Online counseling services:

Grief counseling.
Couple therapy.
clinical hypnosis
spiritual therapy

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist providing the following:

• Grief counseling
  • Certified Grief Educator through completing a certificate program designed by world-renowned grief expert David Kessler
  • Committed to providing the highest level of grief support through education, experience, and insights into the often unacknowledged rocky terrain of grief
• General psychotherapy
  • Compassionate, strength-based approach
  • Mindfulness
  • Cognitive behavioral therapies
  • Acceptance and commitment therapy
  • Positively focused brain-based therapies

Background:

• Became a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in 2015 after retiring from a 28-year career as an educator, K through university, in the California public schools and CSU system, inspired by the needs of former students with mental health issues.
• Became a certified grief educator after being part of David Kessler’s Tender Hearts group following the loss by suicide of my younger daughter in 2021.
• Experienced serving clients and families with a wide range of issues, including anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction.
• In addition to having a private practice I work two days a week providing psychiatric evaluations and therapeutic support for patients in crisis in a Hospital Emergency Room.

Education

Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy

University of San Francisco, December, 2009

Master of Arts in Education, Reading and Literacy

Sonoma State University, June, 2001

California Teaching Credential, Multiple Subject

Dominican University, January, 1988

Bachelor of Arts, Art History, Cum Laude

New York University, June, 1974

Psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and families in-person in the DFW Metroplex and virtually in Nevada, Montana, Texas, and South Carolina.

Imagine feeling calm, confident, grounded, hopeful, and at ease in your life. If you’re having difficulty finding balance, experiencing increased anxiety, feeling stressed out, overwhelmed, scared, frustrated, angry, or just plain stir crazy and cooped up – I understand and can help. What you’re experiencing is normal and together we can get you to a place that allows you to embrace the mess, minimize stress, and find calm in the chaos while embracing the uncertainty.

My therapeutic style is active and engaged. I provide clients with empowering tools to become self-efficient in society, relationships, work and life. We will work together to find the treatment type that is best for you.
I offer counseling services to individuals who are struggling with anxiety, depression, life transitions, grief, and trauma issues. Each client’s needs and goals require an individual approach, which I accommodate through the integration of psychodynamic, solution-focused, and person-centered approaches while using CBT interventions.
I provide non-judgmental support and understanding. I believe in meeting clients where they are on their emotional journey while maintaining a safe place in which the client can challenge themselves.