Hi, I'm Alexis.

I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, parent educator, and mother of two — and I've spent the last decade of my career walking with families through some of life's hardest moments.

I started in oncology social work, sitting with families facing cancer diagnoses. I learned then that when people are in hard time, they need a steady, well-trained, deeply human presence — someone who can hold the whole picture and help you find your own next step.

When my daughter was born in 2017, the work I felt called to shifted. I'd been a clinician for years; I'd never been a mother. Postpartum cracked me open in ways I wasn't prepared for, and I went looking for the kind of support I wished I'd had. What I found — perinatal mental health, somatic practices, Positive Discipline, Adlerian psychology — has shaped my work ever since.

Over the years since, I've built a practice around therapy that treats mothers as whole people, not just as sources of care for someone else. I see moms as magical but sometimes we need a little help to find our magic as moms- not just creating the magic for our kids, but finding the magic within ourselves.

What I focus on

My practice centers mothers as whole people, especially during the long, often-invisible transition of matrescence — the becoming of a mother. Sometimes we recognize the magnitude of this transition in early mother hood and sometimes it takes years.

I work with:

  • Pregnancy and postpartum mental health

  • Birth processing and birth-related grief or trauma

  • Identity shifts, role transitions, and the change from who you were before

  • Parenting from a different place than you were parented from

  • Burnout, overwhelm, and the loneliness of early motherhood

  • Building a nervous system you can actually live with

My training and approach

  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), licensed in Washington State

  • Certified in Perinatal Mental Health (PMH-C) through Postpartum Support International

  • Certified Positive Discipline Educator

  • Training in mind body connection, Adlerian psychology, and trauma-informed care

  • 10+ years working with families across medical, mental health, and parenting contexts

My approach is warm, grounded, and practical. I won't pathologize the normal difficulty of early motherhood — and I won't minimize what you're going through, either. We'll work together to help you find your footing- not again but anew.

Outside of work

I live in Seattle with my husband, two kids and sweet pup. Outside of clinical work, I love PNW summers, reading, hiking, playing tennis and cheering on the Mariners.

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