Over the past 20 years, I have maintained my approach to systemic therapy. I continue to delve deeply into the relational and emotional world of connection and healing. I ensure healing is relationally ethical, grounded in science and encompasses our full systems of within and the complex dynamics generated between ourselves and those we are connecting. And to ensure a meaningful and mutually beneficial healing connection.
Since 2007, I have combined my life experiences in sports coaching, camps, outdoor intervention programs, psychology and marriage and family therapy to establish my private practice working with couples and families around the country to heal relationships.
Raised in Pennsylvania, I studied psychology and management at Gettysburg College. After traveling overseas I chose to complete my graduate degree in New Zealand. I studied the psychological outcomes of outdoor interventions for my Masters at University of Otago, Dunedin. What I discovered is the relationships between the adolescents and the guides had the greatest impact in creating positive change and improving their self-esteem. I also learned how gender differs when it comes to outcomes.
Upon completion of my Masters, I returned to Pennsylvania to be an assistant coach for the men's volleyball team at Juniata College while also facilitating experiential programming & managing facilities for environmental centers.
I moved west to pursue a career in wilderness therapy after a NOLS course in Arizona. There, I was a field guide at Aspen Achievement Academy and went on to be assistant director of family services where I worked with parents during the reunion process facilitating multi family groups and developed and implemented family assessments.
Completing my Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) degree at Denver Family Institute informs a large part of how I help families and couples. I worked under Jim Thomas, LMFT to complete my coursework while simultaneously working for a company to develop aftercare and transition programs throughout Colorado and nationally.
Since 2015, I have focused my professional development in attachment-based therapy. Completing extensive trainings in Emotionally Focused Therapy, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Attachment-Based Family Therapy and Brainspotting; access to the deep internal experiences of relationships has been the greatest craft honored to me. In 2017, I began a journey of self-exploration of the neuroscience of moral development enhancing my ethical approach to serving my clients.
Personally, I love living in a small rural communities with all of the natural awe offered to my senses. Living among lakes, rivers, mountains, and the culture of the west.
