Hi, I'm Haley!

You're the health care worker who holds it together through a code and then charts like nothing happened. The first responder who has seen things most people will never have to imagine. The physician, the attorney, the executive who performs composure for a living. You carry what you see at work, and somewhere along the way you found something that helped you set it down. The drink after shift. The few more than you planned. The thing that turned the volume down and finally let you exist in your own body.

And maybe for a while, it worked. But here you are, and some part of you knows that what got you through your shifts isn't going to get you where you actually want to go.

That's clarity. And it's enough to start with.

I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker specializing in the intersection of addiction and trauma for high-stress professionals. The people I work with are healthcare workers, first responders, high achievers, and men who were taught that struggling quietly is what strength looks like. They're excellent at their jobs and quietly coming apart everywhere else. For most of them, the drinking or using and the stress and the trauma aren't separate problems. They're the same wound showing up in different ways. You can't treat one without the other, and I won't try to.

Here's something else I want you to know: you don't need a rock bottom to be in this room. Maybe nobody in your life would even call what you're doing a problem. You show up, you perform, your work is solid. But you've started noticing the math. How early you start thinking about that first drink. How rarely a night off is actually off. If you've ever typed "am I drinking too much" into a search bar at 1am and then deleted it, this is for you too. The gray area is real, and it counts.

And if you're a man reading this, I want to speak to you directly. Somewhere around age ten you were probably handed a short list of acceptable feelings. Anger made the list. Fine made the list. Everything else got pushed down, and for a lot of men, drinking became the one socially sanctioned way to take the edge off things nobody ever taught you to name. So if therapy feels foreign, or like admitting defeat, I get it. It isn't. It's what you'd do with any other problem you take seriously: bring in someone who knows the terrain. You don't have to show up with the right words. Showing up is the whole assignment.

I'll be honest with you: I didn't find this work by accident. I grew up in a family impacted by addiction. I know what it's like to love someone who is struggling and not be able to fix it. I know the unpredictability, the hypervigilance, the way you learn to read a room before you've even taken off your coat. Those are the same skills that probably make you exceptional at your job right now. They're also the ones that make it nearly impossible to turn work off when you get home.

That experience shaped everything about how I show up for this. I bring compassion, authenticity, and a genuine understanding of how complex and nonlinear recovery really is, because I've watched it up close my whole life. I know how hard it is to ask for help when being the helper has always been your job.

Over the course of my career I've worked in crisis and acute psychiatric care, residential and outpatient treatment, and case management. I've been in those rooms. I know what you carry home. I've sat with people at their absolute lowest and watched them find their way to something better, and I know that's possible for you too.

How I work

My approach is warm, strength-based, and built around you, not a protocol. I draw from narrative therapy, DBT, CBT, IFS, Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), and motivational interviewing, and I use them in whatever combination actually fits where you are right now, all within The COVE Method, Therapy Cove's signature trauma framework. We move at your pace. We don't rip anything open before you're ready. And we build the skills to handle what comes up as we go.

The body keeps score. The nervous system remembers. We'll work with all of it.

Whether you're newly sober and terrified of what's underneath, still in the thick of it and not sure you're ready to stop, or somewhere in between, this is a space where you don't have to perform recovery. You just have to show up.

Outside the therapy room, you'll find me at the gym, in the kitchen trying a new recipe, exploring somewhere I've never been, or with family and friends recharging for the week ahead.

You've survived this long on your own. Imagine what's possible with actual support. Let's chat!