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About My Clients
I work with individuals and couples navigating religious trauma, faith transitions, and the emotional fallout of high-control belief systems. Many of my clients are thoughtful, values-driven people who feel grief, anger, shame, or confusion as they unlearn conditioning around obedience, worthiness, and identity. They often struggle with self-trust, people-pleasing, or relational strain, and are seeking a space to process their experiences, reconnect with themselves, and move forward with clarity
My Background and Approach
I hold a Master of Science in Professional Counseling and am a Licensed Professional Counselor in Arizona. I’m trained in EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and I’m a Certified Sex-Informed Professional. My clinical background includes individual, couples, and group work, with a focus on religious trauma, spiritual abuse recovery, identity reconstruction, and complex grief following faith transitions. My approach is trauma-informed, collaborative, and integrative. I tailor therapy to each client, drawing from EMDR to process traumatic experiences, IFS to explore internal conflicts with compassion, and DBT to support emotional regulation and self-trust. I move at a pace that honors your nervous system, values, and lived experience, with an emphasis on safety, autonomy, and meaningful change.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe therapy should be collaborative, affirming, and rooted in respect for each person’s autonomy. I don’t view clients as broken or disordered, but as people whose nervous systems adapted to survive environments that often demanded suppression, obedience, or self-abandonment. Symptoms make sense when we understand the context they developed in. As a queer therapist, I’m especially mindful of how shame, erasure, and conditional belonging impact mental health—particularly within religious and high-control systems. I believe healing involves reclaiming internal authority, reconnecting with the body, and developing self-trust. Therapy is not about becoming someone new, but about coming home to who you’ve always been, with more compassion, clarity, and choice.