CALIFORNIA, OREGON, WASHINGTON, NEVADA

A therapist who understands you holistically is priceless and can help you broach life’s challenges with empowerment and agency. Whether situational stress or untreated past trauma, therapy helps to untangle the thoughts and feelings that impair relationships, daily functioning and overall purview. Our needs are as unique as we are as individuals, and I tailor my approach to address your specific wellness agenda. Your story matters, and with a lens of compassion and curiosity, my role is to help shine light in the direction you seek in your counseling goals.

Our primary relationship has the unique potential to enrich our lives in ways no other success can. When we're in a happy and fulfilling partnership, we often become the best version of ourselves. Having a safe space to openly communicate your needs is essential for individual well-being, emotional health, and a strong relationship. In my work with couples of all identities, I blend various therapeutic approaches, including Emotionally Focused Therapy and Gottman principles, within a supportive, client-centered (Rogerian) environment. For couples dealing with relationship challenges rooted in trauma, I also incorporate trauma-informed cognitive behavioral therapy.

Families with step and/or half relatives face a complexity of stressors that may include: multiple parental figures, financial discord, child visitation schedules, integrations of faith and cultures, and deep emotional wounds. Family therapy is a positive way to allow family members to express their needs, feel heard, and find meaning in their role of the family system.

As well, single parent households entail unique stressors. Kids of single parent households may benefit from family therapy to communicate some of the grief they experience about an absent parent within a gentle, playful, and nonthreatening modality of engagement. Single parents, very especially, require validation and acknowledgment of their unique and overwhelming experience. As a former single mother of special needs children, I understand first-hand juggling the roles of mother, father, and household provider alone. My personal experience deepens my care and empathy in my clinical work with blended, single parent and special needs families.

California sessions are conducted through my two licenses as a Marriage and Family Therapist and a Professional Clinical Counselor.

California Board of Behavioral Sciences

Nevada sessions are conducted through my license as a Marriage and Family Therapist.

Nevada Board of Examiners

Washington sessions are conducted through my license as a Mental Health Counselor.

Washington State Board of Health

Oregon sessions are conducted through my license as a Professional Clinical Counselor.

Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Associates

PACIFIC NORTHWEST

I am a Certified Ecotherapy Facilitator from the Mindful Ecotherapy Center in Pacific, Washington and earned my advanced certification in Ecotherapy from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California. My doctorate in Health Science from University of the Pacific is focused on Ecotherapy interventions that consist of nature immersion and ecological advocacy as validated prescriptive measures in treatment plans addressing ecosystemic trauma.

Countless studies indicate the bidirectional dependency of wellness between humans and the natural world. Narcissistic human negligence towards ecological health is creating devastation on a macro-scale and on the micro scale of mental health. Ecotherapy practices champion personal responsibility, humility, respect, and prioritize caretaking of nature in the way we feel nurtured when immersed in natural settings. The practice of Ecotherapy is similar to treating attachment injuries. The healthier our relationship is with the natural world, the healthier we feel holistically. I encourage an evidence-based practice of Ecotherapy by beginning with psychoeducation and bibliotherapy that supports the practice.

If you are interested in an Ecotherapy experience (Portland metropolitan area only at this time), or would like me to speak at your corporate or academic institution, please send me a message on the Contact page.

*Please note: This service is exclusively for ecotherapeutic wellness of which I hold several certifications to provide.

I am an out of network provider and do not accept insurance.

Please check with your insurance company about your out-of-network benefits if you are relying upon reimbursement to pay for therapy. If your insurance carrier provides you this benefit, I can provide you monthly super bills for you to submit to your insurance company.

“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.” Carl Rogers