Life can send unexpected events our way and sometimes we may find ourselves ill-equipped to manage alone with one or multiple life transitions. In these times, it’s important to find resources to help cope, heal and move beyond adversity with new insight, awareness, and hope.
Some of us may also find we have histories that seem to repeat themselves in our families and patterns of behavior that haunt us or prevent us from moving in the direction we most desire. Families of origin have come to play a role in our current lives through our fears and insecurities no matter how much love existed in our families. This is an all too familiar phenomenon and comes to us through our own humanity. But, we, as adults have the capacity to weigh and consider what we want to keep and change what we choose to change.
It is my desire to guide you to experience the healing and growth toward self-awareness and empowerment. Working collaboratively with your goals, I will support you in creating small steps toward change. Added together, these changes create a profound impact toward increasing the quality and awareness of life. My desire as a therapist is to develop a trusting relationship with you to guide you through the process of creating meaningful and lasting change.
My hope is that all clients are free to live an authentic life, one which can produce inner peace, purpose and direction. I am often reminded of one of my favorite quotes by Rumi, “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” I see and experience this every day and feel honored and privileged to stand at the window where the light streams in. Thank you for the honor of earning your trust.
Clinical Experience and Training:
I have clinical experience working with children, adults, couples, and families and specialize in working with teens through senior adult. I find tremendous reward working with individuals and relationships while working with self-improvement, communication issues, life transitions, grief and loss.
My first career was in legal advocacy for 21 years. I received my bachelor’s degree is in judicial government with an associate’s degree in legal studies. With a minor in psychology, I returned post-graduate to complete my masters in community mental health counseling from Rueckert-Hartman College of Health Professions of Regis University in Denver. Currently, I am a licensed clinical psychotherapist and counselor practicing in Fort Collins, Colorado.
My previous experience has encompassed practice at Casa of Larimer County, Jefferson Center for Mental Health in Denver, Integrative Behavioral Health at UC Health Colorado, and Heart-Centered Counseling in Fort Collins.
I am an active member in “good standing” of DORA, The Department of Regulatory Agencies in Colorado, the American Counseling Association, Colorado Counseling Association and the International Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.
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