Licensed to practice in Texas and accepts 10 insurances. Specializes in Couples Counseling, Grief, Life Transitions and 4 more.
(she/her)
New to Grow
To put it simply, I believe we are travelers on this journey. I’m not your guide, provider or healer and you’re not my client, user, or patient in a passive sense. We’re both learning from each other. That said, I know the expectation is still that I share my knowledge and help you reach your destination by leaning on my education and training.
Your first session is designed to help us get clear on what brought you in, what you want support with, and what kind of care will feel most helpful for you. For therapy clients, the first session is more structured than a typical ongoing session. We will review your current concerns, relevant history, goals, symptoms, and what you would like to be different in your life or relationships. This session also helps determine diagnosis, treatment focus, and whether this is the right clinical fit.
Sessions are conversational, collaborative, and focused on what is actually showing up in your life. We may process emotions, identify patterns, explore relationship dynamics, practice coping skills, work on boundaries, challenge unhelpful thoughts, or talk through decisions and life transitions. My style is down-to-earth, honest, and supportive. I am not a “sit silently and nod the whole time” therapist, but I am also not here to judge or tell you how to live your life. The goal is to help you better understand yourself, feel more grounded, and make choices that align with the life you are trying to build.
I am best positioned to serve adults and couples who are ready to move beyond simply surviving difficult seasons and want practical support creating healthier, more connected lives and relationships. My work is especially suited for couples navigating communication breakdowns, emotional distance, trust injuries, infidelity, recurring conflict, life transitions, parenting stress, or the feeling that they have become more like roommates than partners. With couples, I help partners slow down destructive conflict cycles and learn how to communicate in ways that create emotional safety rather than defensiveness. We work on reducing patterns such as criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and shutting down, while strengthening repair attempts, accountability, emotional attunement, friendship, affection, appreciation, and shared meaning. I help couples rebuild trust through consistency, transparency, difficult but respectful conversations, and clear agreements about what repair needs to look like moving forward. Sessions are active, practical, and focused on helping each partner feel more understood, valued, and emotionally connected. I also support individuals and families experiencing grief and loss, including anticipated loss, the death of a loved one, complicated grief, caregiver stress, relationship loss, identity shifts, and major life transitions. Grief is not something to “get over.” Together, we create space to process the emotional, physical, relational, and spiritual impact of loss while helping clients find ways to carry their loved one’s memory forward. My grief work may include meaning-making, continuing bonds, coping with anniversaries and triggers, self-compassion, boundary setting, navigating changes in family roles, and rebuilding a sense of purpose after loss. My clients often want more than insight alone. They want clear goals, healthier patterns, stronger relationships, emotional tools they can actually use, and a life that feels more aligned with who they are becoming.
Other specialties
I identify as
Attachment-based
At this time, I do not provide therapy services for children or adolescents under age 18. My practice is currently focused on working with adults and couples. When appropriate, I am happy to provide referrals to clinicians and providers who specialize in supporting teens, children, and young people.
Couples Counseling
My couples therapy approach is attachment-based and Gottman-inspired. I use practical tools from both approaches to help partners better understand the emotional patterns, communication habits, and protective responses that may be creating distance in their relationship. From an attachment-based lens, we explore how each partner’s past experiences, attachment style, fears, and needs may affect the way they respond to conflict, closeness, reassurance, trust, and vulnerability. For example, one partner may pursue connection when they feel disconnected, while the other may withdraw or shut down when they feel overwhelmed. Rather than blaming either person, we work to understand the cycle between them and identify the needs underneath the reactions. I also use Gottman-inspired tools to help couples strengthen friendship, appreciation, emotional intimacy, conflict management, and repair. Couples learn to recognize patterns such as criticism, defensiveness, contempt, and stonewalling, while practicing healthier ways to communicate concerns, express needs, listen with curiosity, and make repair attempts when conflict happens. Treatment may include improving communication skills, rebuilding trust after hurt or betrayal, increasing emotional safety, creating clearer boundaries and agreements, strengthening friendship and affection, learning how to handle recurring disagreements, and developing rituals of connection that fit the couple’s everyday life. My goal is to help couples move away from feeling like opponents and toward functioning as a more secure, connected team. Sessions are active and collaborative, with opportunities to practice new skills in real time and apply them between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
I use DBT-informed practices to help clients navigate grief, intense emotions, relationship stress, and difficult life transitions with more support and practical coping tools. Grief can bring waves of sadness, anger, guilt, numbness, anxiety, loneliness, or overwhelm often changing from day to day. Rather than trying to rush or “fix” grief, we make space for the loss while building skills that help clients cope with the emotions that come with it. In grief work, DBT-based tools can help clients tolerate painful moments such as anniversaries, reminders, family conflict, changes in routine, or sudden waves of emotion. We may focus on grounding, self-soothing, accepting what cannot be changed, creating plans for difficult dates, and finding ways to care for yourself while still honoring the person or loss that matters to you. With individual clients, I teach skills from several DBT areas, including mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Mindfulness helps clients slow down and notice thoughts, feelings, and body sensations without immediately reacting. Distress-tolerance skills provide tools for getting through high-emotion moments without making the situation worse. Emotion-regulation skills help clients understand emotional triggers, reduce vulnerability to intense emotions, and respond more intentionally. Interpersonal-effectiveness skills support clients in setting boundaries, asking for what they need, communicating clearly, and maintaining self-respect in relationships. Sessions are not just focused on talking about what happened. We practice skills together in session through examples, role-play, reflection, and real-life problem solving. Clients are also encouraged to practice skills outside of session so they can use them in everyday situations. During conflict, grief triggers, stressful conversations, work challenges, or moments when emotions feel especially hard to manage. The goal is to help clients feel more grounded, capable, and supported while they move through grief and build a life that feels more manageable and meaningful.