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About My Clients
People hurt people all the time. When we get hurt whether we are a child or an adult it is hard to leave the hurt in the past without the hurt, pain or trauma affecting us. I know exactly what you are feeling; the anger, the panic, the negative self image. This affects your life day in and day out. I don't want you to have to suffer anymore.
My Background and Approach
Before attending graduate school, she worked for DHS/DCFS and was a member of Bikers against Child Abuse. In 2011, her world was turned upside down when her best friend and fiancé were killed three months apart. She spent three months assisting her best friend’s husband and children in the grieving process, and after her fiancé was killed she had to learn to grieve that loss along with the loss of her best friend. While she and the other family were grieving their loss together she and the widower found love and married. With this marriage, she became the stepmother of a 17, 10 and 2 year old, while her 21 year old son was exploring his independence. While watching her children try to make sense of their unexpected loss and significant trauma, she realized she wanted to be the safe person for children and families who have suffered traumas and this led her to becoming a play therapist.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe everyone yearns to be connected to someone. Someone they can deeply trust with their deepest darkest secrets and always feel safe when they are with that someone. However, sometime in our life, our attachment or trust gets broken and we don't feel completely safe or attached to anyone. Then our world can become very lonely and we feel stuck. As a foster/adopt parent and a step mother, I know the struggle of raising traumatized children. I became a registered play therapist to help children work through their traumas and also help parents to parent a traumatized child. Trauma affects us all differently and that is what makes parenting so hard. If the parent has suffered a trauma from their past the trauma can trigger them when trying to parent their child.