(he/him)
New to Grow
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Substance Abuse Counselor with experience helping adults navigate anxiety, depression, trauma, life stress, mood disorders, and substance use challenges. My approach is practical, supportive, and goal-oriented, combining evidence-based strategies such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness-based interventions to help clients build healthier coping skills, improve emotional well-being, and create lasting change. I strive to create a space where clients feel heard, challenged, and empowered in their growth.
During our first session, we will focus on getting to know one another, discussing what brings you to therapy, and identifying your goals for treatment. I will gather information about your current concerns, emotional well-being, personal history, and any challenges affecting your daily life. This session is also an opportunity for you to ask questions, share what you hope to gain from therapy, and determine whether my approach feels like the right fit for your needs. Together, we will begin creating a plan for meaningful progress.
My greatest strengths as a therapist include creating a supportive yet direct therapeutic environment where clients feel heard, respected, and challenged to grow. I take a practical, goal-oriented approach that helps clients move beyond simply discussing problems to developing actionable strategies for meaningful change. With experience in mental health and substance use treatment across multiple levels of care, I am skilled in helping clients manage anxiety, depression, trauma, emotional dysregulation, life stress, and recovery challenges while building resilience, accountability, and healthier long-term coping patterns.
I work best with adults experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, mood-related concerns, and substance use challenges. I am best positioned to support clients who are motivated for change and seeking practical, goal-oriented strategies to improve emotional well-being, manage symptoms, strengthen coping skills, navigate life transitions, improve relationships, and maintain recovery. My approach is collaborative, supportive, and focused on helping clients build resilience, increase self-awareness, develop healthier patterns, and create meaningful, lasting personal and emotional growth.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I have extensive experience using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with adults experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma-related symptoms, mood disorders, and co-occurring substance use disorders across crisis stabilization, residential, and outpatient treatment settings. In my practice, I use CBT to help clients identify unhelpful thought patterns, cognitive distortions, and behavioral cycles that contribute to emotional distress and maladaptive coping. My approach is practical, collaborative, and goal-oriented. I work with clients to challenge negative thinking, improve emotional regulation, develop healthier coping strategies, and build skills that support meaningful behavioral change. For clients with substance use concerns, I integrate CBT techniques to help identify triggers, reduce cravings, strengthen relapse prevention strategies, and increase accountability. I tailor interventions to each client’s needs while focusing on measurable progress, symptom reduction, and improved daily functioning.
Family Therapy
I have experience incorporating family therapy principles when working with individuals and families impacted by mental health challenges, substance use disorders, trauma, behavioral concerns, and relationship conflict. My work has included helping families improve communication, rebuild trust, establish healthier boundaries, and better understand how family dynamics influence emotional functioning, coping patterns, and recovery outcomes. In my practice, I use a collaborative and systems-informed approach to help families identify dysfunctional interaction patterns, strengthen problem-solving skills, and create healthier ways of supporting one another. When clinically appropriate, I involve family members to improve psychoeducation around diagnoses, recovery, relapse prevention, emotional regulation, and conflict resolution. My goal is to help families move toward healthier communication, increased accountability, stronger support systems, and improved overall functioning.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
I incorporate mindfulness-based therapeutic interventions in my work with adults experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma-related symptoms, stress, emotional dysregulation, and co-occurring substance use disorders. My clinical experience across crisis stabilization, residential, and outpatient settings has shown mindfulness to be an effective tool for helping clients increase self-awareness, reduce emotional reactivity, improve distress tolerance, and develop healthier responses to challenging thoughts, emotions, and triggers. In my practice, I use mindfulness techniques such as grounding exercises, present-moment awareness, breathing strategies, body awareness, and emotional regulation skills to help clients manage stress, anxiety, cravings, and overwhelming emotional states. I integrate mindfulness within a practical, goal-oriented treatment approach, often alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and relapse prevention strategies, to help clients build resilience, improve coping, and strengthen overall emotional well-being.