My Story & Philosophy

Hi, I’m Cami. Your holistic mental health therapist.

As my first blog post, I want to get up close and personal so you can understand how deeply I know the struggles you might be going through.

You might be rolling your eyes right now. Holistic? What does that even mean? It seems like everybody is throwing that word around lately.

In my practice, holistic means this:
I refuse to see mental and physical health as two separate pillars when, in reality, they are two sides of the same coin.

For so many years, I struggled with my mental health. And when I say years, I mean most of my life. Anxiety. Depression. Different eating disorders, in different forms, at different points in my life. Alongside that came digestive issues, chronic fatigue, unexplained weight gain, acne, and countless other physical symptoms that seemed to have no clear root cause.

I went to countless therapists. Dermatologists. Gastroenterologists. Nutritionists. Dietitians.

Everybody had a pill to give me. A meal plan to follow. Calories and macros to track.

Some professionals were kinder than others (you would be surprised how many can be mean and condescending). But almost all of them treated each symptom in isolation. No one was able to zoom out and put everything together.

At the time, healing meant clear skin and a flat stomach. Being thin and beautiful equated to being healthy. My mental health would take care of itself, I told myself. Just keep spending thousands on therapy. Just keep trying to “change your thoughts.”

But no matter how much talk therapy I did, my anxiety seemed to worsen. My sadness deepened. My disordered eating tightened its grip.

My lifestyle told the real story.

My diet was rigidly controlled. I was focused on eating as little as possible and working out as much as I could — in the name of “health.” I remember doing two hour-long workouts a day while meticulously tracking calories. I was subsisting on avocado toast, bland salads, and the occasional chicken breast. I was drinking several nights a week. Coffee on an empty stomach. Sleeping poorly. Struggling with boundaries. Fawning (a word I now love — the clinical term for chronic people-pleasing). Always on the go. Always performing. Always depleted.

Guess how many professionals asked me about any of those lifestyle habits?
(Hint: none.)

In the past few years, as I embarked on my own authentic healing journey, something shifted. The more I focused on lowering inflammation in my body, the better I felt. My anxiety softened. Joy returned more naturally. I had energy again. My body felt safer.

Now, I deeply believe in bioindividuality. One person’s medicine can be another person’s poison. I am not here to hand you a rigid meal plan or prescribe a specific workout split.

But I have lived through — and now witness in so many women — the immense pressure to fit into an unrealistic beauty standard. And I know how depleted, anxious, and small (both literally and metaphorically) that leaves us.

Through both professional training and lived experience, I offer something different: loving, nurturing guidance that integrates mind and body. Not perfection. Not restriction. Not punishment.

My perspective isn’t just personal — it’s informed by years of study and practice. I hold a B.A. in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling, and have completed over 700 hours of clinical work supporting clients in therapeutic settings. I am also a certified Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN), and have spent countless additional hours helping clients navigate behavior change, nervous system regulation, and sustainable lifestyle shifts.

My practice is rooted in both science and lived experience.

My practice is rooted in integration.

Because the other side of the coin matters just as much.

You can eat the highest quality, grass-fed, regeneratively raised foods — but unresolved trauma, lack of boundaries, overstimulation, loneliness, poor relationships, and chronic stress will impact your health just as profoundly. Regulating your nervous system is just as important (I would argue sometimes more so) than hitting your protein goals.

Mental and physical health are not separate journeys. They are the same.

So join me as I write my heart out here. I will share my story, my personal and professional insights, and the tools and encouragement you need to pursue your most vibrant self.

Stop seeking smallness. You are a magical, wonderful, deeply feeling being. And you deserve to feel like one.