Licensed to practice in Michigan and accepts 15 insurances. Specializes in Life Transitions, Mood Disorders, Trauma and PTSD and 3 more.
(she/her)
New to Grow
As a provider, I always believe my clients are experts in their own lives. You have known you for your whole life and I am a guest in this chapter. I bring psychological and health expertise, and you bring expertise in who you were, who you are, and who you want to be. Taking a trauma-informed and resilience-building approach, I work with the body and mind to help you explore your unique pathway to wellbeing. Because no two people are the same, I also believe your care should reflect your unique needs and perspective. Utilizing an integrative approach, we will work together to develop your personalized path to wellness. Overall, we'll strive for balance, connection, and long-lasting transformation centered on you!
In our first session, we'll explore what your needs are and what is bringing you to therapy now. For some, they've been struggling for a long time; for others, these struggles are new; and for others, they don't know when IT started, but they just know right now they aren't their best. The beauty of therapy is that you don't have to have the answers or even know what you hope your final destination will be; as long as you bring openness and your full self, the work can begin! Whether your first time or you're looking to start again, the first session is our opportunity to get to know one another and how we might fit together. It is the rare time when I take the lead! This is a great time to bring any questions you have about what to expect, thoughts on what you might want to try (or the opposite), and most importantly, to get to know if we are the right fit for one another. Spoiler alert: I'll be asking you a lot of questions. The background information helps to catch me up on the life you have already been living! It also gives me a glimpse into where we might be going.
I value authenticity in my clinical work: I encourage clients to be their most authentic selves, and I strive to model the same. In therapy with me, I invite my clients to bring their whole selves; not a mask, not the polished version you take to the office, or the version of you you've created to blend in. No. Bring every beautiful, bent, and where-did-this-even-come-from part of you! That is how we make progress. That is how you explore what it means for you to be whole.
If you are in a time of transition, I'm the clinician for you! Most of my work centers Black and Brown women who are navigating systems and pressures related to their identity and well-being. This might look like balancing the pressures of family, career, and other obligations, or wanting to make a change but feeling stuck and unable to take the first step, or even having made changes and experiencing doubt, and everything in between. Together we explore how to take of the cape, discover and engage in restoration, and cultivate the identity that is true to who you know yourself to be. Lastly, healing work is active. Clients who are ready to actively pursue wellness (even if it's scary) and are willing to invest in themselves will get the most out of therapy with me.
Other specialties
I identify as
Integrative
Every person is different, and therefore every treatment plan is different. Drawing from primary psychodynamic, humanistic, and ACT modalities, I work ith patients to develop their unique plan towards wellness.
EMDR
I am Part I and Part II trained in EMDR. I have successfully been providing this method of treatment via telehealth to patients both familiar and unfamiliar with EMDR.