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Hello! I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Registered Nurse. I have over 20 years experience as a licensed clinician working with adolecents, children, and adults. I bring a holistic approach to my work with clients integrating the mind and body. I truly listen and tailor my interventions and strategies to who you are and your unique needs. I have worked with conditions such as anxiety, depression, suicidality, self harm, grief, relationships, parenting struggles, ADHD, and emotional regulation.
In our fist session, we will spend some time exploring how you arrived in your current situation, what drove you to seek help, and discuss goals you want to achieve and where you want to be at the end of your healing/therapeutic journey. Your journey is your own and the depths of exploration are yours to choose.
Having worked in the mental health field for over 20 years with various populations in a variety of settings, and with my combined physical and mental health education and experience , I excel in assessing needs and using an individualized approach to building tangible coping skills for measured improvement and success. I encourage skills that enable the mind and body to work together for improved health and coping.
My ideal clients are open to exploring the current thoughts, emotions, strengths, spiritual practices, and behaviors to enhance their day to day life. Typically my clients are on a journey of self discovery and have identified behaviors they recognize are no longer serving them and a desire to make changes. Clients will be open to implementing meditation, mindfulness, and creating daily intentional practices. Goals include learning to regulate emotions, strategies for changing behaviors and thoughts, and willingness to take responsibility and ownership of behaviors, reactions, and choices.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I have used CBT for the past 23 years to help individuals identify how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. We then use this information to create new and helpful ways of coping with stress, anxiety, depression, negative thinking and suicidality.
Eclectic
In my 23 years of experience, I have learned and used a variety of therapy techniques with adults, and adolescents wanting to learn more effective means of coping with anxiety, depressions, grief, suicidality, ADHD, negative self image, and emotional dysregulation. Today, I draw concepts from those techniques to create an approach tailored to individual strengths, challenges, and goals including Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Bereavement Therapy, Trauma Informed therapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming, Mind Body Approach, Psychoanalytic, Play Therapy, Strength based and many others.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
I received several trainings in DBT and utlized concepts with children and adolescents on an inpatient crisis stanbilization unit and utilize the concepts in my day to day therapy with adolescents and adults.
Grief Therapy
I worked as a Child Bereavement Specialist with Community Hosptice and provided bereavment therapy for children and provided education and guidance to parents and the community on how to best approach grief with children. I take the concepts I learned about the bereavement process with all my clients, children and adult and assist indidvudals with moving through their individualized grief process.
Mind-body approach
As a Registered Nurse, I fully integrate my knowlege and experience with physical health and medical issues and how those may impact a persons mental health.
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October 6, 2025
She takes me through situations without judgement, and always makes me feel empowered.