It is a great joy and honor to connect with people’s humanity and encourage the healing and strength necessary to live life in a new way.
I have been counseling for over 17 years and it is still my passion to be with people on this heartbreaking and messy journey of life. Continuing education, my own therapy and professional consultation are some of the ways I take care of myself so I can try to be the very best I can be for you.
Training Highlights
• Self Trust and Integrated Resilience (STAIR Method) Certification in progress
• Self Trust and Integrated Resilience (STAIR Method) Level 1-3, 2023-2024
• Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems, 2023
• Internal Family Systems Online Circle, 2023
• Memory Reconsolidation, Translating Neuroscience into Art, 2023
• The Neurobiology of Feeling Safe, Part 1 & 2, 2022
• Heart of Trauma and the IPNB Intensive with Bonnie Badenoch, 2021-2022
• Level 1 Coherence Therapy Training with Bruce Ecker, 2020
• Brains in Session, Tracking Neural Networks and IPNB Treatment Planning, 2019-2020
• Attachment-Focused EMDR Training with Laurel Parnell, 2019
• EMDR Certifcation, 2016
• EMDR Basic Training with Rick Levinson, 2013
Consultation
• IPNB and STAIR Consultation Groups with Juliane Taylor Shore, 2019 – Present
• EMDR-Focused Peer Consultation Group, 2017 – Present
• General Clinical Peer Consultation Group, 2010 – Present
Experience
• Private Practice in Austin, established 2010
• Board Approved Supervisor for LPC Associates, 2011 – 2016
• Counselor at Jewish Family Service in San Antonio, 2006-2010
• Honored with “Intern of the Year”, 2007 and “Going Beyond the Call of Duty” award, 2009
• Individual and Group Counselor at a California Domestic Violence Shelter, 2002-2004
Education
• Master of Science in Counseling, California State University Northridge, 2004
• Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, University of North Texas, 2002
“Sometimes it takes the most wounded wings
the most broken things
to notice how strong the breeze is,
how precious the flight.”
– Andrea Gibson