Prior to working in private practice, I interned at a Children’s Advocacy Center where I worked with children and families who had experienced abuse. After graduating, I worked under a grant for at-risk youth and their families. Although I now work primarily with adults, working with children and adolescents taught me to be direct, authentic, patient, and flexible in my approach.
My therapeutic style could be described primarily as experiential-dynamic or short-term dynamic. This means I am aiming to help clients change in deep and lasting ways in a relatively short time frame (compared, for example, to psychoanalysis) by using a more active approach (where appropriate) to exploring problems and feelings, including their roots in the past if applicable. I have completed an IEDTA-certified core training program in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP). Other models I’ve received training in include Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (including TF-CBT), Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI), Child-Centered Play Therapy, and Child-Parent Relationship Therapy.
Types of problems I have worked with include:
-Trauma/PTSD
-Depression
-Anxiety and OCD
-Grief and loss
-Stress-related physical symptoms, such as headaches
-Family conflict and parenting issues
-Low confidence and low self-esteem
-Difficulties in romantic and other relationships
-Career search and decision making
Populations I have worked with include:
-Adult and child survivors of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse
-People with chronic pain and chronic illness
-Gifted and talented and highly sensitive adults
-Parents, grandparents, and other caregivers of children
-Hispanic and Latinx individuals and families
-College and graduate students
-LGBTQ+ adolescents and adults
I am licensed by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors.
