New to Grow
With over 12 years of experience in crisis services, I bring a calm, grounded, and compassionate presence to my private practice. I am deeply passionate about working with individuals who are choosing therapy as an intentional step toward healing, growth, and emotional wellness. I believe mental wellness—like physical health—exists on a continuum and looks different for every person. Life’s challenges can create emotional peaks and valleys, and therapy offers a supportive space to develop the insight, skills, and resilience needed to navigate them more effectively. My role is to partner with you in the therapeutic process, helping you strengthen self-regulation, build emotional awareness, and reduce the likelihood of future crises. My clinical approach is collaborative and tailored to each client. I draw from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Therapy, and Psychodynamic Therapy, integrating mindfulness-based practices to support self-reflection, emotional balance, and long-term fulfillment. Together, we work to identify patterns, build practical coping strategies, and cultivate meaningful, sustainable change. In addition to individual therapy, I am committed to education, training, and family support as tools to reduce stigma and increase access to mental health care. Seeking support is a strength, and you do not have to navigate life’s challenges alone. If you are ready to invest in your mental wellness and begin a thoughtful, supportive therapeutic journey, I invite you to schedule an appointment.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
Session 1 is your opportunity to INTERVIEW me to determine if I am the therapist you are looking for as you take this step. Then we will move to an INTAKE: I want to understand what brought you to therapy at this time in this current moment. Next is GOALSETTING: I will ask you to share the expectations that you have for therapy and what you want to achieve. We will discuss the roadmap to get you there and how we will know we have arrived.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
I have always believed that each of us deserve to be accepted for our own uniqueness or "normal" and my greatest strength is that acceptance of others. I have accomplished therapeutic goals such as assisting clients to feel more capable of exercising control of their lives, increasing their decision making skills, acceptance of their own mistakes and finding motivation to make life changes. My greatest treatment successes come in working to help children and adolescents manage emotionality and build enhanced resiliency skills to handle and accept challenges more effectively and adaptively. By incorporating pschoeducation into psychotherapy, I work to help individuals understand mental health and wellness, mental illnesses and diagnosis. My approach to treatment is based in Solution Focused Therapy and incorporating elements of specific therapies to meet individual needs, including Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and Mindfulness I am able to bring a dynamic approach to treatment and recovery. Clients leave each session knowing they are working towards the identified goals and with a strategy and coping skills to work towards the desired outcomes.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
Working to assist and support clients and their families/caregivers in developing balance and pursuing their self-determined and dynamic potential, I offer therapy for children, adolescents, and adults with anxiety, depression, grief, negative emotionality and self-esteem, disruptive behaviors, trauma experiences and life transitions. Additionally, I assist individuals and families in understanding advocacy for treatment services and supports.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Using focused talk therapy to help with managing anxiety, depression, and other issues by focusing on the connection between mindset and thoughts, feelings, and behavioral response. By working to teach individuals to identify and challenge negative patterns of thinking and response and replace them with more desirable and realistic ones, while also developing practical coping strategies for problem-solving and stressful situations. The goal is to help you self regulate by developing skills to manage your symptoms independently.
Person-centered (Rogerian)
Using a person center approach to create a safe place for a collaborative effort with each client to explore their life experiences in a supportive environment. For anxiety, depression, life transitions and adjustments, this means the client feels safe to explore their feelings without judgment, which builds self-awareness and self-acceptance, allowing them to find their own solutions and tap into their innate ability to grow. Combined with mindfulness practices, person centered therapy will allow the client to become more self awareness and have more self-compassion to help promote mental wellness.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Working with clients to become aware of and change their inner dialogue from criticism to understanding and supportive self care and in engagement with others. It begins with recognizing that the adage "do unto others as you want the to do unto you" starts with self. As individuals learn to be the helpful, understanding and accepting person they are for others for themself, they are able to build better self-regulations, emotional resilience and wellness.