Services
- Individual
- Adolescent/Teen
About My Clients
I believe that everyone can benefit from counseling at some point in their lives when things become challenging or overwhelming. I enjoy working with adolescents, young adults, and adults who are experiencing difficult life transitions, anxiety, relationship issues, and grief and loss. I work well with clients who are neurodivergent, curious, highly-sensitive, or struggling with self-esteem or self-advocacy skills.
My Background and Approach
I have been providing grief counseling to those who have experienced traumatic loss for several years. This has allowed me to gain many skills and tools to utilize with clients as they work through hardship, loss, and major life transitions. An individual approach to counseling helps me to build a meaningful connection with each client and to better understand their unique identity, beliefs, and experiences. I hope to encourage my clients to identify their core values as a way to find purpose, strengthen relationships, and work toward future goals.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
As a social worker, the tenets of self-determination, social justice, basic human rights, and cultural humility are things that I cherish and strive to uphold. I aim to be affirming and accepting of clients' racial, gender, disability, and ethnic identities. I feel it is important for me to acknowledge my privilege as a caucasian woman and how this can impact the power dynamic of a clinical setting. Shame is a poor motivator for meaningful change, and mental illness is not a moral failing. I believe that support, compassion, and validation are more useful tools for most of life's challenges.