New Steps Care

A lot of people delay therapy because of myths like these.

The truth?
You don’t have to wait until things fall apart to get support.

At New Steps Care, we help you:
✨ Gain clarity
✨ Break patterns
✨ Build a healthier version of you

🖥️ Virtual sessions (evenings available)
💳 Aetna & Cigna accepted

📲 Book your first session today — link in bio

This belief keeps more people out of my office than anything else.

The idea that therapy means you’re weak or incapable is outdated and clinically inaccurate. Therapy is a tool. The same way a CPA handles your taxes because they have training you don’t, a therapist helps you process experiences using frameworks and techniques you weren’t taught in school.

The strongest people I work with are the ones who walked through my (virtual) door while still holding their lives together. They didn’t wait for rock bottom. They said, “I know I can keep going, but I don’t want to keep going like this.”

That’s not weakness. That’s a high-functioning person choosing to optimize their mental health the same way they’d optimize their career or their fitness.

I’ve worked across every level of mental health care. The clients I see now at New Steps Care are some of the most capable people I’ve ever met. They don’t need therapy because they can’t handle their problems. They chose therapy because they want to handle them better.

Big difference.

Why I chose to specialize in working professionals

I’ve worked in programs where clients were in treatment 6 hours a day. I’ve worked in treatment settings where someone’s entire world was recovery. I’ve supervised clinicians.

And one thing kept showing up: the people who waited the longest to get help were the ones who seemed like they had it all together.

The director who ran a department of 50 people but couldn’t sleep at night. The nurse who took care of everyone but herself. The attorney who hadn’t told a single person they were struggling.

These are the people who fall through the cracks. They’re too functional for anyone to notice, and too busy to prioritize their own mental health.

That’s exactly why I built New Steps Care as an evening, virtual practice. Because the most underserved population in mental health isn’t always who you’d expect. It’s the person sitting in the office next to you, performing at a high level while quietly falling apart.

I’m licensed in Florida, Virginia, Maine, and Iowa. If you’re a working professional who’s been telling yourself you’ll “deal with it later,” later is now.

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When most people hear “trauma,” they think of a single catastrophic event. But in my clinical work, the trauma that brings people to therapy most often isn’t a headline.

It’s the parent who was physically present but emotionally unavailable. The workplace where you were undermined for years. The relationship where you lost yourself so gradually you didn’t notice until you couldn’t recognize your own reflection.

This is what clinicians call “complex trauma” or “little t trauma.” And it’s just as deserving of treatment as a single major event.

Signs you might be carrying unprocessed trauma:

- You’re a chronic people-pleaser and don’t know why you can’t stop
- You flinch at conflict, even when it’s healthy disagreement
- You dissociate during stress (zoning out, feeling detached from your body)
- You overfunction at work to feel safe

As an LCSW-QS who has treated trauma across multiple levels of care, I can tell you: you don’t need to have a “bad enough” story to deserve support.

Your experience is valid. And it’s treatable.

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