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I am a licensed professional therapist currently based in Tennessee. I graduated with a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy, with a certificate in Trauma Therapy. My experience includes working with couples, families, college students, and children from age 8-teens. I provide premarital counseling, marriage therapy, sex therapy, and individual therapy. I have worked with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, abuse, adoption issues, and adjustment disorders.
My therapy style involves understanding the client from their point of view. I work from a holistic view, believing all systems of the body; physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual, help in the healing process. I especially love emotionally focused therapy and narrative therapy, but include other therapies such as cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and family systems. I have been trained in EMDR and have found it can be utilized in many areas, but especially with trauma.
Before becoming a therapist I worked as an RN for 20 years, graduating with my Bachelor’s degree from Baylor University. Thirteen of those years were as a hospice nurse, so end of life care and grief counseling has been a big part of my life. I incorporate my medical background in the therapy process.
I want to hear your story and look forward to working with you!
Orientation & Focus
Modalities
Languages Spoken
Specialties
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex Addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Conditions Treated
- Abandonment
- Adoption & Foster Care
- Aging & Senior Issues
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Attachment Issues
- Bipolar Disorder
- Blended Families
- Body Image
- Career Issues
- Caregiver Stress
- Codependency
- Communication Problems
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Divorce & Separation
- Domestic Violence
- Emptiness
- Family Conflict
- Family of Origin Issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief & Loss
- Guilt & Shame
- Hospice & End of Life
- Infidelity
- Isolation & Loneliness
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Midlife Crisis
- Money & Financial Issues
- Panic Attacks
- Parenting
- Relationship Issues
- Self Esteem
- Sex Addiction
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Health
- Sexuality & Sexual Identity
- Sleep & Insomnia
- Social Anxiety
- Stress
- Trauma & PTSD
- Women's Issues
- Workplace Issues
Treatment Options
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- EMDR
- Emotionally Focused Therapy
- Gottman Couples Therapy
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Trauma Focused
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