Services
- Individual
About My Clients
Living with PTSD can feel overwhelming, like the joy has been drained from life, and the memories of past trauma(s) keep you trapped in a cycle of survival and avoidance. Your world may feel very small. There is hope, PTSD is a treatable condition, and healing is possible. With the right support and treatment, you can reclaim your life, rediscover joy, and step back into a world full of possibilities. Recovery is a journey, but you don’t have to walk it alone.
My Background and Approach
I began my professional journey in a non-profit setting focused on ending gender-based violence and supporting survivors of sexual violence. I went on to work with diverse Veterans for twenty years in my public service career with the Department of Veterans Affairs, first as a pre-licensed therapist and later as a licensed psychologist. There, I served in a variety of settings and roles, all focused on providing PTSD specialty care, addressing health disparities for underserved Veterans, and providing supervision, consultation, and training to colleagues (licensed and pre-licensed). A primary intervention that I use is Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy for treatment of PTSD via telehealth to HI and IL. I have found, and research shows, that the best way to reduce PTSD symptoms is by approaching trauma memories and reminders in a safe and therapeutic manner through PE therapy. I am especially enthusiastic about increasing client access to, and therapist comfort with, accelerated PE.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I am a white queer married woman and mother. I was raised mostly in the Pacific Northwest and some on the Big Island of Hawaii in a working-class family. I am now well-educated and middle class. I was shaped by people who valued social justice and political action, coming of age in the 1990s during the Clinton era, and seeing the impact of trauma on my own family. These influences prompted me to pursue psychology as a profession and a mechanism for change at the personal, political, and community level. My professional life and work are dedicated to reducing the impact of PTSD with PE. If you would like to reclaim your life from PTSD with PE or if you are a therapist and you want to learn how to help your clients recover from PTSD with PE, let’s connect!