LPC, 20 years of experience
Welcome! I am a licensed counselor, a board certified registered art therapist and a registered play therapist. I am a college professor of counseling and art therapy and have been practicing for almost 20 years. I love working with people to trust who they are and becoming their most authentic selves.
In our first session, we start with reviewing the paperwork and confidentiality; address your initial concerns and work on setting goals together. You are in charge of your therapy and I am there to support you in the process, so I want to hear about your needs.
I am compassionate, creative and open. I believe in my clients' abilities to care for themselves, know their own needs, and express the wonderful people they are. I have many years of experience as a create therapist and counselor and see time and time again how amazing my clients can be when they have the support they need.
I enjoy working with people from adolescence through the late years that are interested in learning about themselves, open to self reflection and who need someone to lean on. I love seeing my clients become themselves, trust themselves, and heal from the many traumas/hurts they have experienced in their lives. My goal is to help you be you and to grow in a healthy manner.
I prefer to use CPT with persons who have a history of PTSD as a way to work with the cognitive fallacies that often surround such a diagnosis.
I find DBT is a great intervention to use while trying to understand and manage large emotions.
I am affirming with all clients on gender, sexuality, expression, identity, and affection.
I always start any therapy from a person-centered approach because each of us are unique and we each have our own needs. I believe in unconditional positive regard and then move to other theories as needed by the client.
I like to use compassion, self-compassion and acceptance approaches to therapy to explore self and past/present behaviors.