According to a research study if you don’t trust your therapist you have lost 70% of your ability to reach your therapy goals. Finding a therapist can be stressful and confusing. While in school, I had a professor who drew a circle on the board and stated the circle was a pie graph of everything a therapist would need to help clients reach their therapy goals. He asked the class to name everything we thought might be part of the graph. The class named things like years in the business, letters behind our name, articles we’d read, articles we’d written, conferences we have attended and so on. When we exhausted the list there was still 70% of the pie graph left. The professor wrote in the 70% left the word TRUST. I love what I do and I love creating an environment where clients feel safe and can trust the work that we do together.

Although I know trust is the most important element for successful therapy, it’s important a therapist have experience and skills to work in concert with trust. 

I have been fully licensed for over 10 years, licensed in Florida in 2011 and then additionally licensed in Georgia since 2015. Over the 10 years I have worked with diagnosis including depression, anxiety, OCD, grief, adjustment disorders, addictions, Bipolar and more. I am a certified sex therapist which means I have special training in affair repair therapy, sex addiction, sexual identity, gender identity and sexual issues related to medical issues. I have worked with the LBGTQ+ community for 10 years. I have additional training and experience in addictions recovery. I have created & run groups including Women recovering from sexual trauma & a relationship group, ‘Is it love of my next big break up’ designed to help men & women understand relationships and understand themselves in relationship. I engage clients in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral therapy, Gestalt Therapy and Experiential Therapy. I have worked in both private practice and community behavioral health.