I am an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, a Certified Grief Support Specialist, a mother and a grandmother. I offer a safe space for individuals, couples, families and adolescents (via telehealth and in person) to heal and to grow, and I bring a personal understanding of complicated grief from trauma, which has deepened my capacity to help those grieving and experiencing PTSD from many different kinds of losses.

 I am warm, accepting, patient, intuitive, curious and heart-centered, and I am trained not just in one approach but in many different therapeutic modalities, including psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, Jungian, depth, mindfulness, parts work, somatic therapy and EMDR. I have experienced many of these therapies myself and that personal understanding benefits my work helping clients with a variety of issues, from anxiety, grief, PTSD and depression to relationships, parenting, aging, illness, disabilities, women’s issues, disordered eating, career challenges and life transitions.

I earned a Masters in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California. I also hold an MA in German Literature from Indiana University, and a BA and teaching credentials from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  I have several decades of experience as a publisher of trade and educational books, online courses and conferences for creative people in the Creative Arts, Photography and Technology fields.

My decades of experience teaching, leading, coaching and mentoring staff in a collaborative, heart-centered way has greatly informed my creative perspective in working with clients. I draw from the arts, music, literature, energy, humanistic, existential, feminist and spiritual psychology, and I have worked with artists, writers, teachers, musicians, first responders, mental health professionals, executives, retirees, parents, grandparents, adolescents, couples and families seeking support.

 I work with all cultural identities and always strive to practice with cultural humility,  deep compassion and a core belief in the mind and body’s ability to heal itself once we are free of defining ourselves by our past memories, cultural complexes and unconscious beliefs.