I am comfortable working with tweens, adolescents, adults, seniors, families, and couples. I partner with my clients in unpacking life’s difficulties and empower them to overcome obstacles in life with a listening and empathetic heart. I value trust, understanding, and mutual respect in the therapeutic relationship as we work together to cultivate personal insight, skillfulness, confidence, and growth.

My clients experience a warm and safe environment where personal growth and healing can happen.

I have relevant training and extensive experience with providing evidence-based care to clients facing a wide range of conditions and challenges, including but not limited to: 

• Trauma and PTSD

• Anxiety and Worry

• OCD

• Addictions

• Substance Use Disorders

• Men’s Issues

• Anger Management

• Major Depression

• Grief and Loss

• Difficult life transitions 

• Interpersonal challenges, including marriage and family conflict

• Parenting/attachment struggles

I pull extensively from the following treatment approaches:

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy

• Exposure therapies such as Prolonged Exposure and Exposure and Response Prevention

• Person-centered

• Solution-focused

• Motivational Interviewing

• Experiential

I am passionate about using approaches with the best data to help clients meet their goals.

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and a graduate of the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary with an MA in Professional Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy. I earned my BS degree in Psychology from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Over the past 18 years, I have worked to meet the mental health needs of clients across a variety of populations and settings including community mental health, meeting the needs of the chronically and persistently mentally ill, in private practice working with a variety of presenting issues including working with children and families, and in teen residential treatment helping teens and their families forge a new path toward recovery from addictions and other life-interfering problems. I have also volunteered my time counseling and facilitating groups at local church ministries. I am dedicated to providing compassionate, quality care that is individually tailored to meet my clients’ needs.