About Me

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Our sessions integrate talk, mindfulness, and emotional exploration to nurture your inner self. I create space for diverse cultures, genders, and intense emotions like anger or confusion, maintaining a cooperative, direct environment. Specializing in all forms of trauma and attachment, my work is rooted in your and my unique depth. For a more technical chat about my education and methods, feel free to reach out—I'm open and eager to connect.

Personal History

I spent my early years in California in the northwest end of the LA valley – born in the Northridge hospital. I’ve moved northward throughout my life. After a decade of work with Children and Families in Seattle, Washington I moved to Kansas City and built my practice in Overland Park. I have a variety of interests outside of my work as a professional therapist. I value learning and playing. I am always drawn to culture, religion and myth and am often caught reading a fairy tale or brushing up on mythological characters. Movement integrates both psycho-emotional and physiological health, and I work in my life through many intentional movement practices. Kansas City is home now. I’ve been getting to know this place — its people, its rhythms, its particular kind of openness — and I’ve taken up smoking meats as a way of getting involved. I grew up being told I was dyslexic, and at about twenty five, I had this diagnosis confirmed and do not regret receiving or accepting this confirmation. Most notable in my life is my complete and utter passion for people and relationship. This passion leads continually to a committed love for my work as a therapist, work that inundates every aspect of my life. I often hear that people do not love what they do; I love being a therapist.

Professional History

I began my work in the mental health field as a Job Coach and Counselor under private contract for the State of Oregon. I completed my B.A. in the Liberal Arts through a Great Books curriculum in Eugene, Oregon. After graduation, I accepted the role of Community Life Director for my alma mater. This gave me greater experience with the many college age issues of life and allowed me to find my love of therapeutic relationships. I moved to Seattle and attended Saybrook University’s LIOS program. There I received my Masters in Psychology with a specialization in counseling. I am licensed as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Washington State and am now currently a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Kansas. For a decade my work has been split into two contexts: half my time has been spent working at Jumping Mouse Children’s Center in Port Townsend, Washington; and the other half in private practice with adults and couples in Seattle, Washington. After that decade, I moved to Kansas City and made it home, opening my current practice in Overland Park. I hold an active LCPC license here in Kansas, and I’ve been steadily getting to know the families, the clinicians, and the rhythms of this community — the realities people actually live with in this part of the country, which are not the same as the ones I came from, and which I’m grateful to be learning.

My primary experience is in relationships, whether that be parent to child, partner to partner, individual to peers or family of origin. Below is a list of the models of therapy that have most influenced me (in no particular order):

  • Depth Psychology
  • Various Attachment Theories
  • Dream Work
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Internal Family Systems
  • Bowenian Family Systems
  • Somatic Therapies
  • Sandtray Therapy
  • Gestalt Therapy
  • Humanistic Psychology
  • Existential Psychology

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