My Approach

Seeking therapy takes courage; people often feel vulnerable when reaching out for help. I believe the therapy process is a collaboration, and you are the expert on your lived experience. Together we can create a space that honors your values and beliefs and helps you live fully in the present moment, manage painful emotions and symptoms, develop self-compassion, and build more genuine relationships so that you can not only survive, but thrive.

I am a trauma-informed therapist, trained in many different theories to work with individuals, couples, families, and teens living with different mental health symptoms, oppression, and interpersonal and familial difficulties. Together we can find strategies to alleviate symptoms and emotional pain, so that you thrive, not just survive.

I believe in a secure, compassionate, and honest relationship, we can feel brave enough to feel, think, and talk about some of the hardest and must vulnerable things in our life. Creating this environment creates opportunity to translate changes made inside the space we create, to changes in spaces that exist and are created outside of therapy.

My Bio

I holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, and Social Work, an undergraduate degree in Human Services, an Associate’s Degree in Criminal Justice and psychology, and is a Certified Alcohol & Drug Counselor (CAADC), Gambling Counseling, and EMDR Therapist.

 I have been working in the field of addictions since 2001 and in the field of criminal justice since 1994. I use that experience to design innovative programs, recovery and treatment approaches and implementing effective therapeutic approaches. I understand the profound interactions of drug dependency and contributing emotional and psychological factors and can treat individuals in a comprehensive and integrated fashion.

I am happily married to Jason, and we are the proud parents of four children, Human Lydia, feline Ari, K9 Junior, and K9 Jackson. Outside the office, I enjoy motorcycle riding, fostering dogs, advocating for animals, hiking, traveling, kickboxing, and other sports.