LPC, 12 years of experience
New to Grow
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 12 years of experience supporting individuals through challenges related to anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions. I am committed to creating a safe, nonjudgmental space where clients can explore their thoughts, build resilience, and move toward healing and empowerment. I am confident in my abilities to assist you and look forward to the opportunity to grow together!
Our first therapy session will be primarily focused on building rapport, gathering background information, and establishing a foundation for treatment. I create a safe, welcoming environment where you feel heard and respected. This session typically includes a discussion of confidentiality and its limits, an overview of the therapeutic process, and clarification of your reasons for seeking help. I will ask about your personal history, current concerns, mental health symptoms, and goals for therapy. It’s also an opportunity to assess risk factors, and to begin forming a clinical impression. While formal interventions are usually minimal, I use active listening, empathy, and validation to foster trust and encourage openness. By the end of the session, both we will both collaborate on initial goals and agree on a direction for future work. Let's grow together!
I have the ability to blend clinical expertise with genuine human connection and tailor my approach to each individual, drawing from multiple modalities—such as CBT, DBT, ACT, and narrative therapy—to meet you where they are emotionally and psychologically. Our sessions are grounded in empathy, growth, and a deep respect for autonomy, allowing you to feel safe while exploring change. I balance structure with flexibility, offering both evidence-based interventions and space for authentic dialogue. This integrative, client-centered style fosters trust, resilience, and meaningful progress.
With a compassionate, client-centered approach, I integrate evidence-based practices such as CBT, mindfulness, and trauma-informed care to help you achieve meaningful personal growth.
I implement Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in clinical practice by integrating its structured framework into individual sessions. In individual sessions, I use behavioral chain analysis to help us identify the sequence of events leading to problematic behaviors, including triggers, thoughts, emotions, and consequences. This process allows for targeted skill application and insight development. We learn to balance acceptance and change by validating our emotional experience and encouraging behavioral shifts through dialectical strategies. DBT’s four core skill modules—mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness—are taught for individual use, with real-time modeling of the skills and assigning homework to reinforce learning. Diary cards are used to track emotional states, urges, and skill use, guiding session focus and promoting self-monitoring. We will begin with psychoeducation to orient you to the DBT model, use visual aids and metaphors to enhance understanding, and emphasize validation before problem-solving. Over time, DBT helps us reduce emotional reactivity, improve distress tolerance, strengthen relationships, and increase self-awareness, making it a powerful tool for treating complex emotional and behavioral challenges.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in individual therapy sessions focuses on helping us identify and challenge unhelpful thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors that contribute to emotional distress. I guide clients through structured techniques such as cognitive restructuring, behavioral activation, and problem-solving to promote healthier thinking patterns and coping strategies. Sessions often include goal setting, homework assignments, and skill-building exercises tailored to your needs. Over time, CBT empowers clients to develop greater self-awareness, emotional regulation, and resilience in managing life’s challenges.
Motivational Interviewing (MI) can be used in individual therapy sessions to help us explore and resolve ambivalence about change. I use a collaborative, nonjudgmental approach that emphasizes empathy, reflective listening, and open-ended questions to elicit the client’s own motivations and values. By reinforcing autonomy and highlighting discrepancies between current behaviors and personal goals, MI empowers clients to move toward meaningful change at their own pace.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a mindfulness-based behavioral approach that helps clients develop psychological flexibility—the ability to stay present and act in alignment with personal values, even in the face of difficult thoughts and emotions. In individual therapy sessions, ACT is implemented by guiding clients through six core processes: acceptance of internal experiences, cognitive defusion (creating distance from unhelpful thoughts), present-moment awareness, self-as-context (observing self), values clarification, and committed action. Therapists use experiential exercises, metaphors, and mindfulness practices to help clients shift from avoidance and control strategies toward openness and purposeful living. ACT empowers clients to respond to life’s challenges with greater resilience and authenticity.
Eclectic therapy is a flexible and integrative approach in individual sessions where the therapist draws from multiple therapeutic modalities to best meet the client’s unique needs. Rather than adhering strictly to one theoretical framework, the clinician selects techniques from approaches such as CBT, DBT, psychodynamic, humanistic, or narrative therapy based on the client’s presenting issues, personality, and goals. This allows for a personalized treatment plan that can evolve over time, combining evidence-based strategies with relational attunement. Eclectic therapy emphasizes clinical judgment, responsiveness, and adaptability, making it especially useful for complex or comorbid cases.