(she/her)
New to Grow
I’m a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor (LPC-S) and PhD with over 16 years of experience helping children, adolescents, and families heal, grow, and reconnect. I specialize in working with trauma, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, behavioral challenges, and family relationship concerns using a warm, supportive, and collaborative approach. I strive to create a space where clients feel safe, understood, and empowered while building the tools needed for lasting emotional wellness and healthier relationships.
During your first session, we will spend time getting to know each other and discussing what brings you to therapy, your current concerns, and the goals you hope to achieve. I will ask questions about your emotional, relational, and personal history to better understand your experiences while also giving you space to share at your own comfort level. My approach is warm, collaborative, and nonjudgmental, and I want you to feel safe, heard, and supported throughout the process. Together, we will begin identifying strengths, areas of concern, and a plan for moving forward in therapy.
What sets my approach apart is the combination of genuine compassion, deep clinical experience, and practical tools that help clients create meaningful change in their everyday lives. I focus on building a strong, trusting relationship where clients feel safe, supported, and truly understood while working through challenges such as trauma, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, behavioral concerns, and family stress. My therapy style is warm, collaborative, and personalized, blending evidence-based approaches like CBT, TF-CBT, DBT-informed strategies, EMDR, and family therapy to meet each client’s unique needs. Clients often leave sessions with greater insight, stronger coping skills, improved emotional balance, and healthier relationships, along with a clearer sense of confidence and hope.
I am best positioned to serve children, adolescents, adults, and families who are navigating trauma, emotional dysregulation, anxiety, behavioral concerns, attachment difficulties, family conflict, and significant life stressors. My experience includes clients with complex trauma histories, mood and behavioral challenges, disrupted family relationships, and difficulties with emotional regulation and interpersonal functioning. I work particularly well with clients who may feel misunderstood, guarded, resistant to treatment, or overwhelmed by their experiences. I strive to create a safe, supportive, and nonjudgmental therapeutic environment where clients can build trust, develop insight, and strengthen healthy coping skills at their own pace. I integrate evidence-based approaches such as CBT, TF-CBT, DBT-informed interventions, EMDR, and family therapy to meet the individual needs of each client while remaining sensitive to cultural, developmental, and systemic factors that influence mental health. I also value caregiver involvement when appropriate and often work to strengthen communication, attachment, and relational functioning within families. I am especially passionate about helping adolescents and families move beyond survival-based patterns and develop greater emotional awareness, resilience, connection, and stability. My goal is to help clients feel heard, supported, and capable of creating meaningful and lasting change in their lives and relationships.
Other specialties
I identify as
Person-centered (Rogerian)
I use a person-centered approach as the foundation of my clinical work with children, adolescents, and families. My approach emphasizes empathy, authenticity, unconditional positive regard, and creating a safe environment where clients feel heard and respected. I use reflective listening, emotional validation, and collaborative goal setting to help clients build insight, self-awareness, and confidence in their ability to make changes. I often integrate person-centered principles with trauma-informed approaches such as CBT, TF-CBT, DBT-informed interventions, and family therapy while maintaining a strong focus on the therapeutic relationship. With adolescents, especially, this approach helps reduce resistance, strengthen engagement, and foster trust throughout the counseling process.