience of losing many loved ones over time, I learned early what it feels like when you are misunderstood. I watched those I love navigate grief with little support, and I felt the quiet isolation of carrying things that had no place to go. Later, in my HR career, I walked alongside people through every stage of life, holding space for struggles often hidden behind professional walls.

Therapy became the right path.

Those experiences made it clear to me that support matters, not just in fleeting moments but in ongoing, compassionate presence. Infertility, illness, loss, and simply the exhaustion of holding it all together are some of many reasons that can make people lose themselves or struggle. Once I began my own therapy journey, I realized it was finally time to follow my dream of supporting others. Becoming a therapist felt less like a choice and more like a calling – the right time to offer a safe, steady space where people feel understood, less alone, and more able to hold onto themselves through it all.