My Philosophy

 

Welcome to my website. For the past 20 years, I have been working with people to explore and move through struggles and create a life and relationships that bring meaning and more happiness. I believe at the core of all of us there is an innate goodness and wisdom. Everything you need to know to heal and live a fulfilling life is already within you. Over the years, I have learned how to bring my own intuition into my sessions. To follow my clients’ subtle unconscious messages guiding me to what to focus on to allow growth and healing to happen.

 

I also believe it is my job to help you recognize what are distorted beliefs and conditioning that were imposed on you and what is your authentic self. Focusing on your inner world, establishing a deeper relationship with yourself, building your self-esteem, releasing traumatic energy, and learning how to listen to your own intuition will organically change how you show up and navigate your outer world and relationships.

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About Me

 

This work is my passion and I truly believe it is my calling. In high school, Steve Daughtry signed my yearbook “to the prettiest counselor I know”, because I was who my friends would come to when they had a problem and wanted to feel safe talking about it. I grew up in the South with the strong message that “children should be seen and not heard”. So, I became a really good listener. I didn’t know at that time that those experiences would lead me to the path I would eventually go down for my life’s work.

 

My first career was as a Financial Analyst. I have had a knack for numbers from a very young. I was doing long multiplication and division equations before I started kindergarten. So, working with numbers was my dream job. Numbers represented security to me even though I was not conscious of that at the time. 2 + 2 will always equal 4. Numbers are very stable.

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Unfortunately, working in corporate America for over 11 years and moving up to a manager level, I found myself being asked to do tasks that weren’t in alignment with my values. For instance, having to choose which employees to layoff due to the CEO making poor decisions for the company. Then, being laid off myself 3 times in 3 years due to mergers and buy-outs. I felt pretty beat up.

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Long story short, I had an epiphany when trying to decide on a new career path and I remembered my time in high school and Steve Daughtry’s yearbook message. I have always had a deep compassion, empathy and sensitivity to other people’s  suffering and wanted my work to make a meaningful difference for others. It was then, I decided to become a Psychotherapist. I chose to get my Master’s degree at Texas Women’s University (TWU) because their Psychology program emphasized Family Systems Psychology. I knew that I wanted to work with relationships and I liked that TWU was a feminist university. During my time at TWU, I also pursued a Minor in trauma and violence. My thesis was titled “Revictimized Women and Male Perpetrator Relationships”.

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After graduating, I worked for a non-profit agency in a First Offender Program where adolescents who were arrested for the first time were given the option to do 6 weeks of therapy with their family and have their record wiped clean. This is when I discovered how significant our childhood experiences shape our lives and how wounds get carried down generationally. I have worked with teens and families ever since. I also volunteered as a Youth Advisor for regional and national teen camps for 4 years in CO and CA. I received the 2008 Youth Champion Award for years of dedicated service working with teens.