Specialities

Highly experienced in multiple areas.

Trauma and Grief

Recognizing traumatic stress symptoms and cultural factors associated with survivors is key to developing appropriate therapeutic interventions. Techniques vary but can include challenging irrational beliefs, correcting distorted thoughts and biases, role-playing, exposure with response prevention and relaxation training. 

LGBTQ

Gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth are at risk for a variety of clinical problems. Some of these problems include homophobia among family, peers, and authority figures (often expressed at school or at work), depression, suicidality, social anxiety, and body image disturbance.

Self-Worth

Self-Worth is the foundation of who we are as human beings and in today’s world is highly sought after. It plays a role in every decision we make and in every relationship we have. Working together we can replace the lies the world has told us about who we are with the truth of who we really are.

Anxiety + Stress

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has become the leading treatment for anxiety, and with good reason. Research indicates that CBT can be an effective treatment for anxiety after as few as 8 sessions, with or without any form of medication.

CBT

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a type of psychotherapeutic treatment that helps people learn how to identify and change destructive or disturbing thought patterns that have a negative influence on behavior and emotions.

Justice Involved

The overrepresentation of people with serious mental illness in the criminal justice system is a complex problem. With a focus on reducing recidivism therapy can enhance clients' motivation for change and elicit prosocial values and life priorities.

Court Involved Parenting

Involvement in any court setting can be stressful and intimidating to navigate. My unique experience with the Oklahoma Justice system gives me the skills to help clients achieve court goals while protecting parents' privacy rights in therapy.

Adoptive / Foster Parenting

TBRI® is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. TBRI® uses Empowering Principles to address physical needs, Connecting Principles for attachment needs, and Correcting Principles to disarm fear-based behaviors. While the intervention is based on years of attachment, sensory processing, and neuroscience research, the heartbeat of TBRI® is connection.

Depression

Depression affects one’s cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and physical functions. One of the most insidious aspects of depression is that it tricks you into thinking that nothing will help, or that the relief will be temporary, and it will keep you in a cycle of maladaptive thinking, feeling, and doing (or non-doing). However, there are steps one can take to cope with depression.

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Want to check and see if we're a good fit?

I firmly believe that therapy is a very individualized process, and I would be thrilled to see if I would be a good fit for you.

If at any point in our therapeutic relationship you feel we are not connecting how you hoped, I will then make it my job to find you someone who is a better fit.

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