My work centers on here-and-now struggles: the pain or distress showing up in your relationships, your mood, or your body right now. I draw on evidence-based practices to help calm an anxious nervous system, process grief and trauma safely, and rebuild a sense of stability and hope. For couples, I bring specialized training in marital therapy, including intensive, immersive work for relationships that are stuck, hurting, or in crisis. For individuals, I help you untangle the insight that often comes wrapped in grief, despair, or unrest, so it can actually move you forward instead of staying stuck. For clients who want it, I also welcome exploring the theological and spiritual questions that sit underneath so much of our pain—the "why" questions, the meaning-making, the wrestling with faith in hard seasons. This isn't required for our work together, but it's always on the table if it matters to you. Outside the therapy room, I've spent decades in roles that shape how I show up with clients: leadership in higher education, corporate, and ministry settings; group therapy work in a psychiatric inpatient hospital, and serving as a co-therapist for Focus on the Family's Hope Restored marriage intensives. I've been married to my husband, Dave, since 1987. I'm a parent to two young adults. And I know firsthand what it means to keep fighting for joy through life's hardest chapters. If any of this resonates, I'd love to hear your story and see if we're a good fit to work together.
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