Our licensed therapists are passionate about helping individuals, couples, families, and teens find healing and growth. We bring diverse experience and a shared commitment to helping you move forward.
That gives us the same message as the original Counseling Team section without carrying over its long paragraph. The original specifically emphasizes caring, acceptance, hope, diverse experience, different therapeutic styles, and finding the right therapist fit.
I deeply value the relationships I build with my clients. It can be difficult to trust a new person and I will work to ensure that I am someone you feel safe with.
Counseling offers a supportive relationship where we can reconnect and unpack our pain, face our shame, receive grace, understanding and support.
Some of the greatest efforts we will make in and for our lives will be in the relationships, the associations, and the connections we have with others.
My goal is to help you identify how your beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and actions can help you move towards being the person you want to be and having the life you want.
I believe that from my unique perspective and philosophy, I can help instill hope and equip you to create the long-lasting change you wish to see.
I recognize and respect when space is needed and I am always happy to work at a pace that works for you.
My family experiences have increased my empathy and understanding of family and couple relations, which aids my therapy with the many couples I counsel.
In my work with you, I aim to create a welcoming, accepting, genuine, and nonjudgmental space to facilitate exploration and change.
I feel strongly that the systems we are a part of and engage with are key to how we view ourselves and others. Our relationships are how we experience life.
We are a group of helpers who focus in being stronger together, helping clients grow, modeling open and honest communication and making purposeful connections!
My therapeutic approach more integrative and is influenced by education in cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and unconditional positive regard.
I believe that the counseling process is here for you to find peace, access sustainable safety within yourself, and discover new meaning to charter life with fresh perspective and practical tools.
Person-centered, trauma-informed therapy integrating existential, CBT, and ACT approaches to foster self-understanding, resilience, and meaningful growth.
When waves of sorrow, pain, anger, loss, or other strong emotions become too overwhelming, it can muddy the waters and make it difficult to weather life’s storms alone.
Treatment can help to strengthen our connection with others and aide in developing a better capacity to join with others in a positive and affirming way.
My goal is to support you in making sense of what you’ve lived through while building skills and insight that allow you to move forward with greater clarity, self-compassion, and confidence.
Social justice and advocacy for human rights have always been central to my identity both as a therapist and as a person.
I believe humor, curiosity, and compassion can all coexist in the therapy room, and I strive to create an environment where people feel comfortable being their true selves — even in the messy parts of life.
Together, we’ll uncover patterns, build resilience, and discover new ways to move forward—all while honoring your culture, values, and lived experiences.
I hope to help you explore the thoughts, feelings, and experiences that have shaped you – to help you realize your own greatness and to overcome whatever barriers may seem to hold you back.
My goal for each client is for them to be able to improve their relationship with themselves, develop skills that help them overcome adversity, and life a full healthy life.
A compassionate, collaborative, strengths-based approach integrating person-centered and family systems frameworks to foster resilience and lasting change.
Bringing business leadership and customer-service experience to expand accessible, compassionate therapy support for individuals and families.
My approach includes focusing on emotions, communication, thought and behavior patterns, and self-compassion.
My job as your therapist is to help you gain insight and make positive changes in your life. I approach therapy in a non-judgmental way, with open communication, insight and humor.
I do this work because I have personally experienced the value of having support through life’s growing pains.
It is important to me that my clients feel empowered by the counseling experience, and I work hard to build a relationship that encourages choice, self-awareness, and self-determination.
The therapeutic relationship between us is the center of our work and you can expect a compassionate, non-judgmental, gently challenging, and supportive environment.
Therapy must be a collaborative process guided by your goals.
Participating in therapy allows us to enter the painful parts of ourselves and our lives and find the way through to the other side to build our lives the way we want it to look.
As a therapist, I feel passionate about helping my clients reach greater self-awareness and self-acceptance.
I am especially passionate about supporting neurodivergent and BIPOC individuals in spaces that are culturally responsive, affirming, and grounded in lived experience.
My hope as a therapist is to partner with you to identify obstacles that may be getting in your way and finding solutions to remove these obstacles that work for you.
Whatever it is you are coming in with, I believe it takes a great deal of courage to honestly examine your life.
Counseling is a process that can be awkward at first, but I am very good at helping people settle in and feel comfortable.
I address your past as much as is needed for healing, though I tend to focus more on making changes in the present moment and empowering goals for the future.
I believe that an important part of therapy is the therapeutic relationship between myself and my clients.
I believe we all inherently deserve closeness, safety, compassion, and connection with ourselves and the people in our lives.
I believe that childhood family dynamics, traumatic experiences, dramatic life changes, and the methods you learned to manage emotions play a key role in personal development and life choices.
I am here to walk alongside you throughout your therapeutic journey as you discover what you uniquely need to live abundantly.
Therapy provides an opportunity to explore the difficult and meaningful parts of our lives in a safe, supportive environment.
My role is to create a safe and supportive environment where you can freely explore your thoughts and feelings without fear of judgment.
I believe in creating honest, purposeful connections that help clients grow, communicate openly, and navigate meaningful change.
Therapy is a powerful opportunity to better understand yourself and gain the tools to write your own story with compassionate guidance.
Therapy is a collaborative process, and I strive to create an environment where clients feel safe enough to be honest, vulnerable, and fully human.
You are always welcome to speak freely, reflect deeply, and move at a pace that feels right for you. Your comfort and sense of agency are central to the work we do together.
I believe that you have the strengths needed to reconnect with who you are and who you want to be as you clarify your core values and use them as motivation and inspiration.
A collaborative environment in therapy is a powerful force that can lead to real change for clients. Even so, I can’t walk the path for my clients, but I can be with them along the journey.
I believe that by deconstructing old stories and patterns and trying out new ways of feeling, making meaning, and relating, change will occur.
It is normal to struggle with managing these big emotions, and we are not always given the tools to navigate these tough experiences in healthy and productive ways.
I am a systemic therapist who works to help cultivate a balanced and rewarding relationship for each individual involved.
Whether you’re pursuing individual, family or couples counseling, you deserve to be heard and understood.
Attachment theory helps us understand how our earliest relationships shape the ways we connect with ourselves and others throughout life.
My approach is attachment-focused, compassionate, and collaborative, integrating evidence-based therapies to foster clarity, resilience, and healthier relationships.
Through my studies, my practice, and my own personal journey, I have a deep, intrinsic understanding of how challenging it can be to look at and work through difficult obstacles.
I aim to provide a safe space for you to work from with genuine empathy, understanding and acceptance.
I believe that at the center of therapy, there needs to be a strong working relationship between client and therapist.
I am compassionate and resourceful and will always provide effective tools and strategies to help tackle various everyday obstacles in life, from crisis intervention to support after a long week.
My hope is that our work together will help you feel more grounded, more hopeful, and more confident in who you are.
I am trained in Mindfulness where I create a calm space to practice being in the present and cope with the current issues.
Since 2017, I have lived in Vancouver Washington and worked as a counselor in both private practice and community mental health.
For clients with untreated trauma, something as “simple” as going to the store can seem like an impossible feat.
