I am Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri, Nationally Registered Play Therapist (RPT), and Missouri Certified School Counselor (CSC) in private practice. Additionally, I am a retired classroom teacher and I hold a Career Continuous Professional Certification in Elementary Education in the state of Missouri. I am trained in EMDR, couples therapies, and Child Centered Play Therapy. I have experience in helping clients of all ages struggling within their most important relationships as well as a variety of social-emotional difficulties using humanistic, goal oriented and strengths-based theoretical approaches. I believe that you are the expert of your story and that you have many strengths that will assist you in overcoming things that challenge you. Taking the first step to sign up for therapy can take courage and I feel honored to be trusted by you as you begin your process!
Additional areas of focus: Family conflicts, Trauma and abuse, Grief, Intimacy-related issues, Sleeping disorders, Career difficulties, Coping with life changes, Coaching, Compassion fatigue, Attachment issues, Avoidant personality, BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture, Blended family issues, Codependency, Commitment issues, Communication problems, Control issues, Dependent personality, Divorce and separation, Emptiness, Family of origin issues, Family problems, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Hoarding, Infidelity, Isolation / loneliness, Life purpose, Veteran and Armed Forces Issues, Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Phobias, Postpartum depression, Pregnancy and childbirth, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Self-love, Sex addiction, Social anxiety and phobia, Somatization, Young adult issues
MO LPC 2018036494