Services
About My Clients
Our work together can provide an opportunity to experience a deeper sense of intimacy, strengthen the commitment and communication with your partner and improve the quality of the relationships in your life. Sessions will serves as a platform to practice new relationship skills, gain a greater sense of self-acceptance and self-awareness as you begin to eliminate communication patterns interfering with the trust, intimacy and connection between you and your partner.
My Background and Approach
I incorporate activities, tools, and strategies to facilitate change and promote long term growth, increasing healthier communication, intimacy and spontaneity. My work is client centered, trauma focused, strengths based, integrative, and grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy, narrative and family systems therapy. I find that people become discouraged, feeling as if they have no control over their life, and as a result, life begins to feel like a daily challenge versus a life of joy, purpose and connection. I was born and raised in Chicago. I obtained my Bachelors of Arts degree in Psychology from Northeastern Illinois University in 2002 and my Master’s degree in Community Counseling from Northeastern Illinois University in 2013. I have worked within community mental health and private practice and have been in the field for over 15 years.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Treatment specialization: Discernment counseling, LGBTQ counseling, marriage counseling, premarital counseling — couples, families, individuals struggling with anxiety and depressive disorders, PTSD, self-harming behaviors, relationship issues, and healthy sexual identity development. I utilize EMDR in my work with clients to decrease symptoms and emotional distress to expedite the healing process.