About Me

I am a skills-based therapist who specializes in complex cases and individuals with big emotions. Trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), I focus on helping clients build concrete, practical tools to navigate emotional intensity, relationship challenges, and overwhelming life experiences. My approach is structured, compassionate, and grounded in evidence-based techniques that support real change. I work with people who may feel stuck, reactive, or emotionally dysregulated, and together we develop skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and effective communication. This work goes beyond insight—we focus on building the skills necessary for lasting growth and stability.

Helping clients examine all the relationships in their lives—whether with the self, others or even vices—I embrace a solution-focused, client-centered perspective to help facilitate the process of change.

Specialties:

  • Relationship stress

  • Phase of life Issues and transitional periods

  • Substance use and harm reduction 

  • Eating disorders and body image 

  • Psychedelic therapy and integration 

  • Grief and bereavement 

  • Couples and groups

Education and Training 


University of Oregon: Bachelors of Science in Psychology 

Lewis and Clark Graduate School: Masters of Science in Counseling and Addiction Studies 

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Marsha Linehan Model 

  • Clinical Supervision Certification: Lewis and Clark

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Russ Harris 

  • Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy: Susan McMillian 

  • Psilocybin Associated Facilitator Training: Subtle Winds 

  • Lewis and Clark- Treatment of Eating Disorders

  • Esalen Insitute - How to have a Vital Life

  • Invitation to Change Model: Vital Space 

  • Treatment of Eating Disorders: Lewis and Clark 

  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy

  • CBTi - Colleen E Carney

Licenses:

  • Licensed Professional Counselor C3914

  • Licensed Mental Health Counselor LH61210932

  • Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor 23-03-10659

  • Substance Use Disorder Professional CP61428077

     

“Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.”

— Brene Brown