Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)

Welcome!  I'm so glad you're here.  I believe that every person should get to be the hero of their own story. Too often life gets in the way of this, and things like depression, anxiety, low self esteem, unhealthy relationships, poor boundaries and the daily stressors that we all deal with can make us feel like the tragic side character in a story we often forget we have a lot more control over than we realize.

My goal in therapy is to be a witness to whatever struggles you are going through and to walk with you through them, offering hope and an outside perspective along the way, helping you foster the insight needed to create lasting, positive change. Sometimes we just need an impartial, non-judgmental person to actively listen and understand what we’re going through, and that alone can be enough to ease our emotional burden. It is my privilege and my pleasure to work with adolescents and adults in individual therapy as we endeavor to remove and minimize roadblocks to you becoming the main character of your own beautiful story.

I am an inclusive therapist and am open to working with anyone, regardless of background. I have a special heart for working with men dealing with midlife issues, partner relational issues and societal stressors/pressures of daily life. I also embrace and love working with the queer community and consider myself to be an ally and advocate. I am a mother of two boys and love working with moms around the emotional and mental strain of parenting, whether you're recently post-partum or have older kids.

I approach therapy from a Brief Solution Focused framework, with a heavy dose of strength-based, supportive counseling mixed in. If you don't really know why you're going to therapy and just want someone to poke around in every unhappy memory and come up with years of issues to work on, I'm probably not the therapist for you. I tend to be present-focused and want to know what's getting in the way of you living your best life today so we can work together to find actionable solutions so you can start living a happier tomorrow. I tend to be blunt and use a lot of humor in my approach (in therapy and in life), and I can get along with just about anyone who comes at the world with kindness and respect. I see a lot of clients dealing with depression, anxiety, life/state of the world stress and relational issues in my practice, and it's my belief that we're all just "normal people with normal problems" doing the best we can. If this sounds like something that you relate to, please reach out.  I look forward to doing good work with you!

Services Offered

Therapy for Teens and Individual Therapy for Adults

Qualifications

• License and State: LPC-14417 Arizona
• BA in Psychology from Arizona State University (2005)
• Master of Counseling from Arizona State University (2009)
• Experience: Individual outpatient therapy (child and adult) at a community mental health center and crisis evaluations in a hospital setting. Private practice since 2024.