Services
- Individual
- Family
- Child
- Adolescent/Teen
About My Clients
I am here to support and empower clients seeking relief and resolution to anxiety, Depression, grief, prior trauma, troubled relationships, anger, self-esteem issues, and mood disorders. I enjoy working with children, teens, and adults, especially women. I am EMDR trained and offer a trauma-informed, integrated, strengths-based approach to increase your resilience, effective coping, and reduce feelings of distress, helplessness, and hopelessness.
My Background and Approach
As a former educator and school counselor, I believe each person has innate strengths with vision, creativity, and resilience that will flourish in an accepting therapeutic relationship. I support clients in recovery from grief, anxiety, Depression, life adjustments, relational conflict, low self-esteem, prior trauma, and parenting challenges. I offer empathy and practical tools to enhance your insight, interpersonal skills, hope, resolve, and renewal. I integrate Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-focused techniques, Motivational Interviewing and the experiential approaches of Sandtray and expressive arts. When working with children and teens, I also coach parents on communication, setting limits, strengthening attachments, and enhancing cooperation to strengthen families and promote harmony.
Why I Became a Therapist
We have a beautiful world and are created for connection; however, negative life experiences can distort one's sense of value and safety in the world and lead to self-limiting beliefs and actions. As a former teacher, pregnancy center volunteer, and school counselor, I have witnessed a full spectrum of human experiences, from great joy for those persons able to realize their intrinsic value and gifts to profound discouragement for others who faced constant setbacks or abuse. It has become my mission to educate, empower, and support discouraged clients who have lost their way, or their confidence, by helping them gain understanding and new skills, release old resentments and pain, and find the courage to walk towards personal wholeness, healthier relationships, and renewed purpose.