We’re So glad you reached out.

First steps are big steps, and we are honored that you’re considering us to walk alongside you through this part of your life. Whatever brings you here today, whether there is a big catalyst pushing you to get help now, or if you’ve been curious about therapy for a while, our hope is to get you connected to a therapist that can offer some immediate support and the tools to help you get where you want to go - even if you don’t even know what that looks like yet.

Our Therapists

  • Yining Liu, MS Intern

    Best things: Career + life transitions, academic + workplace burnout, overachievement, immigration + cultural identity, identity + self-worth, mindfulness + spirituality

    Languages: English and Mandarin

    Yining is a therapist-in-training and sees clients at a reduced rate of $50/session.

  • Spencer Pierce, APC

    Best things: connection and authenticity, depression and anxiety, identity, trauma, grief, meditation/breathwork

    Spencer can bill in network for Aetna and Anthem/BCBS

  • Wendy Zhang, APC

    Best things: Complex & intergenerational trauma, life transitions, career stress, cultural identity, women finding their voice, grief and loss, depression, and anxiety

    Languages: English and Mandarin

    Wendy can bill in network for Aetna and Anthem/BCBS

  • Kaleigh McAfee, AMFT

    Best things: spiritual folks, trauma, veterans, IFS + somatic practices

    Kaleigh is in network with Aetna and can bill in network for BCBS

  • Julie Lane, LPC

    Best things: grief and loss, chronic illness and complex medical issues, walking alongside folks facing end-of-life issues and their caregivers, depression, and anxiety

    Julie is currently in network with Aetna, Ambetter, BCBS, Medicare, and UHC

  • Laura Joplin, LCSW

    Best things: Queer and trans folks, somatic-focused therapies, yoga and meditation, IFS, neurodivergence, psychedelic prep and integration and grief

    In network with Aetna

  • Matthew Shugart, LPC

    Best things: Trauma, neurodiversity, life transitions, therapy for therapists, and “hippie-dippie spiritual stuff”

    In network with Aetna, Ambetter, BCBS, Medicare, UHC/UBH

  • Melanie Storrusten, LCSW, ACS

    Best things: blending the mystical and clinical in therapy sessions and business models, and teaching other therapists to do the same

    Melanie’s work is focused on providing clinical supervision and training to the next generation of therapists and practice owners, deep-dive therapy intensives, and creating more spaces for collective healing.