About me

Before opening a private practice, I worked for four years as a therapist at Carolina House, a residential facility for adult women with eating disorders. As a therapist I worked with individual women, as well as their partners and families. I was hired as the Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Specialist, and later studied Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and began leading restorative yoga as part of the somatic modalities offered at Carolina House. I also lead other groups such as Body Image and Body Wisdom, Empowerment, Relapse Prevention, Interpersonal Process, and Media Awareness.

In August 2014 I received a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from North Carolina Central University. I am a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) in North Carolina, which is approved by the North Carolina Board of Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselors (NCBLCMHC). I completed my year-long master’s practicum and internship at the Duke Cancer Center. While there, I used a family systems approach and a wide array of counseling methods to assist individuals, couples, and families who are experiencing and adjusting to the impact of a cancer diagnosis and the corresponding processes of treatment and recovery. I facilitated support groups for caregivers and thoracic cancer patients.

I have been a Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT) and have taught yoga to various special populations (cancer patients, people with Multiple Sclerosis, and eating disorders) as well as the general public since 2000. This has given me extensive experience working with and through the body to support emotional, behavioral, cognitive, and physical change and growth. I have considerable experience with meditation and mindfulness practices, and additional training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction with Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli and Mindfulness-Based Smoking Cessation with Dr. James Davis.

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Counseling background

My therapeutic foundation is based on a blend of Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, mindful attention to our inner life, and a full, heartfelt engagement with the world.  I believe people have the skills, competencies, beliefs, values, and abilities that will help them reduce the influence of problems in their lives. Often, suffering is relieved when people are able to live with reality in a way that lessens their resistance to it.

I have completed the level one training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and use somatic approaches in combination with mindfulness practices and behavioral techniques to empower clients to make the internal and external changes necessary to cope with the ups and downs of life and to maximize their benefit and enjoyment of life. Using somatic awareness, mindfulness, meditation, breathing, and physical movement techniques, it is my hope to help people uncover and develop their strengths, so that they can live more fully and enjoy more emotional balance, stronger relationships, and get what they want out of life.

There is no one set way that we will do therapy together, and there is no set length of time that it will take. We will create a dynamic and organic relationship that I hope, will bring balance, meaning, and effectiveness to your life, so that you may flourish.