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How I Work

I work with my clients to help them uncover their own truth, answers, insights and solutions. I have a huge toolbox to assist me in assisting you. Offering you advice, telling you how to do something or simply handing you insights are not ways in which I normally work. My job and ultimate goal is to provide you with your own skill set and help you find what works best for you, so that you don't need me to continue navigating your own life. I hold each and every one of my clients with the highest respect and I take a personal interest in seeing them through transformation and growth. I experience great satisfaction in witnessing them flourish in their lives. To be welcomed along as a teammate in someone else's own journey and path is an exceptional honor that I do not take lightly.

 

What To Expect

Working with me can at times be serious, light-hearted, intense, comforting, fun, heart-wrenching, funny, relieving, painful, enlightening and everything else in between. AND working with me is always genuine, solid, respectful, loving, heart-felt, and full of substance. Some days our work together will feel really good to you and you will walk out of my office feeling on top of the world. Some days our work together will downright suck and you'll think that you want the session to end early. Most of the time our work together will fall somewhere in between.

 

 

Success in Therapy

Clients who experience the greatest amount of success with me are clients who have a healthy capacity to be self-reflective, insightful, have a willingness to look at both of their light and dark sides in an honest and inquisitive way and possess a huge desire for change in their lives. My clients must be willing to put the work in to make that happen even if it feels yucky for a bit. I work hard for and with my clients and my expectation is that my clients put in at least an equal amount of effort, otherwise I am of no value to you.

The Basics

I am a Marriage and Family Counselor specializing in individual and couples therapy based in mindfulness, and I maintain a private practice in SW Portland, Oregon.

 

I graduated from Portland State University with a Master's degree in Couples, Marriage, Family Therapy in June of 2011. I completed M.E.T.A.‘s two-year Comprehensive Training that same year. I helped pioneer the creation and opening of the M.E.T.A. Counseling Clinic, and served as a Counseling Intern at the Clinic from the fall of 2010 to the Summer of 2011.

 

In 2020 I expanded my practice to include Clinical Supervision for graduate student interns and pre-licensed therapists. If you are interested in clinical supervision services, please email me directly.

Formal Education

 

Additional Training

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