I specialize in couple therapy. My focus is on helping couples and adult individuals with communication, connection, vulnerability, and intimacy in their relationships. We experience the most fulfillment in life through satisfying relationships.

I orientate from a collaborative approach, which is experiential and process based. With curiosity and compassion, I am interested in helping clients discover the underlying patterns around what they do and how they do it. This happens through dialogue in the here-and-now, which helps clients raise awareness of their habits and patterns that can cause disconnection and unsatisfying relationships. I hope to bring awareness and greater capacity for choice by creating space for clients to overcome difficulties and access who they truly are.

My background, training and therapeutic approach comes from Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy and Gestalt therapy. My education was in existential-phenomenological psychology. 

Inquire about my weekly process groups for a special and unique growth, awareness, and healing opportunity.

Please inquire about couples intensives for a deep dive into restoring your relationship.

Professional License:

Washington State Licensed Mental Health Counselor # LH 61079941

Education:

MA, Seattle University, Existential Psychology and Phenomenology
BA, University of Washington, Psychology

Trainings:

CBT
Gottman Level 1-2
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Motivational Interviewing
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples Levels 1-2
Gestalt Therapy
Certificate Course in Emotionally Focused Therapy with Sue Jonhson: Attachment-Based Interventions for Couples in Crisis, 12 CE
Emotionally Focused Therapy Externship, 28 CE
Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy Core Skills – currently training
Advanced Focusing-Oriented Therapy and Complex Trauma – 2 year program with Seattle Focusing Institute, 120 CE
Mindfulness, Seattle University
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
“A Couple of Individuals”,  Individual and Couples Therapy Training from a Gestalt Therapy perspective. Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles, 48 CE each year, annually 2017 – current