Approach
Warmth, informality, and collaboration are at the heart of how I practice. I welcome people from all cultural, ethnic, religious, sexual, and socioeconomic backgrounds. My approach centers on bringing your values, experiences, and cultural identity—everything that makes you who you are—into our work together.
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Creating a safe, trusting space is central to our therapeutic relationship—where you feel free to explore what matters most to you, at your own pace.
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Therapy is an opportunity to grow through the full range of life's experiences—the joys and the struggles that have shaped you. Together we'll explore and honor your deepest self, approaching your journey with curiosity and compassion as a path toward healing and transformation.
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My professional training and personal life experience—including marriage, family, parenting, and business—inform a holistic approach to healing that draws on several complementary frameworks:
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Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) is my primary framework—a healing-focused, relational therapy rooted in the belief that healing happens in connection with others. Together we explore your emotions, move through difficult experiences, and co-create a secure space where your natural capacity to heal can flourish.
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Sensorimotor Psychotherapy addresses how trauma and difficult experiences live in the body—held as pain that can affect our thoughts, emotions, and daily life. Through this body-centered approach, we gently process these stored wounds and help you heal.
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A Humanistic and Mindfulness Orientation honors your inherent worth and wisdom. Person-centered principles guide our relationship, trusting your capacity to grow and heal when conditions are right. Mindfulness and spiritual approaches are woven in as well, respecting your unique values and beliefs.
These frameworks come alive through lived experience—my own as much as yours.
"We are naturally drawn toward mutual connection with others. The therapist must understand, honor, and support those resources of the client that express this natural tendency." Pat Ogden
My Path to This Work
Becoming a therapist is rooted in a long career working closely with people. For 25 years I served as Chief Operating Officer of a Seattle-based family business, where my work centered on human resources, coaching, and building strong leadership teams—experience that, combined with a master's degree in “Organizational Systems Renewal,” gave me a deep understanding of how people grow and change.
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I went on to earn my Master's in Mental Health Counseling from Antioch University Seattle and am a licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC).
Education & Training
Clinical Degrees
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MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling | Antioch University | 2016
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MA in Organizational Systems Renewal | Seattle University | 2012
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Core Modalities
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Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) — Level 1 Immersion (2025) and Level 2 Essential Skills (2026)
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Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute — Level I: Trauma Processing (2016) and Level II: Emotional Healing & Attachment Repair (2017)
Couples & Relational Work
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The Developmental Model of Couples Therapy | Ellyn Bader, Ph.D., The Couples Institute | 2022
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Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples | Externship | 2018
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Assessing and Treating Sex Issues in Psychotherapy | Martha Kauppi, Institute for Relational Intimacy
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Integration & Specialized Approaches
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Mindfulness, Attachment & Integration | Dan Siegel
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"Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors" | Janina Fisher | 2018
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Depth & Nature-Based Work
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Animas Valley Institute — Vision Quest immersions into the wilds of nature and psyche for retrieving the unique, mysterious identity hidden in the soul-waters of each life
