LCSW, 7 years of experience
I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker based in Florida. I specialize in helping women (18+) navigate anxiety, life transitions, and stage-of-life challenges. I also work closely with foster and adoptive parents, as well as adults who were adopted or part of the foster care system. With over 19 years in full-time ministry, I’m passionate about supporting those in helping professions as they overcome burnout and compassion fatigue.
During our first session, we’ll begin with brief introductions and review your intake paperwork together. I want you to feel comfortable and heard as we explore what brought you to therapy and what you hope to gain from it. I’ll ask questions to better understand your background, current challenges, and goals—whether you’re managing anxiety, navigating a major life transition, or processing experiences related to foster care, adoption, motherhood, or life in general. Whatever season you’re in, this is a space where grace and growth meet—rooted in faith and guided by hope. My desire is for you to leave our first session feeling seen, supported, and reminded that healing is possible through both practical tools and God’s presence in your journey.
As a clinician I have worked with the foster/adoptive population for 8 years, a therapist for 7 years and in full time ministry for almost 20 years. These experiences have built in me empathy, tenacity, advocacy, perseverance, and hope as well as therapeutic tools to help facilitate lasting change.
I enjoy empowering individuals to overcome boundaries and oppression by helping them recognize and use the God-given strengths already within them. My work includes supporting foster and adoptive parents as they navigate parenting challenges, guiding individuals in healing from past trauma, and helping them build secure, healthy attachments that shape future relationships. I also walk alongside women facing anxiety, identity struggles, or life transitions—offering tools and faith-based encouragement to find peace and renewed confidence. In addition, I help those in helping professions strengthen their sense of self, set healthy boundaries, and rediscover the purpose God has placed before them as they pursue their goals for the future. I would love to help you, and I invite you to schedule a 15-minute free discovery call with me.
I like to integrate my faith in Jesus Christ into my practice. I have been a pastor's wife for 19 years and understand mental health from a biblical framework. They can work in tandem with one another when integrating best mental health practices with scripture.
I like to use CBT with grief and depression. Research shows thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are interconnected, and by modifying dysfunctional thinking, we can positively influence emotions and actions. CBT helps individuals develop healthier ways of coping by teaching practical skills such as: recognizing and reframing distorted thoughts, developing problem-solving strategies, learning relaxation techniques, gradually facing fears and improving emotional regulation
I use this method for adjustment disorder or life transition challenges. I like it because it is future-focused and emphasizes finding solutions rather than analyzing problems. It builds on the belief that clients already have the strengths and resources needed to create positive change, and therapy focuses on helping to recognize and utilize those strengths.
I use this approach when working with foster care, adoption or other relationship based trauma such as abandonment or neglect. It approaches unwanted behaviors by discovering unmet needs. Identifying the unmet needs are usually due to a relationship based traumas (i.e. separation from a parent, drugs/alcohol, domestic violence). Those interruptions create gaps in development. This treatment seeks to create emotionally healthy secure attachment that clients use to connect with others throughout life.
In helping professions such as ministry or non-profit realms, self care is a major priority but often neglected. By fostering compassion for oneself and others, compassion focused treatment helps people break free from cycles of negativity, compassion fatigue and the voice of guilt and shame. Neuroscience gives voice to how brains and bodies respond when the threat system is activated but also how to turn that off with self soothing practices, psychoeducation and self compassion.