Above the Tides Counseling LLC

Life’s currents can feel overwhelming, yet healing is always within reach. At Above the Tides, I offer compassionate, trauma-informed telehealth therapy to help you navigate anxiety, burnout, neurodivergence, grief, and life transitions. Sessions are secure, confidential, and available to adult clients in North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, and Maine.

Our Guiding Principles

ABOVE

• A: Awareness Cultivating mindful presence in everyday life

• B: Balance Restoring harmony among thoughts, emotions, and actions

• O: Opportunity Transforming challenges into openings for growth

• V: Validation Honoring your lived experience and feelings

• E: Elevation Rising beyond limitations toward your highest potential

TIDES

• T: Transformation Turning pain into powerful growth

• I: Insight Gaining clarity about patterns and strengths

• D: Direction Charting a purposeful course forward

• E: Empowerment Building confidence and autonomy

• S: Support Creating a safe, affirming therapeutic space

Rooted in these principles, every session is designed to help you rise above the waves and move toward steadier waters. When you’re ready to embark on or continue your healing journey, I’m here to partner with you each step of the way.

I have a special interest in ADHD, anxiety, addiction, bereavement, divorce, bariatric psychological evaluations for weight loss surgery, and neurodivergent affirming care. I specialize in ADHD and executive functioning challenges because I believe neurodivergence is not a disorder to be fixed but a natural variation of the human mind. As a neurodivergent clinician myself, I bring both professional expertise and lived experience to the work. I understand firsthand the challenges of navigating systems that were not built for our brains, as well as the creativity, insight, and resilience that come with thinking differently. I have 18 years experience working in the mental health and addiction field in an array of healthcare settings.

I take a neurodivergent affirming, trauma informed, culturally responsive, and intersectional approach to therapy, grounded in both evidence based strategies and nervous system regulation. While traditional treatment models can offer helpful tools, many were not designed with neurodivergent people in mind and can unintentionally reinforce shame, burnout, or unrealistic expectations. That’s why I take an integrative approach, blending structured methods with flexibility, compassion, and creativity.

Drawing from Polyvagal Theory, the Living in Balance model, and holistic mind body practices, I help clients understand how their brain and body respond to stress, overwhelm, and demand. Together, we work to reduce shame, increase self awareness, and build sustainable systems that support safety, motivation, and focus.

I offer a validating, nonpathologizing space where clients can show up fully as themselves without masking and build lives that work with their brains, not against them. Whether you are navigating ADHD, trauma, grief, addiction recovery, burnout, divorce, or major life transitions, my goal is to support your healing, your autonomy, and your growth. You don’t need to be fixed. You need to be seen, understood, and supported in becoming more fully yourself.

I offer self-pay services including bariatric evaluations, career consulting, addiction support for professionals, and premarital couples guidance.

I also provide non traditional therapy, incorporating alternative approaches such as meditation, astrology, dream interpretation, and non Western philosophies. I have extensive experience in supporting and guiding individuals through healing from religious trauma and cult involvement, including those leaving high control groups, non denominational churches, Buddhism, and other non organized spiritual paths. I honor traditional and cross cultural perspectives, mainstream and global approaches, modern and diverse cultural frameworks, conventional and holistic worldviews, and evidence based and culturally diverse practices. This allows me to create a safe, affirming space for exploration, healing, and recovery that respects the uniqueness of each client’s background and beliefs.

I provide affirming, culturally responsive care for LGBTQIA+ individuals, women and women’s health issues, veterans, first responders, students, healthcare professionals, individuals in high demand careers, those who are child free by choice or circumstance, and anyone moving through seasons of change, stress, discovery, or self reinvention. My practice centers the complexity of identity and lived experience, honoring the ways culture, systems, and intersectionality shape your mental health and healing journey.