I found profound healing of my own traumas as well as a sustainable and liberating path home to my Self when my therapist introduced me to Internal Family Systems (IFS). IFS provided a way to explore the complex and highly adaptive system within me. Because of my own experience, I began a deep dive into education, trainings, and consultations with the most revered IFS leaders, refining my skills and clarifying my own therapeutic approach. I am curious and compassionate, deeply empathetic, and often directive. My desire is to help clients feel both safe and seen as they navigate this courageous, sacred work to achieve lasting change.

In addition to my therapeutic education, I’ve had the privilege of teaching several thousands of hours of yoga, holding the highest credential possible. I was trained to vigilantly watch anatomical alignment and for the slightest dysfunctional movement patterns in the body. I’ve taught people from all backgrounds and diverse life experiences including seniors, students, and gang members in a juvenile detention center. I’ve learned that we cannot hide our emotional state from our body and that each of us are the experts in our own systems. My background in teaching yoga supports my intuitive use of somatic attachment therapy which is a holistic, body-centered approach to attachment therapy, including a deeper understanding of the body’s relationship with developmental and relational wounding and healing.

I hold a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Trevecca Nazarene University. I am Level 2 Internal Family Systems (IFS), trained specifically in a compassionate approach to the addictive process, as well as Somatic Attachment and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). My clinical work is deeply supported by my personal experience working the twelve steps of Al-Anon and the consistent, ongoing work I do with my own Somatic Attachment IFS Therapist.

This work is a good use of my healing wounds. I hope to guide my clients in their own reclamation work, so they might also experience ease in their own internal family systems and feel well equipped to move through their external family and cultural systems. Each of us is meant to live with compassion, curiosity, clarity, creativity, calm, confidence, courage, connectedness, and choice - to be at home in our authentic Self.