What If It’s Not An Anger Problem? What If You’re Just Empty?
The low, hollow thrum of a heavy drumbeat echoes in a room that feels slightly too small. Your chest tightens in tandem with the rhythm. You can feel a sharp, buzzing heat rising toward your throat, turning the air in your mouth dry and metallic. Every sound—the click of a light switch, the tone of a partner’s question, the hum of the refrigerator—feels like sandpaper against raw skin.
Florence + The Machine’s song "Hunger" carries this exact visceral weight. It captures that breathless, driving restlessness of a system trying to outrun its own emptiness.
Often, when people come into my virtual space, they are exhausted from trying to think their way out of their reactivity. They spend hours dissecting their arguments, parsing their words, and feeling immense shame for being "mean" or "irritable." They treat their emotional volatility as a character defect to be managed or a psychological puzzle to be solved.
But if we drop down below the story and listen to the somatic reality, a different truth emerges.
Your nervous system does not run on good intentions; it runs on biology. In our work together, we look closely at the invisible baseline: your sleep hygiene, your protein intake, your sensory overstimulation, and your absolute capacity. More often than not, the internal narrative of "I am failing at being a patient person" is actually the biological reality of "I am profoundly sleep-deprived and under-nourished."
When you are running on empty, your protective system steps in to force a boundary through irritation. It is not a glitch; it is an alarm.
This is precisely why standardized protocols fall short. Standard therapy often focuses purely on cognitive coping skills to suppress the symptom in 50 minutes. In this private-pay sanctuary, we take an unrushed, whole-system approach. We treat you as a complete ecosystem, tracking how your physiological capacity directly dictates your emotional boundaries, giving your protectors permission to finally stop fighting a war they cannot win.
Ready to trade the endless exhaustion of analyzing your moods for the kindness of meeting your body's true needs?
I provide 100% virtual, neuro-affirming somatic therapy for adults across Minnesota who are ready to move from a place of chronic biological exhaustion into a life of embodied, values-aligned peace.
About the Clinical Approach
My work is rooted in a somatic, trauma-informed perspective that honors the body as the primary site of healing. I integrate Internal Family Systems (IFS) to facilitate self-leadership, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for nervous system regulation, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help you align with your deepest values. As a neuro-affirming therapist, I do not pathologize your lived experience; instead, I hold space for the unique, often non-linear ways your system has learned to survive. My practice is intentionally private-pay, ensuring that your care is unique, unrushed, and entirely free from the constraints of insurance labels or standardized protocols. We work together as humans—not as "expert" and "patient"—to build a sustainable path toward peace that honors your capacity, your autonomy, and your humanity.
