My Approach

I approach therapy by being intentionally welcoming, empathetic, and supportive. I also find that when appropriately timed, humor, and direct honesty, can be effective tools for change. I provide a space where clients can be vulnerable and grow through personalized and evidence-based practices. 

I typically use Internal Family Systems* (IFS) to help clients connect with and understand parts of themselves that don't "make sense". This connection leads to opportunities for unburdening, healing, new habits and forward movement. 

I may also use Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)*  or Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)* techniques when appropriate. Ultimately, I tailor my therapeutic approach to the needs of my clients. 

I work with adult clients who are seeking help with the following issues: 

• Trauma  
• Developmental and attachment wounds 
• Anxiety 
• Depression 
• Life transitions  
• Shame/self-worth 
• Self-awareness 
• Relationships
• Spirituality and Faith

• I am an IFS Informed Therapist. In 2022 I completed a 5 day IFS training with Brandt Ratcliff and in 2023 I completed a 6 month “IFS Online Circle” training, facilitated by the IFS Institute. I also participate in regular consultation with a certified IFS therapist. IFS is a transformative, evidence-based psychotherapy that helps people heal by accessing and loving their protective and wounded inner parts. IFS believes the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Just like members of a family, inner parts are forced from their valuable states into extreme roles within us. IFS believes we all have a core Self that can’t be damaged and knows how to heal. By helping people first access their Self and, from that core, come to understand and heal their parts, IFS creates inner and outer connectedness.

• I completed EMDR Basic Training in 2016 and am currently working to become EMDR Certified. Certification includes consultation, continuing education, and completion of a minimum number of EMDR sessions. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method that helps people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences, including PTSD, anxiety, depression, and more. It is a structured  therapy that encourages the patient to focus on the trauma memory while  simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye  movements), which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and  emotion associated with the trauma memories  

• Spirituality and Faith-My training is in traditional psychotherapeutic modalities and not in faith-based modalities. I am comfortable helping clients integrate their faith into therapy if they wish, whether this is a source of strength and hope, or of pain and hurt. Because I am a Christian, and have read extensively about Christian therapeutic perspectives, I can speak directly to some experiences that Christians have. However, conversations of faith do not need to be limited to Christianity.