I am not the expert at the front of the room.
I am the woman who has walked this territory — and is still walking it.
After more than three decades as a therapist, what I know is this: the most important thing I bring to this work is not my training, though I have plenty of it. It is that I have lived the transitions I am asking you to face. The marriage that needed reckoning. The relationships I stayed in too long, and the ones I grieved when they showed me their actual size. The long inventory of choices that once looked like mistakes and now look like the exact steps that brought me here.
I did not arrive at this work from the outside. I arrived through my own passage — the spiral kind, the non-linear kind, the kind that doesn't resolve neatly and doesn't need to.
What I offer is not a hierarchy. I will not sit across from you as the one who has it figured out. I will sit beside you, as someone who knows this territory from the inside — its darkness, its unexpected openings, the moments when the body knows before the mind catches up.
You are not behind. You are exactly where your life has brought you. And this is where we begin.