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About My Clients
I enjoy working with adults who suffer from grief and loss, trauma, and sport-related performance issues. To help overcome these challenges, I take a collaborative approach that focuses on understanding the problem to determine how best to resolve it. I believe that humans have a large capacity to be autonomous and self-directed. Thus, as a psychologist I help my clients realize this potential, promoting adaptive ways of coping, and work myself out of job as a result.
My Background and Approach
Since 2008, I have been providing individual, group, and couples counseling to adults across the lifespan in various settings, such as private practice, community mental health centers, hospitals, and university counseling centers. In 2013, I earned my doctorate in Counseling Psychology from West Virginia University, and have been a licensed psychologist (#1954) in the state of Montana since 2016. My desire to work with grief and trauma began after studying the development of PTSD among victims of the Indian Ocean Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. These experiences demonstrated the healing value of relationships after these events, which inspired me to specialize helping people adapt to bereavement and trauma. In addition, I also specialize working with sport-related performance issues (i.e., sport psychology) and frequently treat and enjoy working with depression, anxiety, sexual issues, and other concerns.