Services
- Individual
- Couples
- Group
About My Clients
Are you seeking coping skills and support as you work through some heavy things? Open to learning new skills and adding them to the skill toolbox you already have. If you are ready for change and looking to work on regulating intense emotions, enforcing boundaries, and building meaningful relationships, I may be a great fit. Let's focus on the tools you are already using, the strength you have, and build upon that to create a life worth living.
My Background and Approach
For the past 15 years, my practice has been focused on helping people through Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) skills. This journey started in graduate school, where I first learned DBT skills. Since earning my M.A in Counseling Psychology, I have taught over 10k students worldwide coping skills. I have attended webinars and trainings on addiction, neurodivergence, and family systems. For the last few years, I have been training mental health professionals in using DBT skills with their clients, and I enjoy sharing DBT skills. In my private I see myself as someone working alongside clients in navigating some heavy things in a way that feels both natural and challenging. My role is to bring DBT skills into sessions, utilizing the skills clients are already using, and together work towards operating with intent towards positive change.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe we are all doing the best we can with what we have available to us, AND we can do better. Everyone is using coping skills that they have learned and been taught, while some of these may be helpful at times in our lives, they may not be helpful long-term, or may no longer be serving you or helping you work towards your goals. Therapy has helped me immensely throughout my life and has made major challenges in my life less of a rollercoaster, enabling me to see common threads and disentangle and organize things. As a member of the LGBTQ+ community and parent of a Neurodivergent child, I have continued professional and personal growth and have adapted my work, including how I utilize DBT skills. I am always learning and unlearning, and have a collaborative approach in my work to get to know my clients as best I can, as they are the experts on their lives, and I am here to walk alongside them, disentangling some of the mess that is being human together.