Find a Therapist near Haines City, FL

I integrate evidence-based modalities with a strengths-based, client-centered approach to meet clients' unique needs and because I believe every person has the capacity for healing and growth within them. I’m committed to empowering individuals to determine their own path while supporting them with tools that foster confidence and resilience. I focus on helping you tap into your own strengths and inner wisdom to support meaningful growth. Our work together will be collaborative, and I believe therapy extends beyond our sessions. I provide practical strategies and skills for you to integrate into your daily life, ensuring that your progress continues between appointments. My path to becoming a therapist began in the classroom as a teacher, where I learned that students thrive both academically and personally when their emotional needs are supported. That experience continues to inform my belief in the importance of compassion, connection, and seeing the whole person to help with healing and growth.

Are you feeling overwhelmed by life? Struggling to find the joy? Wondering what it all means? I am dedicated to providing a safe and loving space for you to discuss your deepest concerns without fear of judgment or misunderstanding. With over 30 years of experience in the healthcare helping professions, I have a deep and candid interest in understanding your perspective and supporting you as you learn to make the changes that will lead you closer to the life that you desire and deserve.

I believe counseling is a confidential process intended to aid you in dealing with your self-doubts, life-uncertainties, and personal concerns. I believe counseling will help you better understand your behaviors, thoughts, and feelings, while you discover more effective coping skills. Consequently, counseling is a relationship between you and me. I am dedicated to helping members of the LGBTQ community who struggle with depression, anxiety, coming out, transitioning, HIV diagnosis, relationships, and social factors. I have also dedicated my life to help those who suffer from addiction issues including alcohol, drugs, sex, and gambling. I work with individuals from 18-80-years-old. I have developed an eclectic approach to therapy that fits my holistic style. I utilize many different disciplines including cognitive-behavioral, gestalt, existential, solution-focused, and person-centered therapies. I believe that all people are capable of change and strive to become the best that they can be. I possess the knowledge, motivation, and enthusiasm to assist you in realizing your personal goals through your past and current life experiences. Together we will work on what you think is best for you. My goal is to help you raise your awareness, to achieve your goals, and to discover your personal meaning, growth potential, and psychological health.

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a diverse professional background and a thoughtful, collaborative approach to therapy. I work with individuals of all ages and backgrounds, offering a humanistic and integrative style of care that honors each person’s unique experience. Therapy is tailored to your needs and goals and balance practical skill-building with reflection to support meaningful, sustainable change. With a background in Exercise and Sports Sciences and advanced training in Yoga Therapy, I integrate mind–body approaches into therapy for clients who are open to this work. I am also a Florida Certified Sex Therapist and support individuals navigating sexual health, functioning, desire, arousal, anxiety related to sex, and relationship concerns. I have extensive experience working with eating disorders and incorporate evidence-based approaches such as DBT, CBT, values-based work, and mindfulness to create individualized treatment plans. My professional experience spans a range of settings, including public schools, child welfare, the public defender’s office, dual-diagnosis treatment centers, personal training, and bariatric mental health care. In addition to my clinical work, I serve as Vice President of the Tampa chapter of the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (IAEDP), where I am passionate about education, advocacy, and supporting professionals in the Tampa Bay community. My goal is to help clients better understand and navigate the challenges they face while feeling supported, respected, and engaged in the process. I strive to create a secure, trusting therapeutic space tailored to your individual needs. Whether you are seeking healing, clarity, or personal growth, therapy is approached with care, collaboration, and intention.

As a psychologist, I first want to get to know you, not just your problems. We'll work together to find solutions that fit your needs, your style, and your interests. I'll ask for specific feedback from you to help us determine how to proceed in therapy, striving to help you get the most out of each session.

We offer solutions that are easy to learn and master. We aim to serve as a teacher, interactively offering you the tools and skills you need to become your own counselor. We're more than just listeners; we're also talkers who present you ways to retain the things you've learned. We believe in short-term counseling that offers a lifetime of results.

As licensed clinicians, we focus on meeting with clients who are dealing with trauma, depression, anxiety, personality challenges, and mood challenges. We also help those who need someone to talk to about life stressors and life decisions. Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t. Together, we will reframe negative thoughts into positive ones, build skills to manage intrusive thoughts, and learn how to focus on your strengths.

I help high-achieving men close the gap between who they are at work and who they want to be at home. Many of the men I work with are successful by every outward measure — respected careers, financial stability, families they love — yet they feel disconnected, anxious, and unsure why their relationships aren't working the way they should. My approach is direct, practical, and built around skill-building — not endless processing. I draw on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, polyvagal science, and 30 years of clinical experience to help men understand what is driving their anxiety, their reactivity, and their emotional distance. Then we build the tools to change it. Sessions feel less like traditional therapy and more like focused training. Men leave with something concrete — a script, a strategy, a reset tool they can use that same day. I work with men navigating anxiety, relationship tension, parenting struggles, and the quiet weight of feeling invisible in their own families. Telehealth available throughout Florida. You do not have to keep managing this alone. There is a better way forward.

Healing starts with providing you a place where you can identify, grow from and explore those very issues that may be getting in the way. Whether you are struggling with relationship issues, parenting, career change, loss or life transition, I can help you and give you the tools you need for a successful life. My background consists an abundance of life experiences and the military culture as a military brat as well as a retired spouse of a service member.

With over 30 years of clinical experience, I provide compassionate, empowering, and affirming counseling services that are client-centered and goal-oriented and that develop and enhance my client's strengths and build their coping skills to manage the symptoms of a wide range of mental health conditions. I practice from a philosophy of empowering my clients to achieve balance with their mental and emotional health and to maintain healthy boundaries that support their well-being. I offer therapy sessions that support the goals for change that my clients are seeking for themselves once we both understand what my client wishes to see differently in their lives, then we can explore the interventions that best support the therapeutic work we will do together. In our therapy sessions, we will learn and practice concepts from interventions such as motivational interviewing, cognitive-behavioral therapy principles, cognitive processing therapy strategies, acceptance and commitment principles, and dialectical behavior therapy strategies to help you build a toolbox of skills and techniques the lead to your success with managing the effects of adversity and challenges in your life.