Therapist Profile

My Approach to Helping

I see therapy as a collaborative relationship between the you and me. Whatever a your individual goals may be, I see my role as empowering, supporting and, at times, offering possible alternative perspectives to the you as the client. In this way, I can help you make progress toward your goals and move closer to the place at which you would like to be in life. I also believes that whatever spiritual or religious tradition may, or may not, be a part of a person's experience, each of us has questions about life's deeper meanings. I truly believe therapy is a unique opportunity for you to find the answers that are authentic to yourself and your own sense of spirituality. Having learned from the suffering in my own life's journey and grown stronger, I find helping others to heal and grow into a stronger sense of themselves to be the most meaningful work for me personally and professionally.

Please see my website for more information about me... I am also excited to be expanding my appointment times into more daytime hours.

More Info About My Practice

I am a Licensed Graduate Social Worker who has been working with people in a variety of capacities to help them reach their goals and improve their quality of life for about 18 years. I have a BA in Spanish, a Masters Degree in Theology from St. Meinrad School of Theology in Indiana, and a Masters in Social Work from Augsburg College in Minneapolis. I have experience as a crisis counselor and completed training as a sexual assault counselor as well. In the past, I have worked as a lay chaplain at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis and LaRua Carter Psychiatric Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana. Various internships and practica that I have completed include hospice work with terminally ill persons and their families, in-home counseling to at-risk families, and psychotherapy internship at Hamm Clinic in St.Paul, MN. Currently I am a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the Minnesota Society for Clinical Social Work.