About Me, and Our Work Together
I’m a Marriage and Family Therapist who believes meaningful change goes beyond simply learning new behaviors. What happens within us shapes how we experience God, understand ourselves, and relate to others. This perspective informs my approach to therapy.
My work is guided by The Inner Being Framework™, which brings together biblical truth, spiritual formation, attachment science, and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). This allows us to address not only the conflicts and emotional reactions that bring you to therapy, but also the deeper realities shaping those patterns.
For couples, EFT helps slow down recurring cycles and work toward greater emotional safety and connection. With individuals and families, this attachment-informed lens helps us understand how emotional experiences shape relationships.
My Christian faith is foundational to how I understand people and relationships, while the way faith is incorporated into therapy is guided by your preferences. For those who desire explicitly Christian counseling, our work may include Scripture, prayer, and spiritual reflection.
I recognize that faith, culture, relationships, and lived experience shape how we understand ourselves and the world around us. I offer a warm, collaborative space where we can make sense of your experiences together. I believe lasting transformation belongs to God, and my role is to bring clinical excellence, compassion, and faithful stewardship to our work while trusting Him with what only He can transform.
Becoming a Therapist
My path to becoming a therapist was shaped by a conviction that faith and clinical care do not have to compete with one another. Pursuing professional training did not mean placing less trust in God. Instead, I came to see therapy as another place where I could faithfully steward what He had entrusted to me while continuing to depend on Him.
As I studied relationships, attachment, and Emotionally Focused Therapy, I found language for something I had already begun to recognize: the way we experience God, ourselves, and others profoundly influences how we respond when we feel afraid, disconnected, rejected, or unsure. Attachment theory helped me understand the importance of secure connection, while my faith continually brought me back to God as our ultimate source of security.
Over time, these ideas became increasingly connected. Biblical truth, spiritual formation, attachment science, and EFT were not separate interests to me—they informed the way I understood the whole person. That integration eventually helped shape the work I do today and the development of The Inner Being Framework™.
Becoming a therapist has therefore been about more than learning techniques. It has been about growing in the ability to offer clinical excellence, compassionate care, and faithful stewardship while remaining humbly dependent on God for the transformation that only He can bring.
Let’s navigate emotions together
We'll slow down, listen to the message your emotion conveys, understand what is happening within, and discern how you want to respond.
Emotions can be intense, confusing, or difficult to name or express, but they often carry important information about what we are experiencing. Fear, hurt, anger, sadness, loneliness, disappointment, or longing may draw our attention to attachment needs, beliefs, expectations, wounds, or places where something within us feels threatened, disconnected, inadequate, or deeply important.
In our work together, we can notice what you are feeling, attend to what it may be signaling, and understand the meaning you are making of the experience. Rather than suppressing emotion or automatically following where it leads, we can respond with greater awareness and intention.
When faith is part of our work, we can attend to what your emotions may be signaling while remaining present with God and considering how your response can increasingly align with biblical truth.
Emotions are excellent messengers; they deserve our attention, not the final say
You may be here because of…
FAITH & YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
RECURRING CONFLICT
RELATIONSHIP STRUGGLES
BROKEN TRUST & INFIDELITY
EMOTIONAL DISCONNECTION
TENSION & DISCONNECTION WITH TEEN
STRESS, & EMOTIONAL OVERWHELM
REPEATING PATTERNS
RELATIONAL ALONENESS
You Are the Expert on Your Lived Experience
You bring your lived experience. I bring clinical excellence and The Inner Being Framework™. Together, we make sense of what is happening
You may know that something feels wrong long before you have words for it. You may recognize the argument that keeps repeating, the distance that has grown between you, or an emotional reaction that seems to take over without fully understanding what is happening underneath.
My role is not to tell you what your experience means. We slow things down together, paying attention to what you are feeling, the relational patterns you find yourself in, and the deeper realities shaping your experience.
For couples, this may mean recognizing the cycle that keeps pulling you apart and creating opportunities to respond to one another with greater openness, emotional accessibility, responsiveness, and connection. For individuals and families, it may mean noticing patterns that have become difficult to understand or change on your own.
You know your experience from the inside. I bring a framework for helping us attend to it with care, clinical excellence, and curiosity. Our work happens where those two forms of knowing meet.
Could We Be a Good Fit?
Everyone is unique, and finding the right fit is absolutely crucial—especially when it comes to the deeply personal experience of therapy.
You don’t have to already know what kind of therapist you need, what approach will work best, or what the therapy process might look like before reaching out.
Value a warm, collaborative approach
Want to understand repeating patterns—not just manage them
Want greater security and connection in your relationships
Are open to attending to emotions and what is happening within
Want therapy that honors your faith, culture, values, and lived experience
Value therapy grounded in biblical truth and clinical excellence
We may be a good fit if you…
Want the therapist to decide who is right or wrong
Are looking only for quick behavioral strategies without going beneath the pattern
Prefer a highly directive approach where the therapist tells you what decisions to make
We may not be a good fit if you…