Love is eternal. Our love is unique, and so is our grief. We all grieve differently and having a safe and intentional place to process your grief, your story, and to remember and share about your experience of your loved one, and your loss can make all the difference in the world when navigating the waves in this life.

I am a licensed mental health therapist and provide clinical services to children, adolescents and adults focusing on a variety of issues including life transitions, anxiety, depression, adjustment disorders, personality disorders, thought disorders, relational issues, grief/loss, complex trauma and attachment issues. I provide psychotherapy and support for those experiencing the traumatic impacts of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect. Also serving couples struggling to maintain and/or regain connection with each other.

Specialized Grief Related Experience in:

Specific and Complex Trauma

Anticipatory Grief

Ambiguous Loss

Rituals for Bereavement, Grief and Loss

Pregnancy and Loss

I incorporate somatic intervention into my sessions and one can also expect traditional talking through and witnessing, psycho-education, as well as creative expression including: artwork, poetry, music, writing, gardening/growing, cooking and creating rituals.

Telehealth (for adults) or In-Person Sessions (all ages) available. Outpatient clinical services in Minnesota.

I offer individual counseling to adults and adolescents (age 15+) located in the state of North Carolina. Though I work with a variety of presenting client concerns, I have a particular passion in working with individuals experiencing grief/bereavement, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. I provide in-person or telehealth meeting options.

I offer individual online therapy for adults 18 years and older who are experiencing mental health issues related to life transitions including grief and loss, change in lifestyles, family dynamic changes and other typical and potentially stressful life transitions.

Over my 37+ years in the field, I have been searching for what modality of therapy will best serve those seeking mental health services.

What I have found, and psychotherapeutic research has proved, is the therapist is the key change ingredient in most successful therapy. Therapy can provide a space where a person is listened, felt, and experienced at such a concentrated level of sharing with emphasis on every aspect of communication.

I believe the qualities of an ideal therapist is one who can listen intensely, be nonjudgmental, ego subordinate and unconditionally present. The therapist demonstrates and models how to struggle against seemingly destructive personality habits and how to live more open and less defensively.

The therapist presenting as an authentic person that clients can feel comfortable enough with to be open and self-revealing will be key to an optimal therapeutic relationship.

“Effective therapists do not attempt to fit their clients into a particular theoretical model; instead, they try to learn from them and in effect, gradually develop a uniquely personal psychological theory for each individual.” -Robert Firestone, PhD

In other words, the client is the “expert” concerning their lives. This expertise may be unconscious. Through therapy with an open and self-aware therapist, the process becomes a journey of helping the client, within the therapeutic relationship, to be more conscious, therefore empowered to pursue a healthier lifestyle. This requires a therapist to interact in the relationship not only intellectually, but also intuitively.

I use elements of somatoemotional release, psychodynamic and feminist psychotherapies to help inform the work that is done, but primarily the client is the therapy and present moment focus is always on the forefront of the therapeutic process.

Mental Health Therapist

Relationship and Purpose Coach

Certified Grief Educator