I am a doctoral level (PhD in Clinical Psychology) clinician who has been working with children, adolescents, and adults for more than 30 years., providing services in outpatient, in-home, residential, and community settings. I have experience supervising early career counselors and have facilitated trainings on family reunification. I am also interest in providing support and treatment for mental health providers experiencing burn out and secondary traumatic stress.
I take a genuine interest in the people I serves, establishing collaborative and individualized treatment goals intermixing my personal style with the evidenced-based treatment strategies. I recognize my clients’ strengths and vulnerabilities and attempts to create a safe, respectful, confidential, and secure therapy environment.
I am trained in EMDR, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Exposure Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy for general and complex trauma, Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment (SMART), Structural Family Therapy, and complex grief.
Specialties & Clinical Interests
- ADHD
- Adoption & Fostering
- Anger Issues
- Anxiety
- Bipolar & Other Mood Disorders
- Body Image
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Bullying
- Career
- Chronic Illness
- Chronic Pain
- Criminal Justice Involvement
- Depression
- Divorce & Separation
- Domestic Abuse/Violence
- Eating Disorders
- Family Conflict
- Gambling
- Gaming
- Gender Identity
- Grief & Loss
- Internet/Social Media Addiction
- Law Enforcement/First Responders
- Learning Disabilities
- LGBTQIA+
- Life Coaching
- Men's Issues
- Mental Health Professionals
- Narcissism
- Neuropsychological Issues
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Oppositional/Defiant Behavior
- Parenting & Parent-Child Relationships
- Personality Disorders
- Pet Loss
- Phobias & Fears
- Pre-Marital & Marital Issues
- Race-Based Traumatic Stress (RBTS)
- Relationships
- School Performance
- Self-Esteem
- Self-Injury
- Sex And/Or Pornography Addiction
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Identity
- Sleep Disorders
- Stress/Stress Management
- Suicidality
- Suicide Loss
- Trauma & Ptsd
- Violence
- Women's Issues
Therapy Types
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Mindfulness
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
- Trauma-Informed Therapy
Community Specialties
- Trauma Survivors