(she/her)
New to Grow
I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who specializes in helping individuals and couples navigate betrayal trauma, compulsive sexual behaviors, ADHD-related challenges, relationship distress, and emotional overwhelm. I use a compassionate, trauma-informed approach that integrates attachment-focused therapy, emotional regulation, and values-based change to help clients better understand themselves and create healthier patterns in their lives and relationships. My goal is to help clients move out of shame, fear, and disconnection and toward greater self-awareness, healing, trust, and alignment with the person they want to become. I am comfortable using faith-based practices.
In our first session, my goal is to create a safe, supportive, and nonjudgmental space where we can begin understanding what brings you to therapy and what you hope to gain from the process. We will talk about your current concerns, relevant background experiences, relationship patterns, strengths, and goals for therapy. I also want to understand what has and has not been helpful for you in the past so we can tailor therapy to your unique needs. You can expect our first session to feel collaborative and conversational rather than pressured or overwhelming. My approach is compassionate, trauma-informed, and focused on helping you feel understood while also identifying practical directions for growth and healing.
What stands out about my approach is the combination of compassion, accountability, and deep emotional work. I help clients move beyond simply managing symptoms by understanding the underlying emotional, relational, and nervous system patterns driving their struggles. I integrate evidence-based and experiential approaches including EMDR, Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). This allows me to tailor therapy to each client’s needs while helping them build emotional regulation, self-awareness, healthier relationships, and lasting behavioral change. I specialize in working with betrayal trauma, compulsive sexual behaviors, ADHD-related challenges, attachment wounds, and relationship distress. Clients often tell me they appreciate that therapy with me feels both emotionally safe and practically helpful. I balance insight and compassion with directness, structure, and meaningful action steps. My goal is to help clients reduce shame, strengthen self-trust, improve connection in relationships, and create lives that feel more aligned with their values and goals.
I am best positioned to work with adolescents, adults, and couples who are feeling stuck in patterns that no longer align with the person, relationships, or life they want to create. Many of the clients I work with are struggling with shame, emotional overwhelm, compulsive behaviors, betrayal trauma, attachment wounds, ADHD-related challenges, relationship distress, or difficulty regulating emotions and behaviors under stress. I specialize in working with individuals and couples navigating compulsive sexual behaviors, pornography-related concerns, betrayal trauma, trust repair, and relational disconnection. I also work extensively with clients experiencing ADHD-related overwhelm, impulsivity, emotional dysregulation, anxiety, self-criticism, and executive functioning struggles. My approach is especially helpful for clients who feel trapped between knowing what they want intellectually and struggling to consistently live in alignment with their values emotionally or behaviorally. Many of my clients are highly self-aware but continue to feel stuck in cycles of shame, avoidance, fear, disconnection, or reactivity. I use an integrative, trauma-informed, and attachment-focused approach that combines emotional processing, nervous system regulation, values-based action, and relational healing. I help clients better understand the underlying emotional and protective patterns driving behavior so they can build greater self-awareness, self-trust, emotional regulation, and healthier relationships. I am also comfortable working with faith-based clients, including LDS individuals and couples, and supporting clients in aligning therapeutic work with their personal values, beliefs, and relationship goals.
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
I use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients become more psychologically flexible instead of getting stuck in shame, avoidance, compulsive behaviors, or fear-based patterns. I help clients identify what matters most to them, learn how to tolerate difficult emotions without being controlled by them, and take actions that align with their values and long-term goals.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
I am an Internal Family Systems-informed therapist, which I use to help clients understand the different emotional patterns and protective strategies operating within them. Many clients have parts of themselves that are trying to protect them from shame, rejection, fear, or pain, but those strategies can sometimes create problems in relationships or behavior. I help clients develop greater self-awareness, compassion, accountability, and internal regulation so they can respond more intentionally from a self-led place instead of reactively.
EMDR
I have an EMDR certification in advanced EMDR techniques and use EMDR to help clients process unresolved trauma, attachment wounds, negative beliefs, and emotionally charged experiences that continue to impact their present functioning. I often integrate EMDR with attachment-based and experiential approaches to help clients reduce reactivity, improve emotional regulation, and shift long-standing beliefs related to shame, inadequacy, rejection, or fear. I am also certified in Accelerated Resolution Therapy and use it to help clients process distressing memories, reduce emotional reactivity, and shift the way painful experiences continue to impact them in the present. ART can be especially effective for trauma, anxiety, intrusive imagery, shame, and emotionally overwhelming experiences because it helps clients process memories in a way that is often efficient, emotionally tolerable, and deeply regulating.
Biofeedback
I use HeartMath-informed interventions to help clients recognize when they are becoming emotionally dysregulated and learn practical strategies to regulate their nervous system in real time. Many clients struggle with chronic stress, emotional flooding, impulsivity, anxiety, or shutdown responses. HeartMath techniques help clients increase emotional regulation, improve self-awareness, and feel more grounded and present.