Meet therapist and owner of Rooted to Rise

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Major life changes, traumatic events, and shift causes us to feel a disconnect between our mind and body. I work to bridge the gap between our inner and outer worlds to help facilitate one's own sense of peace, clarity, and growth. I am a Marriage Family Therapist that believes that all we do is relational, and every situation or circumstance helps to shape who we are and who we are becoming.

 I work from a place of empowerment and compassion; hoping to foster and facilitate a self-discovering process, while co-creating a space to rediscover all the light and knowing one already holds within. Therapy is most effective with an established connection where you feel seen and understood.

 I use a strength-based approach where my clients learn their inner most gifts that already exist. Stress, trauma, relationships, and life sometimes leave us forgetting who we really are. Together we use self-discovery to re-write the narrative and remember.

As a professionally trained and experienced therapist, I have the tools and understanding to help you to create the life you imagine and get a renewed sense of self.  

I was a special education teacher for 16 years, in a local school district, specializing in students with social-emotional deficits and high function autism.  This experience is integrated into almost all the work I do.  Working with this population and family members is a niche of mine.

MFT's are the specific mental health care provider that are trained to do couples counseling.  I believe in strengthening the connection and allowing each partner to view life situations through their partner's lens.  See the service page for more information

I have taken trainings through CHOP's gender clinic specific to working with transgender clients and the LGBTQI+ population.  Together we can explore self-identity in multiple areas to get a greater sense of self.

Life experience has also led me to work with specific populations. I had a traumatic birth experience and since then have worked with many women who have also shared trauma during birth.  We work through the grief cycle to make meaning of the experience.  I am trained in trauma-focus internal family systems and my own personal experience with trauma has helped to relate to clients in a similar situation.   

Other areas of experience include: Veterans, people in recovery, seniors, adolescents, and young children using a play-based approach.