Credentials

Licensed Professional Counselor Associate

I am under the supervision of Kevin Fall, Ph.D., LPC-S

Education & Training

Masters in Mental Health Counseling - Texas State University

200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training - Practice Yoga

How I work with people

I meet you where you are by combining various perspectives:

  • Heart-Centered Therapy: focuses on authentically connecting with the client, and on both the emotional and physical aspects of well-being. It involves processing unresolved emotions to facilitate healing and evoke positive emotions such as compassion, forgiveness, and gratitude.

  • Trauma-Informed Care: recognizes and responds to the impact of trauma on individuals. It emphasizes creating a supportive environment, building trust, and focusing on strengths and resilience.

  • Psychodynamic Theory: focuses on self awareness and the influence of the past on present behavior to find the roots of suffering.

  • Relational Therapy and Attachment-based Therapy: focuses on understanding and improving the way we relate to others by processing past attachment experiences, identifying patterns of behavior, and developing healthier relationship skills. The therapeutic relationship between the client and therapist is central to the process, serving as a model for healthier relationships. 

  • Existential Therapy: explores questions about human existence, such as meaning, freedom, responsibility, and mortality, to help people find purpose and authenticity in their lives. It emphasizes personal responsibility and the choices individuals make to shape their experiences.

  • Mindfulness: uses different techniques to bring attention to the present moment, and build awareness of thoughts and feelings.

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: empowers individuals to live a more fulfilling life by accepting the challenges that come with it and committing to actions that align with their values.

  • Parts work: based on the idea from Internal Family Systems, that within each person, there are multiple sub-personalities that interact with one another. When the wants and needs of parts clash, it can create inner conflict. Parts work helps people resolve inner conflicts and develop a healthier relationship with themself.

Values in my work: humility, my own self-reflection, and acceptance of all diversity. I do not use diagnosis. I believe our behavior is an attempt to survive the best we can at the time. You have the freedom to decide if these patterns are useful or not to you, and align with your values.

How can psychotherapy help?

  • It can help you find awareness of how your past affects your present.

  • You can learn how you relate to others in your life through your relationship with your therapist.

  • By noticing patterns in your behavior, you can empower yourself and live a fuller, more authentic life.

  • You can re-attune to your needs if you have focused on attuning to others and tend to have codependent or imbalanced relationships.

  • It can help you feel more connected to yourself, have a greater capacity to connect with others and find meaning in your pain.

  • Deepening your self trust can help you be closer to and trust others.

  • Learning to trust your inner radar, can help you put yourself in new situations, and no longer choose situations that are not healthy for you.

  • Being unconditionally accepted by your therapist, can help you find more acceptance and compassion for yourself and others.

About me & my perspective on healing

I enjoy being in the water and the sun, music, photography and exercise. I created all the nature photos on my website. I value a deep connection to nature and believe all things are interconnected.

I think most people in healing professions are here because we are also trying to come back home to ourselves. Thank you for joining me on the ride. It’s an honor to walk with you.

I like the idea of the upward spiral. We circle around the same lessons over and over, learning deeper layers of the lessons as we go. Sometimes we might feel we aren't making "progress," but if we take a step back and look at the bigger picture, we are spiraling upwards.