I have been in the counseling field over 20 years, with over 15 of those years in the trauma field. My approach to therapy is to support clients in nurturing their resilience and strengthening their resources to allow them to flourish. I am a certified EMDR therapist. Beyond just a reduction in symptoms, this approach relies on the brain to find the answers, and allows clients to grow to a place of positive outcomes and well-being. EMDR gives clients a sense of hope, worthiness, and connection as they bridge to their internal strengths.

Through resilience-informed therapy, inner perceptions and feelings shift, supporting individuals to move from a place of surviving to thriving. EMDR facilitates a change in overwhelming thoughts and chronic worries, opening the door to present-moment awareness with a more adaptive perspective. I treat individuals experiencing challenges related to life adjustments, dissatisfying relationship patterns, anxiety, depression, traumatic grief and loss, recent traumatic events, childhood trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and vicarious trauma.

I also rely on a polyvagal-informed approach to treatment, which provides access to tools to regulate the autonomic nervous system. There is a neural platform beneath every experience we have and being able to understand how the nervous system responds to stress arousal gives access to a greater sense of agency in one’s life. This empowering approach opens the door to rewiring the brain for resilience with a foundation rooted in perspective, connection, and contentment. Neuropsychologist Rick Hanson, Ph.D. calls this a “fundamental mood of enoughness” and polyvagal expert Deb Dana, LCSW calls it “the place where possibility lives.” I collaborate with clients to enhance their inner strengths, internalize new perspectives, heal trauma, and begin engaging with their lives from a place of coherence and balance.