I am passionate about working with children, adolescents, young adults, and parents. Many clients that I serve are seeking help with anxiety, depression, struggles with eating disorder patterns, poor body image, social anxiety, low self-esteem, and parenting support. I enjoy assisting people identify and explore thoughts and feelings in a way that assist with perspective taking and understanding ways that past relationships may influence current relationship struggles.

I strive to connect with my clients through my direct, compassionate, and creative nature. I enjoy assisting others build insight, increase perspective taking, and experience self-discovery that can lead to long-term personal growth. I assist college students through talk and expressive art therapy to help develop life skills that can help increase empowerment, assertiveness, and self-care.  As with working with adults of all ages, I enjoy assisting college students explore parts of themselves by acknowledging how life experiences may influence one’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. For younger clients, I enjoy using toys, art, and other creative ways in therapy to connect and help children “work through” feelings and learn healthy, powerful ways to engage with others in their world. I am passionate about assisting parents and children learn to identify, tolerate, and regulate intense emotions that can interfere with parent-child relationships, school performance, peer relations, and self-esteem.

Making the decision to start therapy can come with apprehension. I believe your best judgement guided you to search for the right therapist. I have a direct and compassionate style of working with children, adolescents, college students, and adults. I assist clients in reducing anxiety and depression in order to feel confident, achieve a healthier sense of self, and live in accordance to their values. I believe honoring one’s intuition is the key to healing- whether that be through play therapy, creative art interventions, or talk therapy. I enjoy helping others explore their identity and to accept various parts of themselves.

Therapy can be such a powerful gift and I strive to assist in being a catalyst for change in my clients’ lives. Change can be uncomfortable and, often times, necessary for growth. I believe that finding a therapist that will assist with supporting you and challenging you can help lead to healthy outcomes, including positive change and growth.

I specialize in treating eating disorders and issues that occur at the same time, such as trauma, anxiety and depression. I have treated eating disorders for about a decade in the following settings: as a program manager and therapist in an intensive inpatient and outpatient psychiatric hospital, residential treatment, colleges, community mental health agencies, group practice, and private practice. I also use play therapy to assist children work through feelings related to anxiety, divorce, depression, trauma, eating issues, and behavioral issues.