LPC, 14 years of experience
I’m a Licensed Professional Counselor with over a decade of experience helping people navigate anxiety, depression, life transitions, and identity questions. My style blends depth-oriented therapy — exploring the deeper patterns and stories that shape you — with practical, evidence-based tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). I spent nine years on the Boulder Crisis Team, providing psychiatric evaluations in ERs, jails, and walk-in clinics, which taught me how to stay calm and effective in moments of distress. In our work together, we’ll use both insight and skills — helping you understand the roots of your struggle while learning concrete ways to regulate emotions, change unhelpful patterns, and create a more meaningful, resilient life.
In our first session, I complete a comprehensive clinical assessment — exploring your history, current concerns, and any relevant medical or mental health background. We’ll clarify what brings you to therapy, begin identifying goals and objectives, and discuss the approach and tools that may be most helpful for you. This session sets the foundation for our work together and helps us create a clear treatment plan moving forward.
My greatest strength is blending deep, insight-oriented work with practical, evidence-based tools so clients feel both understood and equipped to change. I bring a calm, steady presence from nine years on the Boulder Crisis Team, which helps clients feel safe even when exploring painful or complex emotions. My style is direct and present-focused (Gestalt-influenced) — I’ll name what I notice and invite here-and-now awareness and experiment with new ways of relating. I pay close attention to the patterns and life themes that shape a person’s story — drawing on Jungian psychology and Joseph Campbell’s ideas about life transitions — and use that understanding to connect past experiences with current challenges. From there, we work with practical skills from CBT and DBT, like learning to manage emotions, shift unhelpful thinking, and communicate more effectively, so change feels real and doable in everyday life.
I work best with adults who are ready to look beneath the surface and understand the deeper forces shaping their life — whether they’re facing anxiety, depression, life transitions, or relationship struggles. Many of my clients are thoughtful, high-functioning individuals who feel stuck, burned out, or disconnected from their own sense of meaning and purpose. I also help those who’ve experienced early family wounds, cultural displacement, or perfectionism and want to break free from old patterns. My ideal clients are curious, open to self-reflection, and motivated to pair practical tools (CBT/DBT skills) with deeper insight to create lasting, meaningful change.
My clinical background combines depth-oriented psychotherapy with evidence-based approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Over nine years on the Boulder Crisis Team, I performed psychiatric evaluations in emergency rooms, inpatient units, the county jail, and a walk-in mental health clinic. That work sharpened my ability to assess risk, stabilize acute crises, and teach immediate coping strategies. In ongoing outpatient therapy, I use CBT to help clients identify and reframe unhelpful thought patterns, experiment with new behaviors, and build self-efficacy. When emotion dysregulation or relational conflict is central, I incorporate DBT skills — mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness — balancing acceptance with change. Grounded in depth psychology, I integrate these structured, skills-based methods with exploration of early narratives, archetypal themes, and life meaning. This blend allows clients to stabilize during acute stress while also engaging in deeper transformation and long-term growth.