Well hello! I’m excited to be of use on this platform. I am licensed in Utah with 3 years of professional work experience. I have experience in helping clients with stress and anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, & eating disorders.
I approach therapy by integrating the mind and body. This all started with my own struggle to find balance. Through my teens and young adulthood I became adept at ignoring my body at the peril of my mental/emotional/spiritual well-being. Talk therapy had its place, I needed strategies, and often someone to challenge my distorted thinking. However, real change happened while I was in the yoga studio breathing through navasana, on a long walk outside, or improvising in the dance studio. I was a high school dance and yoga teacher at the time. Interestingly, I was witnessing my students’ own healing processes in my classes: the “problematic” student becoming a meditation mentor, students expressing feelings around world events through dance, the studio becoming a place of emotional safety and sometimes grieving- sometimes through words, oftentimes through quiet or music.
I decided to pursue a master’s in mental health therapy with an emphasis in dance/movement therapy. One internship working at an expressive arts residential facility for teens in foster care and another internship at a substance abuse rehab center. I graduated and took my first job at primary children’s hospital, where I worked with teens impacted by cancer or neurotrauma in finding joy and embodiment again. I found my niche working at Center for Change, an eating disorder recovery center. I knew firsthand that embodiment was they key to recovery, and it was an honor accompanying others in finding this.
I bring my whole self to my practice- the stumbles, the learning, the experiences, the teacher, the artist, the clinician, and the human. I look forward to meeting you.
Additional areas of focus: Body image, Guilt and shame, Mood disorders , Self-love, Women's issues
UT LCMHC 12113195-6004