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About My Clients
My clients are adult individuals struggling with self-esteem, anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions and/or grief. I specialize in working with individuals who are deep feelers and thinkers and have felt very different from their families of origin, have often been told they are “too sensitive” or scapegoated.
My Background and Approach
I’m passionate about helping individuals connect more deeply with their strengths and inner wisdom to find tools that contribute to growth and resiliency through life’s challenges. I offer a collaborative, safe, authentic space to explore the full range of who you are. I’m devoted to holding the right balance of comfort, curiosity and challenge to help navigate thoughts, emotions and tough patterns that are ready for some change. My approach to therapy incorporates leading-edge scientific knowledge of neurobiology as well as mindfulness, intuitive, experiential and existential modalities. I’m also trained in EMDR and have found this to be an especially effective treatment approach when working with painful issues from the past. After a nearly a 20-year career in medical education and project management, I obtained a Masters in Counseling from St. Edwards University. I have worked in a number of therapeutic settings, including bereavement counseling with Hospice Austin, counseling
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I love helping clients explore and cultivate tools and insight that contribute to deep level change that includes feeling more empowered and resolute in their lives. Life is tough, messy and confusing at times. I believe we all contain immense wisdom within and with the right combination of safety, support, curiosity and compassion much knowledge and information can be cultivated, thereby contributing to deeper personal awareness and change. With that change often comes more meaning and fulfillment in relationships with self and others. My work as a therapist is inspired by transformative experiences of compassion, acceptance and guidance from therapists and teachers throughout my unique journey. I have direct experience in the power of relationship, therapeutic connection and healing, having experienced it myself. In addition, life experiences outside of formal training richly inform my beliefs and interest, including travel, studies in spirituality, yoga and meditation as well as