My areas of expertise are trauma, anxiety, and perfectionism.

I help high-achieving adults who are exhausted by chronic guilt, people-pleasing, and self-doubt learn to trust themselves again so they can create healthier relationships and finally feel at home in themselves.

While most of my work is with adults, I will see clients ages 14 and up. Although I don’t have a cap, the eldest clients I’ve seen are in their 80s.

I have a lot of experience working with the following groups in Houston:

• Young adults

• Moms

• Doctors and Healthcare Professionals

• Researchers

• College Students

• Medical Students

• Caregivers

• Pregnancy Loss/Difficulty

• Highly Sensitive People (HSPs)

One aspect of being an ethical therapist is called practicing “within your scope.” My scope includes working with trauma and PTSD, anxiety, perfectionism, and more!

When I don’t have the expertise to provide ethical therapy, I refer to other providers to make sure you receive the best possible care. Here is a non-exhaustive list of some of the types of struggles and situations that may lead me to refer out:

• Substance Use & Addiction

• Court-Mandated Therapy

• Mania & Hypomania

• Audio & Visual Hallucinations

• Eating Disorders

• Body Dysmorphia

• Children under 14

• Dissociative Identity Disorder

• Neurocognitive Disorder & Dementia

• Active Suicidality

• Active Crisis

• Couples

• Hoarding

• Testing & Evaluation

• Emotional Support Animal (ESA) Designation Requests

• Pre-Operative Therapy for Gender-Affirming Care or other Major Surgery
  (I fully support my clients’ right to gender-affirming healthcare! However I have had no training in this area and it is therefore out of my scope to offer services that may influence approval or denial of their access to necessary care.)

I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker Supervisor in the state of Texas (LCSW-S #69369).

Experience:

Starting in graduate school, I’ve been practicing therapy with individuals and groups since 2018. I’ve worked in settings including: a behavioral health hospital, a group private practice, a community non-profit, and a major academic hospital system.

Prior to opening my private practice, I spent five years working for Baylor College of Medicine, serving the last three years as Therapy Team Lead, overseeing a large team of resident and intern therapists’ caseloads and managing therapy operations.

Training:

I am trained in several therapy modalities with advanced training in anxiety and trauma treatment.

• Somatic Therapy

  • 22-hour training to become Certified Somatic Therapist under Dr. Abi Blakeslee

  • 25-hour training in attachment-informed somatic therapy

• Parts work, Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed

  • 14-hour training under Daphne Fatter, PhD

• Brainspotting

  • 14-hour training in Brainspotting under David Grand

• Cognitive Processing Therapy

  • Completed Training and 6 months Consultation through Strong Star

• Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

  • Completed Training, in Consultation through MUSC, Trauma Education Program

• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

  • 40-hour DBT Training under Houston DBT Center

• Certified in the Unified Protocol of CBT

Rather than following one strict modality, I integrate approaches fluidly based on what supports each client best.

I dive deep into this here.

Briefly, I believe the therapy relationship comes first so I show up as a human being. I have a relational, humanistic approach and really value deep work, but also know it’s important to have skills to address the here-and-now.

I use a strong attachment lens and will arrive empathetically and attuned to your needs and energy at each session. I also am direct and if I think you or we are avoiding something important, I will always (gently) say so.

Oh, we’ll also laugh together. Humor is so important in getting through the hard things.

My approach blends several different therapies depending on client need, but most often I am pulling from somatic therapy and brainspotting.