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Maybe you thought you'd feel different by now.
Maybe your body has changed, your cycle no longer makes sense, you're struggling with fertility, you're living with symptoms you didn't expect, or you're grieving a version of your life you thought you'd have.
And when your body doesn't follow the plan, it's easy to turn toward control:
What am I doing wrong? What can I fix? Why can't my body just cooperate?
You don't have to love your body every day. And you don't have to stop wanting things to be different.
Therapy can help you build a different relationship with your body, one rooted in curiosity, self-trust, expression, and compassion rather than constant monitoring, judgment, and control.
Using talk therapy and creative expression, we'll make space for what your body is experiencing and what it means to you, so you can feel more at home in yourself.
No art experience needed. No productivity required.
If you feel
from your body
and your
you are not alone.
disconnected
creative spark,
When your body doesn't
follow the plan
You may be someone who is used to figuring things out. Thoughtful. Capable. Maybe a little perfectionistic. You research, analyze, plan, and try to do things "right."
But your body doesn't always cooperate.
Maybe you're navigating:
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Fertility struggles or uncertainty about becoming a parent
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Changes in your menstrual cycle or reproductive health
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Pregnancy loss or other reproductive grief
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Symptoms or changes you didn't expect, leaving you confused, frustrated, or disconnected from yourself
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The experience of getting older and realizing your body isn't what it used to be
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A growing sense that you can't trust your body, or yourself
Sometimes the hardest part isn't the physical experience itself. It's what it makes you believe about yourself.
I'm failing. I'm behind. Something is wrong with me. I should be handling this better. If I just try harder, I can fix it.
You don't have to think your way out of those feelings.
Why talk therapy sometimes isn't enough
You are already very good at articulating how you feel.
You can describe your anxiety in precise detail. You can explain exactly why you can't slow down. You've probably read the books, listened to the podcasts, and intellectually understand that you need to rest.
And yet — here you are.
That's because true healing doesn't happen only in the thinking mind. It happens when we move past the intellect and connect with the deeper, somatic parts of who you are. In my practice, we gently blend talk therapy with a few powerful tools:
Art Therapy
You don't need to be "good at art." You don't need to know how to draw, and you don't need to make something beautiful. We'll use color, imagery, movement, writing, collage, and other creative processes to explore experiences that are difficult to put into words. You might draw what your body feels like. Give an image to the part of you that is constantly trying to figure everything out. Create the story you've been carrying about what your body should be. Or make something that shows the relationship you'd like to have with yourself now. The art isn't the point. What becomes possible through making it is.
Cycle Awareness
Your body is naturally cyclical, but we live in a world that expects the same high capacity every single day. Together, we'll look at how your energy, emotions, and creativity shift over time, so your body's patterns become information instead of an obstacle. Even if your cycle has changed or feels unpredictable, there is often still something to learn from what your body is telling you.
Nervous System Support
We'll also build in ways to steady yourself when your body feels like it's working against you, so you're not white-knuckling through hard moments.
Coming Home to Yourself
Coming home doesn't mean loving every part of your body. It means being able to live here.
To notice what you're feeling without immediately judging it.
To listen to your body without obsessing over every sensation.
To make room for grief without believing you've failed.
To want something deeply without making your worth depend on getting it.
To experience your body as something you live with, rather than a problem you have to solve.
You don't have to love your body to come home to it.
A little more about Ashley
I'm a Board-Certified Art Therapist and Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Tallahassee with over 11 years of experience helping women reconnect with themselves. I have advanced training in reproductive mental health.
I work with women who are used to being in their heads, thinking, analyzing, anticipating, and trying to get things right, and who are finding that their bodies don't always follow the rules.
My approach combines talk therapy with art therapy and creative expression. I believe creativity isn't about making "good art." It's another way of knowing ourselves, especially when words aren't enough. I'm especially interested in the places where women's relationships with their bodies intersect with perfectionism, self-doubt, reproductive experiences, changing cycles, and the expectations we've absorbed about what our bodies, and our lives, are supposed to look like.
Therapy with me isn't about forcing yourself to love your body or finding the perfect way to "fix" yourself. It's about becoming curious about your experience, making space for what is difficult, and building a relationship with yourself that can hold both what you hoped for and what is actually here.
More than any modality, what I bring to this work is a belief that you are not too much, not too broken, and not too late. Self-trust grows through creative courage: making the next mark, taking the next step, saying the next true thing before certainty arrives.
Ready to Find Your Way Back?
You don't have to have it all figured out before you reach out. You just have to be a little curious about what life might feel like if you weren't so exhausted by it.
The first step is a free 15-minute consultation — a gentle conversation to see if we're a good fit. No pressure, no commitment. Just a chance to be heard.
I work with women in -person in Tallahassee and virtually throughout the state of Florida.