For over twenty years, I've worked alongside adults facing loss and the kind of change no one asked for — a death, a diagnosis, a marriage ending, a life that stopped looking the way they expected it to. I don't believe grief or upheaval follow a script, and I don't try to fit anyone into one. I also know what it's like to be on the other side of the room. Years ago, during a genuinely hard stretch of my own life, counseling helped me more than I expected it to — and that experience shapes how I show up with clients now: not as someone observing from a distance, but as someone who understands what it takes to walk into that first session. What clients tell me matters most is that I take their specific situation seriously rather than treating it as a familiar category. Respect and steadiness, especially in the moments that feel anything but steady, are the foundation of how I work.