Hi, it’s nice to meet you–
I’m Mica.
I believe healing happens through authentic connection, emotional safety, and understanding the ways our nervous systems learned to survive.
You’ve mastered functioning. Now it’s time to feel connected again.
Let’s do this together.
Healing for the parts of you that learned to survive.
Many of the clients I work with are highly capable people who have spent years functioning under chronic stress, pressure, perfectionism, trauma, or emotional overwhelm while continuing to show up for everyone around them. From the outside, life may appear successful and “together,” yet internally, you may feel emotionally exhausted, disconnected, anxious, or stuck in survival mode.
Over time, survival strategies like over-functioning, emotional suppression, perfectionism, or hyper-independence can begin to feel isolating and exhausting, even when they once helped you cope or succeed.
My approach to therapy is warm, collaborative, and grounded in understanding how trauma and chronic stress impact both the nervous system and relationships. Through EMDR and trauma-responsive therapy, I help clients move beyond survival mode and toward greater connection, emotional clarity, and lasting change.
I believe healing happens through authentic connection, emotional safety, and creating space for people to exist without constantly performing or carrying everything alone.
My work is informed by advanced training in EMDR, trauma-informed therapy, nervous system healing, and relational approaches to care. I am an EMDR Certified Therapist, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and EMDR basic training coach, and I continue to integrate ongoing doctoral research focused on resilience, trauma-responsive care, and meaningful long-term healing.
My goal is to create a space that feels grounded, compassionate, and deeply human, where meaningful healing and renewed connection can begin.
I believe therapy should feel grounded, collaborative, and emotionally safe enough for meaningful change to happen.
Therapy is not about “fixing” who you are. Many of the patterns that bring people into therapy began as ways to cope, protect themselves, or survive overwhelming experiences.
My role is to help you better understand those patterns with compassion rather than shame, while creating space for meaningful and lasting change to happen.
Together, our work will be collaborative, intentional, and tailored to your unique experiences, goals, and nervous system. Whether you feel emotionally overwhelmed, disconnected, burned out, anxious, or uncertain where to begin, therapy can become a space where you no longer have to navigate everything alone.
What Guides My Work
Compassion
We will approach your experiences with curiosity, empathy, and care rather than shame or self-judgment.
Understanding
Together, we will explore the ways your past experiences, relationships, and survival strategies continue to shape your present.
Patience
Healing does not happen all at once. We will create space for meaningful change to unfold at a pace that feels sustainable and supportive.
Growth
Our work together is intended to support not only healing, but a deeper sense of connection, clarity, and lasting change in your daily life.
Survival Mode
Adults who feel emotionally overwhelmed, constantly “on,” or unable to fully rest.
Perfectionism & Burnout
High-achievers exhausted by pressure, over-functioning, and chronic self-expectation.
Trauma & Relationships
Those navigating painful experiences, emotional disconnection, or patterns rooted in survival.
Who I Often Work With
Many of the clients I work with are highly capable people who are used to carrying a great deal internally while continuing to function at a high level externally.
Regardless of your experiences, therapy can become a space where you no longer have to navigate everything alone.
professionals and high achievers
perfectionists and over-functioners
graduate students and academics
helping professionals and caregivers
first responders and military members
adults navigating trauma, burnout, anxiety, and emotional exhaustion
people who feel disconnected from themselves despite appearing “fine” from the outside