Hi there! I’m Lacy.

After 8 years as a therapist, my purpose remains the same: listening to people so they may be known, seen, and loved.

I’m a people-person who is insatiably curious about the human experience and delights in creating spaces that draw out the best in others. My heart naturally opens to the gift of life. But life isn’t always kind to open hearts, is it?

I learned very early in life that making other people happy was a speedy way to win affection. By my 20s, I was mired in a trap of people pleasing to earn love. Silenced by shame and fearful of abandonment, I’d say “yes” at any opportunity to help someone else without paying attention to my own limits. What began as open-hearted love slowly hardened into resentment. Back then, I saw myself as a Super Helper, not a human being.

Burned out and desperate for change, I slowly began learning how mutuality, self-compassion, and rest could result in a harmonious cycle of tending towards my own needs as well as the needs of others. Thankfully, I found a safe and confidential space to explore a new story that was ready to emerge. And being able to speak openly in a tiny, ivy-filled therapy office was essential for my growth.

Therapy played (and still plays) a pivotal part in my own becoming.

This is one way of saying that I learned the hard way what happens when we hustle for our self-worth. Suffering led me to therapy. Love, curiosity, and wonder lead me now in the practice of being a therapist. I’m honored to accompany kindred spirits who are ready to experience freedom from familiar traps like perfectionism, guilt and shame, self-criticism, relational dysfunction, and emotional dysregulation.