Counseling Services
Choosing to begin therapy is a deeply personal decision. I specialize in supporting active duty military, veterans, first responders, their spouses, and athletes — individuals who often carry silent burdens while showing up for others.
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Military members and veterans often seek therapy to address issues such as PTSD, anxiety, depression, and trauma related to their service. They may also seek help for difficulties with reintegration into civilian life, relationship problems, and struggles with identity and purpose. This can also affect their spouses, often leading to emotional strain, relationship challenges, and feelings of isolation. Therapy provides a space to process these experiences, manage symptoms, and build coping strategies for a healthier, more balanced life.
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First responders often seek therapy to address personal issues directly linked to the chronic stress and trauma from their jobs. This can also affect their spouses, who may feel burdened, abandoned, overwhelmed, and isolated. I offer a safe, nonjudgmental space for both first responders and their spouses to explore these challenges and identify barriers to moving forward.
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Struggling with the “yips,” fear after injury, or a loss of confidence in your sport? I offer trauma-informed counseling — including Brainspotting — to help athletes overcome performance anxiety, recover mentally from setbacks, and reconnect with their love of the game.
Whether you’re a competitive athlete, weekend warrior, or just trying to get back to yourself after an injury or high-pressure experience, support is available.
Evidence-Based Therapies
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Brainspotting is a powerful treatment method that works by identifying, processing, and releasing core neuro-physiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation, and a variety of other challenging symptoms. It’s different from other therapy models in that it puts the client in control and the therapist acts in a supportive, collaborative role.
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EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a therapeutic approach designed to help individuals process and integrate distressing memories and traumatic experiences. It involves a structured eight-phase approach where the therapist uses bilateral stimulation, often through guided eye movements, to help the client reprocess these memories. The goal is to reduce the emotional charge associated with traumatic events, allowing individuals to gain a more adaptive perspective and alleviate symptoms related to PTSD, anxiety, and other trauma-related conditions.
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Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) is a compassionate, non-pathologizing approach that understands each person as having an inner system made up of “parts.” These parts hold different emotions, beliefs, and protective roles—often developed in response to earlier life experiences. Rather than trying to eliminate or suppress these parts, IFS helps clients build a supportive relationship with them, guided by the calm, curious, and grounded core Self.
In my work, I integrate IFS with other trauma-informed modalities, including Brainspotting, to deepen the healing process. Brainspotting allows the nervous system to access and process stored emotional material, while IFS provides a clear and respectful framework for engaging with the parts that arise during that process. Together, these approaches help clients connect with protective parts, soothe overwhelmed or younger parts, and release patterns that no longer serve them.
By combining IFS and Brainspotting, clients can experience both bottom-up (body-based) and top-down (parts-based) healing—creating lasting change that feels aligned, integrated, and self-led.
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DBT, or Dialetical Behavior Therapy, is a type of cognitive therapy that focus on increasing your ability to stay in the present moment, improving your effectiveness in managing stress, building healthy relationships through improved communication and increasing positive emotional experiences.
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CBT, or Cognitive Behavior Therapy, is a goal-oriented process which teaches you to identify negative thinking patterns. Thoughts and feelings play a fundamental role in your behavior, CBT uses strategies to promote and sustain your ability for objective, realistic thinking, which improves your happiness in life.
**Although CBT and DBT are incredibly beneficial, I mainly utilize Brainspotting and EMDR modalities with IFS informed parts work in my work with most individuals. If during our work together we find that there is a need for more focused skill work as part of a clients identified goals, I will then implement CBT and/or DBT.