I a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California and Texas and a board approved supervisor for both licensures. My 19 years of experience focuses on relationship-based psychotherapy and multidisciplinary service, working with children, adolescents, teens, adults, couples and families.
Before starting my private practice, I was Founding Executive Director of the Nick Finnegan Counseling Center, a non-profit counseling center in Houston, Texas. I was also the Clinical Program Manager for an Early Intervention and Prevention 0-5 Year-Old program at River Oak Center for Children in Sacramento, California. I started my counseling work at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston during my graduate work at the University of Houston where I earned a Masters of Education in Counseling Psychology.
I am passionate about providing quality, effective counseling to men and women, individual, couples and family. The number one indicator of positive outcomes in therapeutic treatment is the relationship between you and your therapist. This factor is key in my approach to helping you reach their goals. As a therapist my main goal is to create a safe, comfortable therapeutic relationship so that you feel you can be open, share your concerns and feel respected. My job is to help find your strengths and use those to help lead you to feeling better and alleviating the challenges that brought you to therapy. I will help you through tough experiences, hard decisions, and situations where you need support. What fuels my passion for being a therapist is the joy and self-confidence that I see when a person, couple or family have met their goals and feel better about their situation. When people feel they have learned skills to make change or changed behaviors that were creating obstacles in their lives it provides a sense of freedom that impacts their whole life.
My treatment specialization includes: Life Transitions, Premarital Counseling, Couples Counseling, Individual Divorce Counseling,
Blended Family Counseling, Family Counseling, Parenting Support, Grief Counseling, Preparatory Grief counseling, Work and Career issues, Stress Management
Conflict Resolution, Prepare/Enrich personalized assessments available for premarital and couples therapy, and parenting assessments.
I look forward to working with you!
Additional areas of focus: LGBT, Trauma and abuse, Intimacy-related issues, Parenting issues, Anger management, Career difficulties, Depression, Coping with life changes, Coaching, Compassion fatigue
TX LMFT 201270
TX LPC 64545