About Me

HOW I CAN HELP:

• Helping to manage Anxiety, learning coping strategies

• Foster Care and Adoption

• Depression, learning about depression, triggers, and ways to help cope.

• Social Skills-learning ways to deal with bullying, establishing and maintaining friendships

• Trauma (I am trained in TF-CBT (Trauma-Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

• ADHD, learning ways to help with focus and time management

• Regulating Emotions, being able to identify emotions and express ourselves in healthy and positive ways, 

• Anger Management, helping kids learn ways to express their anger in ways that are not physically or verbally aggressive

• Increasing Self-Esteem

• Challenging Negative Thinking/Thought Distortions

SERVICES PROVIDED:

• Individual Therapy (Ages 6 to 21)

• Family Therapy (Helping to support the family as a whole and working on strategies, like healthy communication)

• Groups/Workshops

• Trauma Therapy

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and  have been in the mental health field for about 20 years.  I graduated from Regis University with my Masters in Psychology in 2001.  I started my path to helping kids and families when I graduated with my Bachelors in 1998 working with families doing Family Preservation to help keep families together.  I then worked in a Child Placement Agency where I worked as a therapist with children whom were placed in foster care or adoption.  I then worked in a community mental health center for 10 years and currently have been in private practice for 3 years.