About My Counseling Services
I provide empathy, warmth, and compassion to be with your struggles, and to help you to move through your stuck points to a state of feeling well in a safe environment. You will remember that you are in charge of your healing, and the potential for how you want to grow is up to you. You will remember what it is like to feel self-empowered.
We will work on challenging your thoughts together, in a supportive way, to transform yourself into healthier thinking patterns. Through expressive art therapy and present-moment awareness techniques, I may encourage you to get out of your head and into your body, to move into stronger ways of well-being. We may investigate the internal parts of yourself that make you act certain ways, and shift those parts so that you feel more in balance. We may look at how to change some actions that you are doing that just don’t work anymore.
I offer my counseling services in-person and virtually via telehealth in Northern Colorado. I am also available for telehealth counseling sessions for residents of North Carolina.
Therapy Designed with You in Mind
I design your treatment plan to work for you, and it could change depending on what is going on with your progress. Each person or couple is unique with what they need. At the beginning of our work together, it is important to commit to attending regular sessions so that you will start to feel better faster. By staying consistent with attending sessions and completing homework between sessions, the results of your effort will show.
My Experience as a Therapist
I am called to this work and have always enjoyed things a bit off the beaten path. I am passionate about helping people work through emotional problems and challenges! We have a body-mind-spirit connection that is working together all the time. In our therapy sessions, we work on bridging that connection together. I may refer you to other professionals that can guide you along your journey to help you continue working on feeling balanced.
I am a National Certified Counselor which means I have met national standards that I abide by to serve you. In 2020, I moved to Colorado after 15 years in the magical Appalachian mountains of Western North Carolina, where I learned a lot, including being trained for my Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (CMHC) from Lenoir Rhyne Graduate Studies in Asheville. I grew up in the beautiful sunset and farm-rich southwestern region of Michigan, and obtained my Bachelor of Arts in Special Education from Michigan State University in 2004.
I have enjoyed helping diverse groups of people in many places for years, both in volunteer situations and professionally. Traveling extensively and being a part of interesting life experiences have all shaped my love for people. After being a Special Education teacher for ages three to 12, teaching people with special needs eventually led me to pursue my advanced CMHC degree to get more to the root of people’s life challenges. I have worked with homeless populations and in psychiatric hospitals, as well as in home and school environments. Clinically, I have worked with many ages and populations to help people who have been part of inpatient, residential, and outpatient mental health settings.
If you are interested in learning more about my approach to psychotherapy or my experience, I would love to talk with you.
"And then the day came
when the risk to remain
closed tightly in a bud
became more painful
than the risk it took
to blossom."
— Anais Nin