CPC, 5 years of experience
New to Grow
I’m a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor dedicated to supporting children, teens, young adult and families as they navigate stress, anxiety, emotional regulation, and everyday life challenges. I take a warm, collaborative, and developmentally sensitive approach, meeting clients exactly where they are. My goal is to help young people build coping skills, improve communication, and feel confident in their ability to manage emotions and thrive in school, at home, and in relationships.
In our first session, my goal is to help you feel comfortable and understood. We’ll take time to talk about what brought you to therapy, what you’ve been feeling, and what you’d like support with. I’ll ask gentle questions to get to know your strengths, interests, and goals. I also spend time explaining how therapy works so you always know what to expect. By the end of the session, we’ll create a plan together for what you’d like to focus on moving forward.
My strengths include building rapport quickly, offering a calm and supportive presence, and teaching practical coping skills that clients can use right away. I combine evidence-based approaches like CBT and DBT with a warm, collaborative style to help clients feel safe, motivated, and empowered.
My ideal clients are children, adolescents, and young adults experiencing challenges related to anxiety, emotional regulation, school stress, interpersonal conflict, or life transitions. I am well positioned to support clients who are motivated to develop coping strategies, improve communication, and build insight into how their thoughts and emotions affect their daily functioning. I also work effectively with families seeking structured, skills-based support grounded in CBT and DBT principles.
My primary treatment approach is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I have extensive experience using CBT with children, adolescents, and young adults across telehealth, school-based, and outpatient settings. I use CBT to help clients understand the connection between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and how these patterns influence their emotional and behavioral responses.
In practice, I focus on teaching the core DBT skill areas; mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness in developmentally appropriate ways. I break skills down into simple steps, model them, and use role-plays, visuals, and real-life examples so clients understand how to apply them.