M.A., LPC Supervisor
Dallas, Texas Therapist Specializing in Counseling Adults Going Through Life Transitions, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, Shame, Mid-Life Crisis. Online therapy available.
I deeply value and believe in your power to author your story in a way that creates a life distinctly meaningful and satisfying to you, and to use the previous chapters of your life to inform how you write the next ones.
As a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor, I work to create a space that fosters a sense of security, curiosity, and courage to 1) help you identify the values and components you most desire to see manifested in your daily life, 2) take ownership of the current obstacles that impede that way of life, and 3) collaboratively develop tactics to more effectively bring your vision for yourself to reality.
My services:
- Psychotherapy for adult individuals nineteen years of age and beyond
Whether you’re seeking to:
- More constructively interact with symptoms of anxiety & depression
- Establish, cultivate and preserve recovery from substance use & addiction
- Acclimate to life transitions (career changes, divorce, parenthood, relocation, etc.)
- Address conflicts between faith/spirituality & life experience
- Identify and implement better boundaries in relationships
- Find resolution from feelings of shame and guilt
- Navigate authentically and effectively through mid-life crises
My approach:
I predominantly practice from an existential orientation, working with clients to find meaning and purpose in their suffering while also encouraging them to reclaim and utilize their responsibility and agency to influence their lives in the ways they see fit.
A significant portion of my approach could be more simply described through the classic “Serenity Prayer,” which I believe shares a wisdom to those both in and outside of the addiction recovery community. When we are able to accept the things we cannot change, have courage to change the things that we can, and cultivate the wisdom to know the difference, we are significantly better positioned to nurture a life of richness and meaning.
I also employ methods related to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, CBT, and REBT when appropriate.
Additional information:
- If my office doesn’t clue you in immediately, I will most likely let it slip out early on that I’m a native to Texas’s boot-shaped neighbor to the East. We Louisianians might not often make it to the top of many “good lists,” but we know how to throw a great party and can find any excuse to do so.
- In my free time, I enjoy running, traveling with my family, listening to and playing music, and serving as a human jungle gym to the two spider monkeys posing as my sons. More recently, I’ve greatly enjoyed attending the University of YouTube to learn any and every relevant new skill (most often in an urgent effort to simply keep my house standing upright).
- Prior to working in private practice, I served as a counselor in a client advocate role with a local outpatient treatment group. The group’s primary aim was to help those wrestling with addiction and moderate psychiatric issues to translate the insights they gained in the counseling office into their daily lifestyles.
- As is true of myself, my employment history can’t be put into a box. Before becoming a counselor, I had experience working as a water ski instructor, technical support operator, camp program director, computer salesman, guest services coordinator at a retreat center, and the list goes on.
My rate is $175 for 50 minute session; $300 for 80 minute session. Texas Licensed Professional Counselor (#68492). Click here to request an appointment.
A quote that resonates with me:
Listening is rare. There are certain people we meet to whom we feel we can talk because they have such a depth capacity for hearing; not hearing words only but hearing us as a person. We shall never truly know ourselves unless we find people who can listen, who can enable us to emerge, to come out of ourselves, to discover who we are. We cannot discover ourselves by ourselves. -- Margaret Madeline