LICSW, 4 years of experience
I am a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker located in Minnesota. I received my Master's Degree in social work from San Diego State University and have been working with kids and families for the past 14 years. I love working with a variety of clients, helping to learn healthy processes for grieving, behavior modification techniques, and creating opportunities to live and thrive!
During our first session you can expect that we will take some time to explore the challenges that you may be facing, and what your goals are for your future therapy sessions. This will allow us the opportunity to create a plan moving forward..
I have experience in a variety of areas and a passion for helping individuals and families move from just surviving to thriving!
I love working with blended families who are navigating the complexities of building a cohesive and thriving family unit. I also love working with young widows, and other individuals who have experiences grief and loss and are looking for ways to build healthy grieving strategies.
Strengths-Based Therapy is a therapeutic approach that focuses on recognizing, building, and utilizing a client’s existing strengths, skills, and resources to promote growth and positive change. Rather than centering on deficits or dysfunction, this model highlights resilience, personal abilities, and successes as the foundation for healing. In sessions, you can expect that we will work together to identify strengths, set empowering goals, and enhance your sense of competence and self-efficacy. Strengths-Based Therapy can be beneficial for individuals of all ages and across a wide range of mental health and behavioral challenges. This approach supports motivation, hope, and long-term wellness.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based therapeutic approach that helps individuals understand how their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interconnected. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and replacing them with more balanced and effective thoughts, which in turn leads to healthier emotional responses and behaviors. You can expect to learn practical skills such as cognitive restructuring, coping strategies, and behavior change techniques that can be applied in everyday situations. CBT is effective for a wide range of concerns—including anxiety, depression, behavior challenges, and stress—and supports building long-term resilience and improved functioning.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence based form of psychotherapy that helps people to process traumatic or distressing memories. By changing the way that memories are stored in the brain, EMDR has been shown to be effective in reducing or even eliminating problematic symptoms. I am very excited to be able to offer this model of therapy in my practice.
Grief Therapy is a therapeutic approach focused on supporting individuals who are experiencing loss and the complex emotions that come with it. The goal of grief therapy is not to “move on” from the person or experience lost, but rather to help you understand and cope with their grief, integrate the loss into their lives, and find a renewed sense of meaning and connection. You can expect that we will work together to express feelings, build coping strategies, adjust to changes in daily life, and honor what was lost. Grief therapy can be helpful for people navigating bereavement, traumatic loss, ambiguous loss, or significant life transitions. The approach is highly individualized, recognizing that healing is a personal process with no set timeline.
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is an evidence-based treatment designed to help children and adolescents recover from the emotional and behavioral effects of trauma, such as abuse, neglect, violence, accidents, or traumatic loss. TF-CBT integrates cognitive-behavioral strategies with trauma-sensitive interventions to reduce post-traumatic stress symptoms, anxiety, depression, and behavioral challenges. This structured therapy model typically includes both the child and their caregiver. It teaches coping skills, supports healthy emotional expression, and helps the client gradually process and make sense of traumatic memories in a safe and supportive environment. By strengthening resilience and enhancing family communication, TF-CBT empowers clients to regain a sense of safety, control, and confidence in their daily lives.
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February 4, 2025
Just make me feel at ease. Easy to talk to.