Dedicated to helping you find joy, restoration, and peace
We’re in this together
My clients find satisfaction and fulfillment in our work because we center self-compassion and non-judgment in every conversation.
I help clients develop skills in treating themselves with compassion and developing practices of self-awareness and self-worth. These are skills that we can practice every day to find more satisfaction, fulfillment, and understanding in our lives.
Our work can take different forms, and is often a mix of:
Compassion-centered, collaborative conversations
Behavioral interventions such as exposure therapy for anxiety
Somatic awareness practices including body + mind check-ins and exercises to reconnect with the body
Here + now conversations that acknowledge the feelings and processes in the room and look at inner experience
My role as a therapist
To make the most of the therapy, we must practice a stance of curiosity and imagination. When we can do so, we’re empowered to see possibilities other than what’s in front of us. If we can’t imagine new possibilities and opportunities, we stay stuck. When my clients aren’t yet ready to hold curiosity or imagination, I hold it for them.
My role as a counselor is to gently challenge, push, and confront blind spots as these are where learning and growth happen. It is also my responsibility to hold space for my clients – time and energy that may not otherwise be reserved to slow down and look around.
In some ways, I am also a teacher and guide as clients develop self-compassion, mindfulness, and acceptance skills and develop new behaviors and ways of being.
My story
Like many of my clients, I’ve had my struggles with anxiety. In fact, I initially wanted to become a therapist so that I could work with people on overcoming fear of flying after I accomplished this myself. I went from not being able to board a short flight to being able to fly around the world alone. This journey of overcoming my fears inspired me to help others face their own.
After completing an undergrad degree in English, I took some time off before attending grad school. During this period, I worked in various office settings and for myself, gaining diverse experiences and insights into different work environments. In 2013, as I started grad school, I began working with children with autism doing applied behavior analysis and behavior therapy. I also worked at California Family Institute for my practicum, and appreciated the experience of working with people and families so different. Some clients were rebuilding their family after time spent in prison; others were processing the loss of a beloved family member or working on maintaining their sobriety. They had views and beliefs so different than mine, but what I love about working with every client is that when you truly get to know and understand someone, you can relate to them and genuinely appreciate and respect them and their story.
As I continued running a small business and managing a team of project managers, designers, and developers, I always knew that my passion was in counseling and working with individuals and anxiety. The experience of running a business and working in a 9-5 has given me the opportunity to learn about communication and management, and understand many of clients’ woes and worries about work.
In 2024, I felt ready to develop what I truly wanted to invest in: a private practice driven by curiosity, imagination, advocacy, and empowerment. I said goodbye to other things I had loved, and made the transition into full-time private practice to focus on helping my clients.
I moved to Colorado in 2016 and continued splitting my time between working as a counselor and running a small business designing and developing websites. I worked with teens at Colorado Teen Therapy (now Connect & Thrive Colorado) before moving into private practice in 2018.
Training & Continuing Education
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing for trauma, anxiety, OCD, and phobias
Exposure & Response Prevention Therapy
Narrative Therapy
Eco therapy and nature-based experiential therapy
Compassion in Psychotherapy
Nutritional and Integrative Medicine for Mental Health Professionals
Using Dialectics Across Therapeutic Modalities
Dismantling Racial Oppression in Clinical Practice
Values Clarification
Education & Work Experience
Open View Counseling, Owner, Founder, & Licensed Professional Counselor (2018-present)
Colorado Teen Therapy, now Connect & Thrive Colorado, Licensed Professional Counselor (2016-2018)
Bending Birch Behavioral Therapy, Registered Behavior Technician & Board Certified Behavior Analyst (2016-2018)
InSTEPPS Behavior Therapy, Registered Behavior Technician (2014-2016)
California Family Institute, MFT Trainee (2015-2016)
Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education & Psychology, Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage & Family Therapy (2016)
Florida Institute of Technology, Certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis (2016)
Dickinson College, Bachelor of Arts in English (2010)
To get started, schedule a free consultation so that we can talk about what you’d like to work on and what you’re looking for.
I can share more background on my approach and therapy style, and we can chat about logistics and scheduling.