Bio
Are you on autopilot—going through the motions, but feeling completely numb inside? Are you feeling disconnected from your own heart, emotionally distant from the people you love, and isolated from God. Inside, your mind feels like it never stops running—replaying yesterday’s conversations, overthinking what you should have done, or snapping with sudden irritability over the smallest disruptions until you don’t even recognize yourself.
I work with individuals, couples, and families navigating trauma, emotional overwhelm, and the strain of complex life transitions. I support individuals balancing high‑pressure roles, couples and families seeking deeper connection, and parents wanting stronger relationships with their teens. I also support high achievers and athletes facing performance pressure and perfectionism. For clients who desire it, I offer, faith‑integrated therapy.
Choosing a therapist isn’t like choosing a dentist—it is choosing someone to sit with you in the most tender, complicated, and beautifully messy parts of your life. Real therapy isn’t about sitting through endless, passive conversations; it’s about giving you practical, evidence-based tools designed to create meaningful, measurable change in the shortest amount of time.
The Breakthrough Solution
My therapeutic style is warm, direct, and collaborative. I draw from multiple evidence-based modalities—including IFS, CPT, ACT, MI, CBT, and Gottman—to offer individualized care tailored to your exact situation:
About Me
My clinical perspective is rooted in lived experience. I have been married for 25 years and am a mother of five. Navigating the constant multitasking required in family systems helps me connect deeply with clients carrying the emotional weight of parenting and life transitions. If your relationship with God feels distant, I also offer Christian-based counseling that honors your faith as a vital resource for healing, helping you restore peace and rediscover a grounded sense of worth and purpose.
Before entering the mental health field, I spent 20 years coaching elite dance teams, including the position of head Drill coach, one of the most demanding sports in UHSAA. This background allows me to support athletes navigating performance anxiety, high pressure environments, and the emotional demands of competitive training and team dynamics and perfectionism.
If your relationship with God feels distant, I also offer Christian-based counseling that honors your faith as a vital resource for healing, helping you restore peace and rediscover a grounded sense of purpose.
Core Areas of Focus
- Trauma, PTSD & Emotional Overwhelm: IFS (Parts Work) to help clients understand the protective parts of themselves that feel overwhelmed, shut down, or stuck in old trauma responses. By building compassionate relationships with these parts, clients experience nervoussystem relief, emotional clarity, and genuine internal healing. CPT is an evidencebased trauma treatment that uses structured cognitive restructuring and Socratic questioning to help clients examine and shift traumarelated beliefs. Through guided exploration of stuck points, CPT supports clearer thinking, reduced emotional distress, and more balanced interpretations of past experiences.
- Women’s Life Transitions & Identity: Supporting women as they navigate complex life shifts, identity changes, and the heavy emotional demands of balancing multiple high-pressure roles and issues of worth and esteem.
- Couples & Family Relational Restoration: Drawing from Gottman Method tools and hands-on experience facilitating Hold Me Tight groups to break destructive communication cycles, rebuild trust, and restore long-term connection
- Family Systems & Parenting – Practical, evidenceinformed support for navigating complex family dynamics, managing household stress, and parenting. Especially passionate about strengthening the parent–adolescent relationship. My work focuses on helping parents and their teens cultivate curiosity, open the door to deeper understanding, and rediscover joy and connection during a season of life that can feel both challenging and profoundly meaningful.
- Athlete Mental Health & Performance Coaching: Grounded in 20 years of directing and coaching elite dance teams, I integrate mental skills training and cognitive reframing to help athletes navigate performance anxiety, high-pressure competitive environments, and team dynamics while protecting their psychological well-being.
- Christian-Based & Faith-Integrated Therapy – Values-focused care to help restore spiritual connection, heal personal divides, and rediscover a grounded sense of purpose.