My therapeutic work with children, teens, and families begins with building a trusting relationship based on presence, mutual respect, collaboration, curiosity, and exploration. Starting from a person-centered approach, we will work together to identify appropriate interventions with your child’s or family’s unique needs in mind. We will use experiential and mindfulness practices that help children, teens, and families increase their connection to themselves and others, and promote self-awareness and agency within the family and community systems of which they are a part. Nature and play will also have an important role in the counseling process.

Within the safety of our therapeutic relationship, we will identify and explore the emotions, thoughts, ideas, patterns, and behaviors that are currently present while also identifying, exploring, and experiencing new ones. I am trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and am happy to use it when it’s a good fit. EMDR is a therapeutic model that involves identifying negative ideas that we have about ourselves and the world and reworking them so that they can help to shape more positive ideas about ourselves and the world. EMDR has been established by over 40 years of clinical research as an effective tool for treating symptoms of trauma.

I have experience supporting children and teens who are living with anxiety, depression, grief and loss, trauma, attachment disruptions, relationship and family concerns, challenges with emotion and mood regulation, and questions of meaning and purpose. I also have experience supporting families in developing new ways of relating to each other, addressing communication and behavior concerns, and co-parenting.

In my personal life I love spending time with my family and our pets, being in my garden or in the woods, reading and learning about new things, and working on creative projects by myself or with other people.