The paradox of embarrassment, guilt, and shame is that they all come in through the same door they have to exit through: our vulnerability. Scary, right? I understand. Here’s another paradox… that feeling of being othered… of sadness, isolation, & despair; that awful sensation of loneliness… that is a feeling that we all experience together. The only thing worse than suffering alone, is doing it in silence.

My name is Aly, and I'm a Therapist here at Grounded Wellbeing. My background spans a lifetime of teaching, directing, and art-making with over half a decade of clinical experience in partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, outpatient, community, school, lived, and private levels of care. A full list of specialties, modalities, and “who I see” is listed on my Psychology Today Profile: HERE.

You may have already sensed that I can be direct. I make big ideas straightforward, help find small, actionable steps for progress whenever possible, and believe that sometimes, simple is better. I also believe that sometimes, the best way to zoom in: is to zoom out. I am passionately free thinking, exploratory, mindful, sensitive, meditative, socratic, expansive, and radically accepting. Most importantly, I am loving and kind. 

I believe that the past matters only in so much as it is informing the present. I believe that we only need two ingredients to begin our work: curiosity – or a simple, nonjudgmental awareness that seeks to notice and observe – and the practice of empathy, or loving kindness. I believe that we possess all the answers to address our trauma, anxiety, depression, fears, habits, relationships, and more, inside us! I am here to help you dis-cover them. Together, we will help you strengthen your present awareness, clarify your values, and cultivate intentional choices that are both authentic to the person you know yourself to be, and congruent to the person you seek to become.

To the partners, couples, and families, I am deeply passionate about helping find solutions, speak the unthinkable, and pick the phone back up on the relationships you’ve started. To the young adults, teenagers, and kiddos, it’s giving. As a member of the queer, gender, and neurodiverse communities, I bring lived experience to clinical expertise. Come as you are. I am an ENM & poly affirming clinician prioritizing deep commitments to systemic, body positive, anti-racist, anti-xenophobic work. All are welcome here!  

I believe that the relationship between you and your therapist is the most significant factor for healing and growth. On the off chance that we’re not a perfect fit, I am positive that I will know someone who is. It’s my privilege to help you! That’s why I make time for us to connect for free. So, schedule with me! It takes two seconds, and you have nothing to lose! Only everything to gain.  

To schedule your free meeting with Aly, click here.