New to Grow
I'm a licensed provider in both South Carolina and Florida. I am passionate about mental health, and providing care to those in need. My goal is to provide knowledge, perspective, and tools to work toward building clients to become self-sufficient and understand what they are experiencing. I come from a background of providing inpatient services to psychiatric hospitals, residential centers, and in a detox level of care. I have transitioned to taking my experience and knowledge to provide services in an outpatient level, and make lasting changes in lives of clients. I serve with a "scaffolding" approach, where clients may lean on me in the beginning, but similar to training wheels, we will work out challenges and dilemmas with a solution-focused manner, that identifies what may be more effective approaches. Change is uncomfortable, but I work to make change fun, less scary, and obtainable.
In my first session, I breakdown the process of therapy, and mention what interventions we can work toward once a foundation is laid out with what treatment will look like. I allow clients to openly process while encouraging vulnerability. I reflect on what was said to see if we are on the same page and are understanding what the individual is experiencing, as therapy exists for the client. You are in control of your treatment and I'm always open to feedback.
I am very sincere and genuine, where I openly provide my perspectives from a humanistic and clinical background. I aim to elicit emotions and guide clients through uncharted territories, new insights about self, and how capable the human mind is to change and develop new neuron pathways.
I am passionate, as a licensed provider, to help clients who may be struggling with thinking too far ahead, struggling with the past following them, or wanting to change habits, ways of thinking, or feeling unequipped. My clients tend to present with feelings of not wanting to repeat the past, knowing how to deal with the past, or wanting to becoming a better person, partner, parent, or friend. It's common to feel like you are isolating, not wanting to be around others, or know how to meet new people without anxiety. The only expectation I have for a client is to show up for yourself and work through the discomfort, knowing we are putting it to a purpose.
Other specialties
I identify as
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is one of the primary approaches I use in my practice to help clients better understand the connection between their thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and overall functioning. CBT is a highly effective, evidence-based treatment model that focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns, cognitive distortions, and deeply rooted core beliefs that may contribute to anxiety, depression, low self-worth, emotional dysregulation, or self-defeating behaviors. My goal is to give you "tools" to practice and use, so that you work toward relying on yourself to manage yourself. Many of the beliefs we carry about ourselves, others, and the world are formed through early experiences, relationships, trauma, or repeated messages over time. Thoughts such as “I’m not good enough,” “I’ll never succeed,” or “I am unlovable” can gradually become internalized and influence mood, motivation, confidence, energy, and decision-making. Through CBT, we work collaboratively to bring these automatic thoughts and underlying beliefs into awareness, examine their validity, and challenge the patterns that no longer serve you. I utilize CBT to help clients develop greater insight into why certain thinking patterns occur and how those patterns impact emotional and behavioral responses. Rather than attempting to “control” thoughts, the goal is to build a healthier relationship with them — learning how to recognize, reframe, and respond to thoughts in a way that promotes emotional balance, resilience, and long-term growth.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an approach I use to help clients navigate intense emotions, low moods, trauma responses, and moments where life can feel emotionally overwhelming. DBT focuses on building practical skills that help you better manage stress, regulate emotions, improve relationships, and slow down impulsive reactions without judging yourself for having them in the first place. Many people struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, or emotional sensitivity often feel like their emotions are “too much” or difficult to control. In my practice, I use DBT to help clients better understand those emotional experiences while learning healthier ways to respond to them. The goal is not to “shut emotions off,” but to learn how to sit with them, work through them, and feel more confident in handling life as it happens. DBT creates space for both acceptance and change while recognizing that your feelings are valid, while also helping you develop the tools needed to move forward in a healthier and more balanced way. My approach is collaborative, grounded, and supportive, helping clients feel understood while learning real-life strategies they can actually use outside of therapy.
Gestalt
The Gestalt Therapy “Empty Chair” technique is a powerful approach I use to help clients process unresolved trauma, grief, relationship wounds, and the emotions that often stay unspoken or emotionally stuck. Sometimes healing is less about “getting over it” and more about finally giving yourself the space to say what was never able to be said. In this process, clients are guided through a therapeutic exercise that allows them to safely express thoughts, emotions, hurt, anger, guilt, or unanswered questions connected to a person, experience, or even a version of themselves. This technique can be incredibly effective for individuals carrying unresolved pain, inner conflict, abandonment wounds, or lingering emotional weight from the past. I use this approach in a grounded and supportive way to help clients move from emotional avoidance into emotional processing. The goal is not to retraumatize, but to create clarity, release, self-understanding, and emotional resolution. Many clients find that this work helps them feel lighter, more empowered, and more connected to themselves after years of carrying emotions they never had the opportunity to fully process.
Couples Counseling
I specialize in doing couple's counseling, where the goal is to work as a team, rather than "me versus them". Communication tends to breakdown, where conflict resolution skills have decreased and assumptions are made, or reminders of the past come up to interfere with what is presenting going on. Through couple's counseling, I work to create a respectful environment, where the sessions can be used to express and process what each individual is perceiving to be reality so that we can identify solutions and measurable changes.