Transform your life with expert therapy and mental health support as you embark on your journey towards personal growth. A proud member of the Peachtree Psychology staff since 2019.
Why Therapy, Why Now
Not all challenges in life are specific diagnoses.
Often times we are challenged with the human condition called life - our Psyche is not well.
You may find yourself struggling with:
- Difficulties in relationships
- Divorce
- Abusive relationships
- Major life changes
- Blended families and step-parenting
- Retirement, Career Transitions, Work Difficulties
- Burnout
- Grief
- Sense of unfulfillment in life
- Seeking a desire for wholeness and meaning
- Spiritual exploration
- Strong intuition that something is not right on the inside of you
Your symptoms may manifest in different ways:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Turmoil
- Dissatisfaction
- Inner sense of being lost
- A multitude of feelings worthy of examination, curiosity and healing.
My Approach - Holistic
I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) for the State of Georgia and Florida. I offer sessions in person in the Marietta/Kennesaw/Smyrna area and also offer Telehealth services for Georgia and Florida.
I hold an interest in Jungian psychoanalysis, depth therapy, person centered, psychodynamic and existential therapeutic approaches.
What does that mean? It means when we are together in the therapy room we are focusing on what is in the room in that moment. It is a non-directive approach and a mutual exploration and often a theme emerges. What is the story being told inside of you, how do we excavate that story within you to 'out' of you and how do we get to understand that story better. Your inner story has served a purpose and often protects you - sometimes in your best interests and sometimes not.
Curiosity is the pathway to examining and exploring your whole Self.
Therapeutic Dreamwork
"Dreams come to us in the spirit of health and wholeness" - Jeremy Taylor
Dreams are a pathway to our Psyche. While we sleep our dreams continue to work to heal us and offer us insights about ourselves. Our dreams speak in a symbolic language - in our work, we can incorporate your dreams to explore the story being told inside of you.
My Story
After spending 32 years in the corporate world - I made a major life pivot to move into the counseling field.
After a difficult period during my career, which I dubbed my 'flame out' period, I chose to take stock in what I desired in my life and the direction I wished to go professionally and it was not remaining in a technical field. The universe has a way of realigning itself with your path in life. Early in my college career, I held an interest in mental health and took a detour to Engineering and my corporate life. My burnout brought me back to my original interest. Back to grad school I went! My desire and drive was strong and over a ten year period of paralleling my corporate job and counseling studies, training and working with clients - the tortoise (me) crossed the finish line and was able to retire and move fully into my encore career of counseling.
I bring to our time together wisdom - a mix of logic and heart - in an effort to understand your world and struggles and every so often we will laugh together too!
Areas of Interest and Credentials
- Current Participant Training with Memphis-Atlanta Jungian Seminar
- Completion of Fellowships in 2024 and 2025 with Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute
- Licensed Professional Counselor since 2024
- Certificate with Institute of Dream Studies since 2023
- Intensive Training on Narcissistic and Psychopathic Abuse: The Clinicians Guide to the New Field of Traumatic Pathological Love Relationships in 2022
- Licensed Telehealth Provider in Florida since 2021
- Member National Certified Counselor 2020
- Licensed Associate Professional Counselor since 2019
- Member American Academy of Psychotherapists since 2019
- Providing services through Peachtree Psychology since 2019
- Masters in Counseling from Wake Forest University 2019
- Member American Counseling Association since 2016
- Bachelor of Science Michigan State University Engineering Emphasis in Telecommunications 1992