"I believe there is hope for change in every situation"
LMFT-Associate | Supervised by Dr. Tim Parker
M.A., Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling | University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
Excellence in Graduate Studies Award
Additional Trainings | Gottman Method Couples Therapy Levels 1 & 2
Clinical Settings
Community Life Counseling Clinic • Baylor Scott & White McLane Children’s Specialty Clinic • Zion Lutheran School • Seeds of Hope Clinical Services
You’ve already been to therapy. Maybe you’ve read the books, tried the techniques, even had moments where things seemed to click—but somehow, you’re still stuck in the same patterns. You’re not broken, and you’re not a lost cause. You’re just dealing with a problem that needs to be navigated differently.
Most therapy offers you tools and insights that work beautifully—for other people’s problems. But your situation is more complex, more layered, or simply different than what the standard approaches are designed for. When first-line treatments don’t work, it’s not because you’re “treatment-resistant.” It’s because the problem hasn’t been understood deeply enough yet. There is a principle in medicine that sometimes gets forgotten in mental health: effective treatment depends on accurate diagnosis.
Many clients are so eager for change in their life that they start making changes before understanding what the problem is. Real change happens when we stop throwing generic solutions at your specific problem and start mapping the actual system that’s keeping your stuck in your symptoms. We’ll look at what you’ve already tried, why it didn’t stick, and what’s really going on underneath. Once you see your problem clearly—often literally mapped out—the path forward becomes clear for many people. Not easy, but clear.
Making a change...
Early in my career, I worked in environments where people casually wrote off certain situations and individuals as “beyond help.” That saddened me. I decided I wanted the training and responsibility to work with the cases others had given up on. So I pursued that training and experience, and what I found was this: as long as someone shows up, there’s hope for change.
I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist-Associate with a foundation in multiple therapeutic modalities—EFT, Gottman Method, Solution-Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and Structural Family Therapy. I also study how systems work more broadly—in ecology, technology, and physics. I integrate these common concepts and use that understanding to track problems in ways most therapists don’t.
My clients tell me two things consistently: that they feel confident and comfortable that they are in competent hands, and that I help them see things without them realizing they’re being challenged. I tend to push my clients by being neither gentle nor rough, just smooth. They also appreciate that sessions don’t feel like traditional talk therapy. We might map your problem on a whiteboard, use meditation techniques to identify what you’re actually feeling, or work through collaborative conversation. I give clients hope by showing them a clear path forward.
My style is meditative and considered. Clients have described my presence as professional and calm. You’ll leave with clarity—not just about what to do, but about why you’ve been stuck. I’ll help you believe that real, lasting change is possible. I work particularly well with couples navigating conflict, individuals whose relationship problems keep cycling, and anyone who’s tried therapy before and thought, “this isn’t working for me.” If you’re the kind of person who has already tried to fix their problems already, and it didn’t work, but you want to give therapy a shot, then we’ll probably work well together.
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