Areas of Expertise
Anxiety
Anxiety doesn't always look like panic. For many of the women I work with, it looks like overthinking, over-preparing, and lying awake at 3am running through every possible scenario. It looks like a racing heart before a difficult conversation, a knot in your stomach that never quite goes away, or the exhausting effort of trying to control outcomes you can't control.
Anxiety is your brain's warning system — and it's trying to protect you. The problem is that it often gets it wrong, firing when there's no real threat and keeping you stuck in thought loops that feel urgent but lead nowhere.
The good news is that anxiety is highly treatable. Through CBT, mindfulness, and learning to understand your mind-body connection, you can literally rewire your brain to respond differently. You don't have to live at the mercy of your anxiety.
Trauma
Trauma isn't just what happened to you. It's what happened inside you as a result — the way your brain got stuck trying to process an experience it couldn't fully make sense of at the time.
You might not even think of what you've been through as trauma. Many women I work with don't. They just know that certain situations trigger reactions that feel disproportionate, that they can't seem to let go of things that happened years ago, or that they feel perpetually on edge without knowing why.
Trauma can stem from a single event — a loss, an accident, an assault — or from years of experiences that slowly eroded your sense of safety and self. Whatever its origin, it doesn't have to define the rest of your life.
With EMDR, IFS, CBT, and mindfulness, we work to help your brain finally process what got stuck — so you can move forward without the weight of the past following you everywhere.
Grief
Grief is not a problem to be solved. It's a process to be witnessed.
There is no right or wrong way to grieve — no timeline, no stages you have to hit in order, no point at which you should be "over it." Grief is as individual as the person experiencing it and as unique as the relationship that was lost.
What grief needs more than anything is a witness — someone to sit in the pain with you without trying to fix it, rush it, or minimize it. Someone who understands that you can't heal what you don't feel.
I bring both clinical training and personal experience to grief work. Having lost my husband to cancer after 29 years of marriage, I understand the particular weight of grief that doesn't announce itself on a schedule — the kind that shows up at holidays, anniversaries, and ordinary Tuesday mornings when something small reminds you of everything you've lost.
I use David Kessler's model for grief — one of the most compassionate and respected frameworks for understanding loss — to help you process, integrate, and eventually find meaning without ever being asked to forget.
Childhood Attachment Wounds
Some of the most painful patterns we carry as adults were formed before we had any say in the matter.
When our emotional needs weren't consistently met in childhood — not necessarily through abuse or neglect, but simply through the imperfect ways humans raise children — we develop ways of relating to ourselves and others that made sense then but cause pain now. These are attachment wounds, and they show up in your adult life as anxiety in relationships, people-pleasing, difficulty trusting, self-criticism, and the feeling that no matter what you do, you're never quite enough.
The brain stores these early experiences like recordings and when something in the present reminds you of the original wound, the recording plays. You react not to what's happening now but to what happened then. And you wonder why you keep ending up in the same situations no matter how hard you try to change.
This is some of the deepest and most meaningful work I do. Using parts work, including Internal Family Systems and DNMS, a gentle attachment-focused approach specifically designed for childhood wounds, we work to heal the parts of you that are still waiting for needs that were never met.
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FAQs
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It's a free 20-minute conversation, a chance for us to get to know each other, for you to ask questions, and for both of us to get a sense of whether we're a good fit. There's no pressure and no commitment. If I feel like I'm not the right therapist for you, I'll do my best to point you toward someone who is.
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If you need to cancel or reschedule, please do so at least 24 hours in advance, otherwise you will be charged the full session rate. I hold your appointment time specifically for you. I do allow one grace cancellation per calendar year inside the 24-hour window at no charge.
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I'm a private pay practice. If your insurance plan includes out of network benefits, I can provide a superbill for you to submit directly to your insurance company for potential reimbursement. I also accept HSA cards.
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Telehealth is online therapy conducted via secure video. I use a HIPAA compliant client portal and you'll receive a link by email and join with one click. There's nothing to download, nothing is recorded, and you can connect from anywhere in Texas.
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