Manna Mental Health

01/27/2026

A reminder that healing doesn’t erase the cracks. It honors them.

Like the Japanese process of kintsugi, we don’t rush to hide what’s been broken. We tend to it with care, presence, and a little gold, letting repair become part of the beauty. At Manna Mental Health, growth is colorful, imperfect, and worthy of being seen.

01/25/2026

As a Salem Witch Trials historian (I have some specific life interests) AND an Integrative Mental Health therapist, I'm here to remind you: best practice is to get those labs done to make sure and rule out any medical issue contributing to mental health symptoms!

01/25/2026

In Norse mythology, Skadi is a mountain queen.

She is born of loss, shaped by grief, and utterly unwilling to betray herself for comfort or belonging. Skadi chooses the high places, the cold truth, the life that fits rather than the one that looks good on paper.

She is the one who says, “This doesn’t work for me,” and walks back into the snow without asking permission. This is why Skadi shows up so naturally in my work with women.

Many of the women I serve are intuitive, capable, deeply feeling, and quietly exhausted from trying to adapt themselves to environments, roles, or relationships that were never built for them. They are often grieving something unnamed. A body that changed. A faith that cracked open. A life that no longer fits the script they were handed.

At Manna Mental Health, Skadi reminds us that nourishment is not always gentle. Sometimes it looks like space. Sometimes it looks like saying no. Sometimes it looks like choosing your own terrain and building a life there, one deliberate step at a time.

This work is especially supportive for women navigating burnout, identity shifts, trauma recovery, spiritual transitions, and the deep work of coming home to themselves.

01/21/2026

Some days reality feels very… Alice in Wonderland. Time bends. Things don’t quite scale correctly. You look perfectly composed while pushing a mental shopping cart that makes absolutely no sense to anyone else.

This image feels like moving through the world with a different lens. Highly perceptive. Slightly surreal. Moving to the beat of a different drummer.

What’s in YOUR cart right now?

A) Responsibility
B) Transitions
C) Grief + gratitude combo pack
D) Hope, but fragile
E) Everyone else’s needs
F) Snacks and denial

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01/20/2026

After a medical leave and intentional transition period, I’m returning to boutique practice with a deeper niche focus, and a beautifully refreshed aesthetic in the therapy room.

If beige therapy, stiff silence, or worksheets are your dream, I'm sorry babe but this ain't it. My approach blends feminine psychology, depth-oriented therapy, and meaning-centered care for women who feel deeply, think creatively, and are ready to stop pretending they’re fine.

I work with burnout, identity shifts, grief, lost creativity and emotional overwhelm with warmth, insight, humor, and real conversation. This is therapy that treats sensitivity as intelligence, intuition as wisdom, and becoming as something powerful (not pathological). My clients tend to be "former" gifted children, executives and managers, those struggling with autoimmune diseases, creatives (including artists, actors, writers, dancers), helpers and teachers...or anyone with an inner knowing that they are looking for a more aligned path.

I have openings available, take insurance and am accepting new clients, with self-scheduling now live (except for initial session--this is scheduled through me directly).

Depth-oriented therapy for sensitive & intuitive women ready to reclaim softness, power and story

01/19/2026

🦄 If you live with autoimmune disease, you are a unicorn.

And unicorns are not meant to live standard-issue lives. They can't.

Your body responds differently. What works for most people may exhaust or harm you. So you build a life with different rhythms, boundaries, and definitions of “well.”

And yes, there is grief in that. Grief for the ease you expected. Grief for not fitting neatly into the norm. Grief over loss of a quality life. Grief of what you are unable to give to others. Grief of having to set boundaries. Grief that you shouldn't or can't eat that flour cake at a birthday party when everyone else is.

It means something changed. Different is not broken. It means your body and nervous system require a more attuned way of living.

You are not failing at normal. You are learning how to live true to your design.

Manna Mental Health
~Where complex bodies and tender hearts are met with care~

01/16/2026

Back in the old timey days, if a woman fainted, flushed, or felt anxious, tired, or “off,” she might’ve been diagnosed with one spooky little word: hysteria.

It was the "everything bagel" of medicine, covering what we’d now recognize as autoimmune illness, menopause changes, trauma responses or anxiety. They didn’t have the language for nervous-system dysregulation or mind-body connection… so they called it hysteria.

Today, we know those illnesses and symptoms are real and treatable. That’s where Lifestyle-Based Behavioral Therapy comes in: blending psychology, physiology, and daily rhythms to calm the immune system, support the body, and restore balance.

As a therapist who also lives with autoimmune challenges, I understand how deeply body and mind intertwine. Therapy isn’t about dismissing your symptoms... it’s about helping you listen to them with compassion and strategy.

01/10/2026

I’m not interested in monetizing false hope.

We tend to hear from people who “fully healed” and turned their recovery into a brand or influencing style, while far less attention is given to the many people who are still managing symptoms, regulating their nervous systems, and building meaningful lives alongside anxiety, trauma, or chronic stress.
Symptom management is real mental health work. While severity can be lessened, sometimes there isn't a conquering or trophy for "winning" a chronic physical or mental condition.

Stability is an outcome. Ongoing care doesn’t mean failure. My work isn’t about promising transformation or selling an ending. It’s about honest, nervous-system-informed care and helping people reduce suffering while living lives that are actually livable.

Hope matters. But false hope comes at a cost.

01/05/2026

I love psychoanalysis…but not the stiff, silent, lie-on-the-couch-for-10-years version. I practice a feminine-psychological style of depth work: curious, relational, and very much alive. We notice patterns, symbolism, and the inner world, yes…but we also laugh, use real language, and don’t pretend I’m a mysterious blank screen with a clipboard. This isn’t Freud’s dim office with the ticking clock. It’s modern, humane, emotionally intelligent psychoanalysis — where your depth isn’t dissected, it’s understood.

Because when you understand yourself, you like yourself. (That's why personality quizzes are so popular!)

01/04/2026

As I prepare to go back to work early next month, you could say there's been a few changes to my branding and niche. Excited to unveil more later but for now, check out my revamped website...

Depth-oriented therapy for sensitive & intuitive women ready to reclaim softness, power and story

12/30/2025

You have five senses. You were given them for a reason. Use them for good, for grounding. Use them to feel alive.

12/24/2025

I may be on leave right now from my practice, but I'm sending a gentle reminder on the principle of dialectics:

You can grieve and still show up. You can hurt and still love. You can miss them deeply and keep going.

Remember: its not about having to choose joy or sorrow. It’s allowing both to exist at the same time.

If this season feels heavy and contradictory, you’re not failing. You’re holding complexity. And that takes strength.