Therapy with Alice
MA, LPC, NCC
“Nothing in the universe ever grew from the outside in.”
Richard Wagamese, Ojibwe author, in Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations
Meaningful change begins within, takes root in your truth, and grows as you courageously take your place in the sun.
I meet you as a whole person, with curiosity, depth, and respect for the wisdom you already carry. I help adults heal from the past, live more fully with anxiety, depression, and mood disorders, and navigate life changes. Each of these calls for something different from therapy, but all of the work begins in the same place: with who you are at your core.
At the heart of my practice is the belief that every person is a constellation of identities, histories, passions, and possibilities entirely their own. Many of the people I work with are neurodivergent, LGBTQ+, fem presenting, AFAB, or BIPOC. Like me, many are also mothers, creatives, nerds, former student athletes, and sneakerheads.
Every part of who you are belongs in our work, both the parts you already know and those we are here to discover together. We make room for complexity while celebrating the joy, strength, creativity, and connection that can emerge as you live more fully as yourself.
My approach is integrative by design, drawing from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Expressive Arts Therapy. EFT helps us work directly with emotions and attachment, making sense of patterns that shape how you connect with yourself and others. DBT offers practices for staying present, regulating emotions, tolerating distress, and navigating relationships. CBT helps us understand how thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and behaviors influence one another and try new ways of responding. Expressive Arts Therapy can bring image, color, movement, sound, or writing into the process, giving you additional ways to explore and express your experience.
I follow your lead, learning over time how you prefer to explore and which approaches feel most useful and meaningful to you. Your goals provide the map, your needs shape the path, and your choices make the journey yours.
I shape my presence around what you need from me, whether that is an anchor, a mirror, a witness, or a guide. As our work develops, I learn when to offer steadiness, when to reflect what I see, and when to make room for what is already within you. Whatever form that takes, I hold the space so you do not have to hold everything together. There is room to exhale, loosen your grip, and let the breeze tousle your hair as we travel your path together. I offer thoughtful questions, honest reflection, and compassionate challenge, helping you hear your own voice more clearly. Your pace and boundaries shape the safety and trust we build together.
Together, we unravel your story with care, finding clarity in your lived experience and the survival patterns that helped carry you through. In the present, we honor how those patterns protected you while letting go of what no longer serves you. Your essential self can then guide the path forward.
About Alice
Becoming a therapist was not a straight path for me, though therapy has been part of my life since childhood. My own experience as a client showed me what becomes possible when someone sees you clearly, challenges you thoughtfully, and stays with you through difficult parts. My first degree was in art, and I began my professional life in the creative world before moving into education. Teaching clarified the kind of work I wanted to do: work built around connection, curiosity, and helping people reconnect with who they are at their core. Looking back, each stop along the way led me back to therapy, this time as the therapist.
My own story includes being adopted, becoming a parent as a teenager, exploring my queerness, and doing the work to return to my essential self. Those experiences inform who I am, but they do not make our stories the same. Each of us is shaped by a life no one else has lived, and your story deserves to be understood on its own terms.
When the workday is done, I turn toward the people, creatures, and creative pursuits that make my life feel full. I love the outdoors, Star Trek, He Who Fights with Monsters, and sunny days by the pool. I play video games badly and board games well, often with my partner and adult child, who makes me endlessly proud. I am an unapologetic nerd and cat mom to Cleo and Figaro. I can often be found painting, reading, working on a Jason Asano cosplay, nurturing something in the garden, planning my next creative project, or taking the cats on one of the leashed walks they frequently request.