Confession time. Every summer I tell myself the exact same thing: "I'm not getting invested this season." And every summer, approximately three episodes later, I'm sitting on my couch saying things like, "He's clearly emotionally unavailable," about a man whose primary personality trait appears to be going to the gym. As a therapist, I know reality TV is heavily edited. We don't see the whole story. We don't know these people. I would never diagnose someone through my televis

Finding a therapist is weird. You're essentially scrolling through the internet trying to decide which stranger you're willing to ugly cry in front of. No pressure. Most therapist websites promise the same thing: compassionate, supportive, evidence-based care. And while all of those things matter...they don't tell you what it's actually feels like to sit in the room with someone. So here's the honest version. I'm probably not the right therapist if you're looking for someone

Some of the hardest people you will ever grieve are still here. Nobody really prepares you for that. When someone dies, we understand the rituals of grief. We send flowers. We bring meals. We write sympathy cards. We gather around someone and acknowledge, something terrible happened. There is language for that kind of loss. But what happens when the person you are grieving is still alive? When they are still posting vacation pictures. Still celebrating birthdays. Still living

No one prepares you for how often adulthood quietly punches you in the throat. Not in a dramatic, everything-is-on-fire kind of way.Not always with some huge moment where everything falls apart. Sometimes it’s just one ordinary moment where you stop and realize: Oh. This is not what I thought I signed up for. Because if we’re being honest, most of us were sold a plan. A timeline. A very confident promise that if we worked hard, stayed positive, made good choices, and followed

Every practice has an origin story. This one starts with a refusal. A refusal to rush grief. A refusal to polish pain so it’s easier for other people to sit with. A refusal to treat therapy like a place where you come to be fixed, corrected, or talked out of what you feel. I created Unapologetic Counseling & Wellness for people who are tired of pretending they’re fine, and even more tired of apologizing for not being okay. Why “Unapologetic”? Because so many of the people who

Let’s get one thing out of the way: You are not “too much.” You are not broken. And you don’t need to be shrunk, silenced, or smoothed out to deserve support. Unapologetic Counseling & Wellness exists because too many people have been told—explicitly or subtly- that their grief should be quieter, their needs smaller, their relationships easier, and their healing faster. That’s not how being human works. And here, I am not interested in pretending otherwise. This practice was