About Me
Below is information to help you feel comfortable and prepared as we start our journey together!
Early Childhood Mental Health
Licensed Therapist
Therapy is my passion and my calling. It is a joy and a privilege to walk with you and share in your life. I see families in all combinations and people of all ages. I do offer specialization in Early Childhood Mental Health. I focus on helping families with babies and young children grow, learn, and thrive in their home environment and within their most important relationship: their family.
Did you know that 90% of a child’s brain is wired by age 5? The brain will never fire and wire this way again, the actual architecture of the brain is literally being built and shaped by environment and experience. And these experiences determine the course of children’s social-emotional development. Let’s work together to make sure your child’s environment is secure, loving, and enriched.
Expect that together we will…
work on fostering positive interactions and securing attachment
ensure kids are meeting developmental milestones
address common challenging behaviors such as tantrums, setting limits, bedtime, routines and transitions
supporting the caregivers–at EVERY visit. How are you? Does your family have the connections and resources you need? How does the way you were parented inform your own parenting? How are your relationships and your mental health?
My Approach & Values
Home visits are my passion. I truly believe that to fully access the skills learned in therapy they are best practiced in real time and in your real life, not an artificial setting. If your life includes toddlers who don’t nap or teenagers who argue, then the whole process works best when I can see it and we can work together for solutions that will work for your actual, real family. Messy houses and pets included.
I also believe that people grow and change in relationship, and I will enter our relationship with no judgement, with mad respect for you, and full knowledge that YOU are the expert on your family.
My Experience
- Provided mental health support inside the schools for 3 years
- 3 years as Parent Educator with Parents as Teachers
- Over 5 years as a home visitor in private practice, working with individuals of all ages, couples, and families.
My Education
- Master’s in Family Therapy from Friends University
- Continuing Education in Early Childhood Mental Health
- Continuing Education through PSI (Postpartum Support International) in perinatal mood disorders
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