Life can feel overwhelming at times, especially when navigating stress, anxiety, school challenges, or major life transitions. I provide a supportive and nonjudgmental space where children, adolescents, and individuals can feel heard, understood, and empowered. Together, my clients and I work to build healthy coping skills, strengthen emotional resilience, and develop practical strategies to navigate life with greater confidence and balance.

 

I am a Licensed Master’s Level Social Worker dedicated to supporting the emotional and behavioral well-being of children, adolescents, and individuals. I take a compassionate, strengths-based, and collaborative approach to help clients navigate challenges, build resilience, and develop healthier ways of coping.

 

I have experience working in a variety of settings, including schools, residential mental health programs, and hospital environments. These experiences have allowed me to support individuals facing a wide range of emotional, behavioral, and life challenges.

 

With over four years of experience working with children, adolescents, and individuals, my goal is to help clients feel supported while learning practical skills that improve emotional well-being, relationships, and overall quality of life. My therapeutic approaches draw from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, a Strengths-Based Approach, and Trauma-Informed Care.

 

For individuals who value faith as part of their healing journey, I also offer counseling that respectfully integrates spiritual beliefs while addressing emotional and mental health challenges.

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Here are some of my strengths and modalities:

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Areas Treated:

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• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

• Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)

• Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Trauma

• Behavioral concerns in home, school, and community

• Family conflict

• Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse

• Adjustment Disorder resulting from

  • accident

  • medical or mental health diagnosis

  • Job Loss

 

Methodologies:

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Psychotherapy is what most people think of when they think about therapy.  This mode of therapy includes discussing challenging topics with your therapist and utilizing discussion to work through them.  There are different types of psychotherapy, you and your therapist will determine what will work best for your situation.  The different types include:

• Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) - This form of therapy helps clients reframe and restructure maladaptive thought patterns and practices.

• Interpersonal therapy (IPT) - This is considered to be a short-term treatment usually focused on a particular topic of concern.  The goal is to focus on underlying issues that are leading to challenges in one's life.  

• Psychodynamic therapy - this form of therapy helps reveal underlying or unrecovered challenges from childhood that may be impacting ones life currently.  There is a strong focus on the unconscious mind and how it impacts one's actions in the present.  

• Supportive therapy - this approach uses guidance and encouragement to help clients live their best lives.  Through building self-esteem and self-confidence, clients gain greater coping skills and function at a higher level reducing symptoms of anxiety, depression and feelings of hopelessness. 

• Positive Psychotherapy (PPT) - taking a different approach to working on personal challenges, PPT focuses on increasing positive emotion, engagement, and meaning rather than directly targeting depressive symptoms.  For example; rather than trying to decrease or eliminate sadness, it instead focuses on increasing happiness and well-being.

 

Motivational Interviewing

The goal of motivational interviewing is to help clients move toward change by helping them resolve their ambivalence toward change and help them find meaningful reasons for making these changes.  This approach does not simply instruct the client what to do, rather it seeks to determine the clients goals and motivation for change so they will want to move toward it on their own free will. 

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