Here are some styles, approaches, and philosophies that come with me into the therapy room.

Skills-Based Therapy

When life is hard, we need hands-on coping skills in the moment to help us through. I’ll teach you skills from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) so you never feel empty-handed when life gets stormy.

Practice-Based Therapy

We won’t just talk about getting better, we will practice in real-time. Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy (ERP) allows us to practice making contact with discomfort and forming a new and more skillful relationship with your internal experience so you don’t have to feel held back from all that life has to offer.

Body-Based Therapy

Your mind and your body are not two separate things, fighting against each other. Your body talks to your mind through your nervous system. I’ll guide you through body movements and skills to have a regulated nervous system and help you learn to feel at home in your body using Polyvagal Theory.

Anti-Diet Philosophy

Diets don’t work, and your body was never a problem to be solved or fixed. Therapy with me means prioritizing healing your relationship with your body over fixing your body. All bodies are good bodies and worthy of trust and compassionate care.

I have a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Texas A&M University - College Station (2012), and a Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Texas A&M University - Central Texas (2018). I previously worked at an eating disorder treatment hospital with clients and their families seeking inpatient and outpatient care for their eating disorder. I've worked in other care settings as well assisting high school students navigating life transitions, and community mental health. In my past work life, I worked as a litigation paralegal at a law firm for about five years before returning to school to pursue my counseling career. I’ve been in private practice serving clients since 2020.

I work with guys and gals age 16+ who:

• Feel like their relationship with food, exercise, or their body has become exhausting or all-consuming.

• Struggle with binge eating, restricting, purging, emotional eating, or other disordered eating behaviors—even if they're not sure they have an eating disorder.

• Spend a lot of time worrying about their weight, appearance, body image, or what they've eaten.

• Feel trapped in the cycle of dieting, overeating, guilt, and starting over again.

• Use compulsive exercise to manage anxiety, guilt, or how they feel about their body.

• Have OCD or intrusive thoughts that won't leave them alone, or feel like they have to perform certain rituals, checking, reassurance-seeking, or mental compulsions to feel okay.

• Experience intense anxiety, overthinking, perfectionism, or a constant feeling that something might go wrong.

• Avoid people, places, foods, situations, or experiences because anxiety or fear has gotten in the way of living their life.

• Feel stuck in “what if?” thinking and spend hours analyzing, researching, checking, or seeking reassurance.

• Have a complicated relationship with food or eating because of sensory sensitivities, anxiety, fear of certain foods, or ARFID.

• Know that their behaviors aren't helping—but feel incredibly anxious about what might happen if they stop.

• Are ready to spend less time fighting their mind and body and more time building a meaningful life outside of anxiety, OCD, or an eating disorder.

Yes! If you are unsure if what you are up against is OCD, anxiety, an eating disorder, or something else, please come see me and we can determine that together in our first few sessions. A clear diagnosis can help create a clear path forward to feeling free in your mind and body. A strained relationship with your body, food, or movement is worth working on, no matter what we name it.

If you like my vibe and think we’d be a good match, but you want to just walk through some general life matters, relationship woes, or life transitions, you are welcome here too!

Yes I do! If bringing your faith into the counseling room is important to you, I can be of support on your journey. If you are exploring your faith, wanting to strengthen your spiritual beliefs or practices, or simply want to talk with a counselor of Christian faith, I’m your gal. I’ll let you set the pace on how much or how little you’d like to incorporate spirituality into therapy sessions.

I host sessions Monday - Thursday from 9am to 4pm. I do not at this time offer evening sessions or Friday sessions.

I am currently accepting new clients!