Hi, I’m Toni

I believe healing isn't about becoming someone new. It's about coming home to yourself—and fully participating in your life.

I've always been fascinated by people.

Not because I wanted to understand what was "wrong" with them, but because I wanted to understand how we become who we are. Why we repeat patterns we desperately want to change. Why thoughtful, caring women slowly lose touch with themselves while trying to care for everyone else.

One of the greatest privileges of this work is being trusted with the parts of people's stories they've never said out loud. Again and again, I've watched shame begin to loosen its grip—not because the story changes, but because someone experiences what it feels like to be fully seen and not left.

I've come to believe that healing isn't about becoming a better version of yourself or arriving at some perfected version who never gets anxious, angry, overwhelmed, or triggered. I don't believe healing erases our humanity. I believe it helps us embrace it with more compassion.

To me, healing is about becoming more fully alive.

It's trusting yourself. Feeling at home in your body. Grieving honestly. Laughing more easily. Setting boundaries without believing you've become a bad person. Participating in your life instead of simply surviving it.

Outside the therapy room, you'll usually find me cooking something new, practicing yoga, dancing my way through a workout, exploring Austin with my husband and daughter, or finding new ways to make my little girl laugh. I love gathering people around a table, conversations that wander from the ridiculous to the deeply meaningful, and I don't believe healing has to be heavy all the time. Sometimes laughter is just as therapeutic as tears.

I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with advanced training in EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and trauma-conscious yoga. I'm also currently completing the three-year Somatic Experiencing® Professional Training and am in Beginning Level I. While those approaches shape my work, I believe healing happens in the context of a relationship where you feel safe enough to become more honest with yourself.

If you're looking for a therapist who will be curious with you, laugh with you, gently challenge you, and help you reconnect with yourself, I'd love to meet you.

Core Values

  • Wholeness
    I believe you’re not broken — “healing” is about reconnecting to your full, authentic self and loving yourself

  • Embodied Healing
    I use somatic therapies, yoga, and EMDR to go beyond talk and support deep, body-based transformation. I focus more on what your body physically is feeling than what your mind is telling you.

  • Liberation-Focused
    I practice from a decolonized lens, helping you break free from inherited systems of harm like patriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalism.

  • Intersectional Feminism
    I honor the complexity of womanhood across race, class, sexuality, ability, and motherhood. You are seen in your full context.

  • Human-Centered
    You're more than a diagnosis. In fact, I rarely discuss a diagnosis with you. I value honesty, compassion, and honoring your whole humanity. I value your uniqueness. Society has values and beliefs they tell us to care about. I care more about what makes you you. What are YOUR values, what do YOU care about. What is YOUR why for living

  • Depth + Realness
    I don’t do surface-level. Healing here is raw, deep, I will ask the hard and uncomfortable questions. I do challenge, disagree, and support you.

  • Interdependence
    You don’t have to do it alone. I believe in community, co-regulation, and healing in relationship.