I view therapy as a corrective relational experience: establishing trust, risking vulnerability, honoring your story, and healing in connection.
I graduated from Campbellsville University (in my hometown of Louisville, KY) with my Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy following my graduation from Samford University (Birmingham, AL) with my Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies and Religion. In my graduate experience, I worked extensively with college students around issues of identity; depression and anxiety; mood disorders; anger management; life transitions; family, friend, and romantic relationships; self-harm; and core beliefs. I also worked in an in-patient eating disorder facility with clients suffering from acute forms of anorexia nervosa, bulimia, ARFID, and body dysmorphia.
I’m a Licensed Professional Counselor Associate, working with women towards wholeheartedness and a life of freedom. I desire to collaborate with my clients from a place of genuine connection with each other and the Holy Spirit as we build trust, identify and rebuild healthy core beliefs, process with self-compassion and trauma-informed resources, and integrate each of your internal parts.
I practice Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), which proposes that we each are composed of many unique inner parts of self. As the Trinity is three in one and we are made in His image, so we too are one while also containing multiple parts- body, soul, and spirit. I love helping my clients identify their wounded and protective parts of self and compassionately unburden those parts stuck in unhealthy roles.
I also offer Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for the reprocessing and healing of traumatic memories, phobias, chronic pain/illness, and anxiety-related disorders. Trained by Susan Reed, LCSW-S.
I believe that the therapeutic relationship is the vehicle for healing and transformation! I don’t offer traditional “talk-therapy,” but enjoy providing corrective experiences where we talk to what’s occurring in your internal world, not about it. Therapy is a safe “laboratory” to practice new patterns that transcend the therapy room.
My Background:
I graduated from Samford University with my Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies and Religion. I obtained my Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Campbellsville University. I possess clinical experience in a residential eating disorder facility with in-patient clients of all ages, a university setting with undergraduate and graduate students through a variety of topics, and private practice working with women of all ages and stages of life.
My expertise is in identity formation and self-worth; core beliefs and attachment; body image and disordered eating; emotional/mood regulation; life transitions; church wounding/spiritual burnout; familial, friend, and romantic relationships; chronic pain/illness/disabilities; and self-harm.
License #90594. Supervised by Cassie Reid, Ph.D., LPC-Supervisor
Member of the American Association of Christian Counselors
What to Expect:
Once you have scheduled a session, you will receive an emailed link to a client portal containing intake paperwork covering policies and procedures, as well as assessments for you to complete. This paperwork is to be filled and submitted at least 24 hours prior to the first session.
In our first meeting, I will spend time getting to know you and your story, and understand your goals for therapy. We will begin the journey of identifying your unique internal parts and unwinding unhelpful beliefs, creating new beliefs, and learning how to walk in your true identity as we partner with hope. I utilize a holistic framework that incorporates body, soul, and spirit. I also practice from an attachment perspective, believing that our relational experiences shape and form us, and that secure relationships are essential to our well-being.
Therapy is not a “one-size-fits all” approach, and I enjoy collaborating with clients to help identify roots of their pain points and redemptive ways to move forward. Therapy can occasionally feel worse before it feels better as we uncover these roots and heal them in curiosity and relationship. Therapy is an investment in yourself- you are worth the time and effort.