For the person who's been holding it all together for far too long.

Something doesn't feel right.

Maybe your mood shifts without warning. Maybe anxiety has become a constant companion. Maybe you've spent years being told you're "too much." Or perhaps you've felt emotionally disconnected for so long that you've stopped believing things can be different.

You don't have to carry that alone.

Individual therapy is a collaborative space where we move at a pace that feels safe, intentional, and meaningful. Whether we explore the deeper roots of your experiences or focus on building practical skills for today, treatment is individualized to your unique goals, strengths, and lived experiences.

My approach is intentionally eclectic, integrating evidence-based modalities such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), trauma-informed care, Motivational Interviewing, mindfulness-based interventions, and other therapeutic approaches that best support your needs. Rather than fitting you into a single treatment model, therapy is thoughtfully tailored to fit you.

At Mental Wellness University, I believe therapy is also an opportunity for education. As we work together, you'll gain a deeper understanding of the connection between your thoughts, emotions, behaviors, relationships, and life experiences—because understanding why something happens is often the first step toward creating lasting change.

I provide affirming, culturally responsive care for individuals from diverse backgrounds, including LGBTQ+ clients navigating identity, relationships, life transitions, and the unique stressors that can arise from discrimination, minority stress, and environments that may not always feel safe or inclusive.

I also have clinical experience supporting individuals experiencing eating disorders and disordered eating patterns, utilizing evidence-based interventions that address the emotional, behavioral, and relational factors contributing to these experiences while supporting sustainable recovery.

Therapy is not about becoming someone different.

It is about understanding yourself more deeply, building practical skills, strengthening resilience, and becoming more fully the person you were created to be.

Individual therapy services are available through secure telehealth for clients throughout California and Alaska.

For the pre-teen or adolescent who feels misunderstood and the family searching for a path toward connection, understanding, and hope.

Growing up isn't easy. The pre-teen and adolescent years are filled with rapid emotional, social, and developmental change. School pressures, friendships, family relationships, identity development, social media, and life's unexpected challenges can all have a significant impact on a young person's mental health and emotional well-being.

I provide compassionate, evidence-based therapy for pre-teens and adolescents experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, mood disorders, behavioral challenges, emotional dysregulation, life transitions, and other mental health concerns. My goal is to create a therapeutic space where young people feel heard, respected, and understood while developing practical skills that build confidence, resilience, and emotional wellness.

My approach is intentionally individualized, integrating evidence-based modalities such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), trauma-informed care, mindfulness, family systems principles, and psychoeducation. Treatment is tailored to each young person's developmental stage, strengths, and unique needs because every child and adolescent experiences the world differently.

I believe therapy is also an opportunity for education. Helping pre-teens and adolescents understand why they think, feel, and respond the way they do can reduce shame, strengthen self-awareness, and empower them to make healthier choices. My goal is not only to help them navigate today's challenges but to equip them with skills they can carry into adulthood.

Because meaningful change rarely happens in isolation, parents and caregivers are valuable partners in the therapeutic process. When clinically appropriate, I collaborate with families to strengthen communication, improve relationships, increase understanding, and create a home environment that supports lasting growth beyond the therapy session.

Every pre-teen and adolescent deserves to feel seen, understood, supported, and empowered to thrive—not only today, but throughout every stage of life.

Pre-Teen and Adolescent Therapy is available through secure telehealth for clients throughout California and Alaska.

For the young adult navigating one of life's biggest transitions while trying to discover who they are and where they're going.

Emerging adulthood can be exciting, uncertain, and overwhelming all at once. Whether you're navigating college, career decisions, independence, relationships, identity, or simply trying to figure out your next step, this stage of life often brings challenges that can impact your mental health and overall well-being.

I provide evidence-based therapy for Transitional Age Youth (ages 16–25) experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, mood disorders, OCD, life transitions, emotional regulation challenges, and difficulties adjusting to adulthood. Together, we'll identify the patterns that are keeping you stuck, strengthen practical coping skills, and build the confidence needed to move forward with greater clarity and purpose.

My approach integrates Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), trauma-informed care, Motivational Interviewing, and other evidence-based interventions tailored to your individual needs, goals, and lived experiences.

Therapy is available through secure telehealth for clients throughout California and Alaska.

Family Therapy

For families who love one another deeply but find themselves caught in patterns they no longer know how to change.

Families are complex. Every relationship is shaped by individual experiences, communication styles, cultural values, life transitions, and, at times, the lasting effects of trauma. Even with the best intentions, families can become stuck in cycles of misunderstanding, conflict, and emotional distance.

Family therapy provides a supportive, structured space where every family member has the opportunity to be heard with curiosity, compassion, and respect. Rather than focusing on one individual as "the problem," we work together to understand how family patterns develop, how they are maintained, and how healthier patterns of communication, connection, and understanding can be created.

I work with families navigating adolescent behavioral concerns, anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting challenges, relationship conflict, life transitions, and the emotional impact of mental health conditions. Treatment is collaborative, evidence-based, and individualized to each family's unique strengths, values, and goals.

At Mental Wellness University, I believe family therapy is also an opportunity for education. As families gain a deeper understanding of how emotions, behaviors, communication patterns, developmental stages, and life experiences influence one another, they are often better equipped to respond with empathy rather than frustration. Education creates understanding, and understanding creates opportunities for meaningful change.

I also provide affirming support for families with LGBTQ+ adolescents and adults, helping create environments where identity is respected, communication is strengthened, healthy boundaries are established, and every family member has the opportunity to feel heard, valued, and supported.

My approach integrates family systems principles, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), trauma-informed care, psychoeducation, and practical communication strategies that strengthen relationships both inside and outside of the therapy room.

The goal of family therapy is not to determine who is right or wrong. It is to strengthen relationships, deepen understanding, improve communication, and create a healthier foundation where every member of the family has the opportunity to grow, heal, and thrive together.

Family therapy services are available through secure telehealth for clients throughout California.

For the client who desires to integrate faith into the healing process.

For many individuals, faith is not separate from mental health—it is an important part of how they understand hope, resilience, purpose, healing, and life's most difficult seasons.

For clients who choose to incorporate their Christian faith into therapy, I offer an approach that thoughtfully integrates evidence-based clinical care with biblical principles and spiritual reflection. The therapeutic process remains grounded in sound clinical practice while honoring the role that faith may play in your healing journey.

Christian counseling is never imposed or assumed. It is a client-centered service offered only when it aligns with your beliefs, values, and treatment goals. Together, we can explore life's challenges through both a clinical and faith-informed lens, creating space for emotional healing, spiritual growth, self-reflection, forgiveness, grief, identity development, relationship challenges, and restoration.

At Mental Wellness University, I believe therapy is also an opportunity for education. As we explore the connection between your thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and spiritual beliefs, my goal is to help you develop greater understanding, strengthen your relationship with God, and cultivate practical skills that support both your emotional and spiritual well-being.

Whether you're navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, relationship challenges, or questions of purpose, therapy can provide a space where your emotional health and your faith are welcomed into the same conversation.

My role is not to replace your relationship with God, your church, or your faith community. Rather, I walk alongside you as a licensed clinical social worker, providing evidence-based care while honoring the values and beliefs that are most meaningful to you.

Christian counseling services are available through secure telehealth for clients throughout California and Alaska.

Clinical Supervision

For MSW Associates (ACSWs), Associate Marriage and Family Therapists (AMFTs), and MSW interns who are committed to becoming thoughtful, ethical, and confident clinicians.

Clinical supervision is more than a requirement for licensure—it is an opportunity to develop clinical judgment, strengthen your professional identity, and cultivate the skills necessary to provide competent, compassionate, and evidence-based care.

Drawing from an extensive clinical background across child welfare, foster care, residential treatment, psychiatric and behavioral health settings, managed care, and private practice, I provide supervision that bridges evidence-based practice with the realities of clinical work. My goal is not simply to help you complete supervision hours. My goal is to help you become the kind of clinician who thinks critically, practices ethically, leads with cultural humility, and remains committed to lifelong learning.

At Mental Wellness University, Licensed Clinical Social Worker Inc., I believe supervision is also an opportunity for education. Clinical competence develops through curiosity, reflection, mentorship, and intentional practice. My role is to challenge your thinking, strengthen your clinical judgment, and help you develop the confidence needed to provide exceptional care to the individuals, families, and communities you serve.

Supervision is collaborative, educational, and rooted in curiosity. Together, we strengthen case conceptualization, assessment and diagnostic skills, treatment planning, clinical documentation, ethical decision-making, cultural responsiveness, professional boundaries, and the practical application of evidence-based interventions. I believe supervision should both challenge and support you as you continue to grow into the clinician you aspire to become.

As Mental Wellness University, Licensed Clinical Social Worker Inc. continues to grow, my vision is to help shape the next generation of behavioral health professionals through clinical supervision, university partnerships, workforce development initiatives, and innovative training opportunities that strengthen both clinicians and the communities they serve.

Whether you are completing your graduate training or working toward independent licensure, supervision is an investment in the clinician—and leader—you are becoming. I look forward to supporting you as you develop the confidence, clinical judgment, and professional identity that will serve both you and your future clients for years to come.

Individual clinical supervision is available through secure telehealth for clinicians throughout California. Supervision fees apply.

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For the person carrying experiences that continue to shape how they think, feel, relate, and move through the world.

Trauma doesn't always look the way people expect it to. It can result from a single overwhelming event, repeated experiences over time, childhood adversity, loss, abuse, neglect, difficult relationships, or other experiences that leave a lasting impact on your emotional well-being.

Sometimes trauma shows up as anxiety, depression, emotional numbness, difficulty trusting others, perfectionism, people-pleasing, irritability, relationship challenges, or feeling constantly on guard without fully understanding why.

You don't have to navigate those experiences alone.

My approach to trauma therapy is compassionate, collaborative, and trauma-informed. Together, we'll work to understand how past experiences may be influencing your present while developing practical skills to foster emotional regulation, resilience, healthier relationships, and lasting healing.

At Mental Wellness University, Licensed Clinical Social Worker Inc., I believe therapy is also an opportunity for education. Understanding how trauma affects the brain, body, emotions, and relationships can reduce shame, increase self-awareness, and empower you to respond to yourself with greater compassion. Healing begins when we understand not only what happened, but also how it continues to affect us today.

Treatment is individualized and may integrate evidence-based approaches including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), trauma-informed care, Motivational Interviewing, mindfulness-based interventions, psychoeducation, and other therapeutic approaches tailored to your unique needs and goals.

Healing does not require forgetting your past. It means developing the understanding, skills, and support needed to move forward with greater confidence, resilience, and hope.

Trauma Therapy services are available through secure telehealth for clients throughout California and Alaska.

For the person who feels like their emotions are making decisions before they have the chance to.

Living with overwhelming emotions can be exhausting. You may feel like your reactions are happening faster than your ability to slow them down. Maybe relationships feel difficult to navigate, stress becomes overwhelming, or emotions seem to shift more intensely than you'd like. If this sounds familiar, you're not alone.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based approach that helps individuals better understand their emotions while developing practical skills to navigate life's challenges with greater confidence, balance, and intention.

As a DBT-trained clinician, I integrate DBT into individualized treatment with adolescents, young adults, and adults. My approach is collaborative, compassionate, and educational because understanding why emotions happen is just as important as learning how to respond to them.

DBT is built upon four core skill areas:

Mindfulness — Developing present-moment awareness without judgment.

Distress Tolerance — Learning healthy ways to manage emotional pain and difficult situations without making them worse.

Emotion Regulation — Understanding emotions and developing practical strategies to respond more effectively.

Interpersonal Effectiveness — Building healthier relationships through communication, boundaries, and self-respect.

At Mental Wellness University, I believe therapy is also an opportunity for education. DBT doesn't teach you to ignore emotions—it teaches you to understand them, respond to them more effectively, and develop skills that support lasting emotional wellness both inside and outside of therapy.

The goal isn't to eliminate difficult emotions.

The goal is to help you build a life where your emotions no longer control your decisions—they become information you can understand, manage, and respond to with intention.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) services are available through secure telehealth for clients throughout California and Alaska.

For the person who wants to better understand the connection between their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors—and learn how to create meaningful, lasting change.

Our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are deeply connected. The way we think influences how we feel, and the way we feel often shapes how we respond to ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one of the most extensively researched and evidence-based approaches to mental health because it helps individuals recognize these patterns and develop healthier, more effective ways of responding.

CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful or distorted thinking patterns, understanding how they influence emotions and behaviors, and learning to replace them with more balanced, realistic, and adaptive perspectives. This isn't about pretending everything is okay or embracing toxic positivity. It's about learning to examine your thoughts with curiosity, evaluate them through evidence, and respond with greater intention rather than reacting automatically.

My approach to CBT is individualized because no two people experience life the same way. Together, we'll identify the patterns that are keeping you stuck, strengthen practical coping skills, and develop strategies you can confidently apply in everyday life.

At Mental Wellness University, I believe therapy is also an opportunity for education. Understanding why certain thoughts, emotions, and behavioral patterns continue to appear is often the first step toward creating meaningful change. My goal is not simply to help you feel better today, but to help you develop the knowledge, insight, and confidence to continue applying these skills long after therapy has ended.

Whether you're navigating anxiety, depression, chronic stress, low self-esteem, perfectionism, life transitions, or everyday challenges, CBT provides practical tools that support greater self-awareness, emotional resilience, and long-term psychological well-being.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) services are available through secure telehealth for clients throughout California and Alaska.