New to Grow
I’m a licensed mental health counselor with extensive experience helping women navigate transition, stress, emotional strain, and complex life decisions with greater clarity and steadiness. My background includes serving in senior leadership within higher education, counseling, coaching, and navigating organizational environments, which gives me a practical understanding of how emotional wellbeing is often shaped by work, caregiving, relationships, and major life responsibilities. Many of the woman I work with are thoughtful, capable, and carrying more than others realize. They often appear highly functional on the outside while privately feeling overwhelmed, depleted, uncertain, or disconnected from themselves. I help clients slow things down enough to understand what is happening beneath the surface, identify what needs attention, and move forward in ways that feel grounded and realistic. I am also a nationally certified counselor and hold a doctorate in adult and higher education.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
The first session is conversational, designed to help us understand what brings you into therapy, what feels most important right now, and what you hope may become different through counseling. We will talk about current concerns, relevant history, patterns you have noticed, and any context that helps explain where you are emotionally. There is no expectation that you arrive knowing exactly what to say or how to explain everything clearly. We begin where you are. My goal is that you leave the first session feeling understood, less alone in what you are carrying, and clearer about how therapy can help.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
One of my greatest strengths is helping clients make sense of experiences that may feel complicated, layered, or difficult to explain. I listen carefully for patterns, emotional themes, and underlying pressures that may be shaping what you are experiencing. Clients often appreciate that I bring both warmth and perspective. I am thoughtful, engaged, and direct when needed, while also creating room for honesty without judgment. And, I try to bring a little levity into challenging conversations. I also understand how environment, relationships, expectations, and life roles affect emotional wellbeing, which often helps clients see themselves more clearly and respond more intentionally.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
My ideal clients are women who are managing significant emotional, relational, or professional demands and want thoughtful support as they sort through what comes next. Some are navigating life transitions, grief, anxiety, relationship strain, caregiving pressures, identity shifts, or workplace stress. Others are simply aware that they have been carrying too much for too long and need a place to think clearly, feel honestly, and reconnect with themselves. Many are used to being dependable for others and may not always make room for their own needs until things begin to feel harder to hold.
Strength-Based
Through strengths-based therapy, we set client-driven goals to support problem solving, relationships, work performance, resilience, and overall confidence.
Solution Focused Brief Treatment
With solution-focused therapy, we focus on strengths and resources to be future-oriented and goal-driven. through a collaborative approach to implement positive changes.
Feminist
Recognizing the intersectionality of our lives, Feminist therapy allows us to work together to reach client-driven goals and outcomes through a strengths-based approach, shaped by client values.