I knew from an early age that I love to empower people to reach their goals. My professional career began as an elementary school teacher. While teaching, I realized that I was drawn to help people with their issues that could not be left at the classroom door, and so I decided to pursue a career in counseling.

I enjoy working with clients of varied ages. I have successfully assisted clients to reach their goals as they faced a variety of issues, such as: relationship difficulties, depression, anxiety, PTSD, homelessness, divorce, academic difficulties, attention deficit, anger management, assault survival, and inmate transition back into society. I have also worked well with clients from disadvantaged backgrounds: low-income individuals, first-generation college students, and individuals with disabilities.

I am most excited to work with clients who are motivated to find solutions to their life puzzles. Additionally, I enjoy working with clients who are open to non-traditional and creative approaches to finding and reaching their solutions. Even if client motivation and creativity is not present at first, I enjoy helping clients build these important components of the therapeutic process.

I would love for all clients to know that solutions do exist for their life puzzles. Counseling is a lot like getting the oil changed in our cars, or having our teeth cleaned by the dentist. Counseling is “mental hygiene”.

A career with Thriveworks is a natural fit for my professional and personal lifestyle and needs. As a parent of a special needs child, I need to be readily available to provided additional care for my family. The flexible schedule and understanding staff at Thriveworks, allow me to have a cohesive work/personal life balance.

Without a doubt, I am inspired by creativity! I love the expressive arts and find them to be very therapeutic. Whether it's photography, painting, drawing, etc., I find the arts to be extremely rewarding and inspiring.

It is important that we make sure all the required paperwork work is taken care of. After we've made certain that the paperwork is in order, we'll have a discussion about your background, interests, strengths, supports, and goals for our meetings. We'll also start planning our session frequency.

I hope for us to start building rapport and collaborating on identifying 1-3 starter goals for us to work on in our future sessions.

I am a positive and enthusiastic professional. I will not call you my "patient". The way I consider our professional relationship, is that you are my "client" and I work for you. I will not tell you what your goals are but we will discuss what your goals could be and you will be the one to identify what goal you want for us to focus on.

I love time together with my family (indoors and outdoors) and creating visual art.

I have a unique, empathetic perspective.