Specialties

“We can know what better is without knowing what good is.”

-Steve de Shazer

"Good" is elusive; "better" we can build. So often, therapy defines "good" through long term treatment at an indefinite expense. I offer a different approach to healing and helping that is both deep and surface, brief and sufficient, respectful and challenging. Solution-Focused Therapy with me requires teamwork. Should we work together, you and I are part of a team in our therapeutic relationship. As surely as you seek my expertise in help and healing, I need your feedback to be the expert you need. This is how we will describe what better means for you. 

I specialize in three areas: Substance Use Recovery, Grief and Trauma, and Athletics Counseling. Trauma may be a common thread in your story. If it is important to you, we can follow that thread to new insights about you. We can describe your story, and I would be honored to witness your journey. Where there is trauma, there is also resilience. We will build upon your resilience. We will elicit your life in recovery, constructing that future through our conversation(s). We will amplify a new normal in grief, how you honor your loved one, past life, or previous identity as you meet an older, wiser version of yourself. We will celebrate your life through the eyes of your community, the people who notice what you and I might miss. We will see you for all that you are, more than the sum of your parts. So watch the videos below, explore this site, take time to reflect. Please call when you are ready for a difference that makes a difference. I am here, and I can help.

Athletics Counseling

"I am because we are. Because we are, I am."

-Ubuntu (African Proverb)

Substance Use Recovery

"Identification is just the beginning. We live a life of recovery so different from our past. One day at a time our recovery is proven, not promised."

-Anonymous

Grief & Trauma

“Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.” 

-C.S. Lewis