Services
- Individual
- Couples
- Family
- Child
- Adolescent/Teen
About My Clients
I see individual therapy as the challenging yet rewarding process of identifying, acknowledging, and processing difficult experiences and the feelings that come with those experiences, whether that is grief, anxiety, trauma, or depression. The end goal of therapy is to gain a better understanding of how our negative experiences have affected our past and present without continuing to allow them to control our future and, in doing so, gain skills to better manage our lives and future challenges.
My Background and Approach
I have been practicing in Texas since 2009 in settings including children’s services, family services, school services, drug prevention and intervention services working through a variety of issues including depression and anxiety, mood disorders, drug and tobacco education, addiction counseling, in and out patient group and family therapy, parent education, and individual crisis counseling. I also have experience working on staff with a church and offering spiritual support and coaching especially with couples, as well as knowledge and training in addressing mental health concerns specific to pre- and post-natal women as well as antenatal trauma and perinatal loss. My primary experience has been working with children, adolescents, young adults, and their families helping them to gain better communication and coping skills and address past trauma and maladaptive habits.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I am offer both secular as well as faith-based counseling services, and I particularly enjoy being able to work with clients with whom I share a faith connection and am able to integrate the principals of Christianity in to our work together to aid in their healing and growth both psychologically as well as spiritually. Having served on staff in a church as well as being involved in several negative church situations, I am aware of some of the baggage that comes from unhealthy spiritual environments, and have a passion for helping clients to unload some of those burdens and connect with authentic Christianity and the God who loves us but doesn't leave us where we are, but comes along side to walk us towards growth and freedom (sanctification).