HEAL Together is not just a therapy practice - it’s a mission. A mission to offer compassionate, trauma-informed care to those navigating pain, grief, and burnout and searching for healing. It’s the space I needed as a young person, and the kind of support I now offer others. You don’t have to walk this path alone.
Together, we heal.
My Story: Why I Founded HEAL Together
When I was between the ages of 11 and 16, I was exposed to a significant amount of crime in my neighborhood. Our cars were regularly broken into or stolen, and I’ll never forget the day burglars broke into our home while I was inside. At the time, childhood PTSD wasn’t commonly recognized, so I was diagnosed with depression and began seeing therapists off and on throughout my life.
As I grew older and immersed myself in trauma-informed care, I began to understand the truth of my experiences—I had lived through complex trauma and had been misdiagnosed for many years.
This realization fueled my passion for making healing more accessible and to support children and adolescence who need the kind of support that I never received. This led me into the field of school social work. While I poured myself into supporting students, I also witnessed how deeply unsupported educators often are. At many schools, I found myself in near-constant crisis mode, conducting suicide and homicide risk assessments almost daily. Then the unimaginable happened: a student died by suicide. That loss shook me to my core. It made me realize how fundamentally fragile we all are and how we need each other to keep going through the challenges in life.
While school social work was stressful, I was also undergoing fertility treatment—a four-year journey that opened my eyes to the emotional toll and lack of mental health support for women and couples in the perinatal space. The hormonal changes during fertility treatment, pregnancy, and postpartum can dramatically affect a woman’s mental and physical health, and yet these needs are often overlooked. With firsthand knowledge of this experience, I became determined to support others through it with empathy and understanding.
And with my 5 year-old, I feel like I am constantly trying to figure out if I am doing anything right. I know how difficulty parenting is first hand as well as the burden many mothers feel in raising a tiny human being, the most precious and important job we will ever have.
After the last round of burn-out that I experienced in the school system, I knew it was time. Time to step into a different space to support others.
That’s when HEAL Together was born.