My practice has limited openings; please inquire. I am licensed in both Washington and Texas. Providing virtual tele-health sessions for Washington clients with an in-person option for clients in Austin, Texas. All clients accessing care virtually are being seen via HIPAA-protected video sessions. I do not use AI for any care, recording, or documentation.
Current clients, as well as past clients, can schedule sessions here.
Foundational aspects of my work with clients: Everyone is inherently worthy of love and connection. Our worthiness is a constant; therefore, separate from our emotions, thoughts, and behavior. All we hope to give to others must first be given and practiced within ourselves. Connection is essential; our bodies are loaded with everything we need to create it. Our experiences early in life shape how we approach connection. We are all emotional beings who, when emotionally regulated, have access to rational thought. Diversity, a recognition of difference, is a strength. Acknowledging and listening to understand others' lived experiences is essential to connection. Feelings are neither right nor wrong; they are information.
Individual Therapy
Weekly, emotion-focused sessions are the foundation of our work. I actively invite exploration of your symptoms, feelings, and thoughts with a non-judgmental curiosity. You will be encouraged to move away from binary ways of thinking, such as good/bad, right/wrong, and healthy/unhealthy. You are invited to view your behavior from a perspective of recognizing the adaptive and protective elements of your behavior, before making a change. Inevitably, the survival skills that once saved us can cease to function when creating lasting connections. What once worked so well no longer results in what we need. We will examine what change may look like by understanding your behavior, the thoughts that precede your choices, and most importantly, the underlying emotional needs. Meeting our imperfections with softness and understanding is how we rewrite our stories.
As your understanding of your protective or attachment style develops, we will examine how past experiences, primarily your emotional experiences, become activated in relationships, work life, periods of transition, or emotional distress. While diagnoses can help guide treatment, differentiating the self from symptoms is essential in understanding how we process and manage the world around us. You will be encouraged and supported in developing a holistic, flexible, and ongoing self-care plan. Our work will be a process of accepting where you are, identifying where your current patterns are not working, and finding ways to build the emotional resilience needed to make change.
Couples Therapy
Similar to individual work, couples will be encouraged to share their histories, understand the unspoken and invisible elements of established patterns, and initiate change by increasing their vulnerability with one another. By identifying and sharing our emotional experiences, we rewrite the stories we tell about our partners. When we are missing each other in interactions, it erodes trust in ourselves, each other, and the resulting isolation often moves partners to their most protective behavior. First identifying, then healing these hurts, is essential to realigning as a united front; couples seeing themselves as encountering distress or difficulty in life, not between one another.
Our connection with our partners must be nurtured and protected in order to withstand the storms of life.
I accept the following insurance providers: Aetna, Baylor Scott & White, Cigna, First Choice, Kaiser PPO, Medicare, Plan B (WA State Only), Optum, United Healthcare Feel free to contact me directly to discuss insurance, private pay, and billing Out of Network.
If you are in a mental health crisis, please call 911. You can also reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255). You can also text HOME to 741741 for the Crisis Text Line.