Hi, I’m Lyly (sounds like “Lily”).

I work with individuals and couples navigating anxiety, life transitions, trauma, and the patterns we carry through families and relationships. My work is grounded in Feminist Multicultural Therapy (FMT), so we stay curious about the bigger picture, too: who you are, where you come from, what you’ve been taught, what’s been expected of you, and how those experiences have shaped the way you move through the world.

I have a particular interest in perinatal mental health and couples work across pregnancy, postpartum, and the transition to parenthood. I support people experiencing antepartum and postpartum depression, anxiety, OCD, identity shifts, birth-related trauma, and the emotional complexity that can accompany becoming or expanding a family. With couples, this can also mean tending to changes in communication, intimacy, desire, division of labor, emotional connection, and the enormous adjustment of figuring out who you are to one another while caring for someone new. 

Our work might involve untangling difficult thoughts and emotions, getting curious about the different parts of ourselves that emerge when we feel hurt, afraid, or disconnected, understanding patterns that no longer serve us, or finding ways to reconnect with ourselves and the people we love. I draw from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Mind-Body Bridging, mindfulness, CBT, and DBT, alongside relational and somatic approaches. I’ve also completed Level 1 Gottman Method Couples Therapy training and specialized training in perinatal mental health through Postpartum Support International. Integrative Sex Therapy also informs my work with sexual wellbeing, intimacy, and the ways our relationships with our bodies and partners can shift across different seasons of life.

Outside the therapy room, I wear many hats, including partner, parent to three young hooligans, dog mom, cat mom, and writer. Those roles keep me connected to something I think matters deeply in this work: life is complicated, relationships are complicated, and rarely do our struggles exist in a vacuum.

You deserve therapy that makes room for the fullness of your story, including the parts shaped by identity, culture, relationships, and the world around you.

I currently [ONLY] have openings via telehealth (with Thursday and Friday evenings in-person on a case by case basis).