About

First, I want to express gratitude and acknowledge the steps you are taking to seek support. Finding the right therapist at the right time is often tough – on top of everything else you are currently navigating! I want to share a little about myself and my background to make this part of your decision making just a little less mysterious.

Like most pathways to positive change, my career has been anything but linear. In my former career in hospitality management, I found myself consistently diving into side opportunities for immersive learning about culture and holistic health. From certified yoga teacher training at an ashram in Nasik, India; living abroad in Europe and South America; to years of working with sustainable organic agriculture in Lawrence, Kansas while pursuing my master’s degree – I seem to have infinite curiosity for ancient practices, multicultural perspectives, and scientific knowledge about what it is to be healthy, connected, and human.

One of the most fulfilling aspects of being a psychologist is that I get to draw from all these experiences and connect them with the healing practices of therapy in creative and collaborative ways with my clients! As such, whether you are an avid sports fan, a fellow science nerd, an artist, a yogi or a farmer, your interests and skills are just as important to our work together as your struggles and goals are. Understanding each other as whole, complex, contradictory, and ever-learning beings is the foundation on which we form a respectful and trusting therapeutic relationship.

Clinical Background

My formal training in mental health and psychology includes a Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy in Counseling Psychology from the APA accredited University of Kansas. My doctoral training highlights include work in community mental health, college counseling, private practice, and VA hospital clinics. I bring extensive individual and group therapy experience in treating sleep, adjustment and anxiety, career and relationship transitions, substance use, adult ADHD, PTSD and trauma, and stress that accompanies chronic and progressive health conditions.

Clinical Sites:

Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center (KCVA)  
Interdisciplinary mental and behavioral health for Veterans

Ampersand Psych Clinic
Private practice specializing in eating disorder treatment 

Counseling and Psychological Services, University of Kansas  
Adjustment, identity, relationship and vocational counseling 

KCVA Substance Use Disorder Clinic 
Outpatient treatment for substance use recovery

The Guidance Center 
Community Mental Health and severe mental illness services

Counseling Laboratory for the Exploration of Optimal States 
Personality and vocational counseling and assessment for highly creative adolescents