I help people gain traction to optimize their lives. I'm a licensed therapist and integration coach working with people ready to move forward — recovering from trauma, preparing for or integrating a psychedelic experience, or navigating a life that no longer fits.
About my practice
I started this practice because the work I most wanted to do — trauma-informed psychotherapy paired with careful preparation and integration for psychedelic experiences — didn't fit tidily into any single professional box. Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CMHC), licensed in Utah. Additionally credentialed as National Certified Counselor (NCC). I've spent the last six years working with adults at the edge of change — people who aren't in crisis, but are quietly done with how things have been and struggling to get traction despite all the work they've done.
My approach is trauma-informed, which is a phrase that means different things to different clinicians. For me it means: I pay attention to the body as much as to the story. I don't rush to make a hard feeling go away. I treat the nervous system as the substrate that change actually happens on — not as a metaphor. I draw on evidence-informed modalities — EMDR, somatic experiencing, parts work, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy — when they fit the person and the moment, and I hold all of it inside a relational frame, because the relationship is the single best predictor of whether therapy works.
I see clients in person at my office in Murray, Utah and by telehealth across the state. I know what it's like to sit in both chairs — and that knowing is part of how I work.
Credentials & training
- Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CMHC), licensed by the Utah Division of Professional Licensing
- National Certified Counselor (NCC) — National Board for Certified Counselors
- Master's in Mental Health Counseling — The Ohio State University
- BA, Psychology, magna cum laude — The Ohio State University
- Graduate Capstone Project on Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy for Trauma — Northwestern University
- Training in EMDR, Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Somatic Experiencing
- Director of Research & Development, Dr. Lisa Gold's KAP practice model
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How I think about the work
I don't think therapy is supposed to make you a different person. I think it's supposed to help you recognize, with less shame and more clarity, who you already are — and then give you room to move from there. Sometimes that looks like relief from a symptom. Sometimes it looks like a slow, deliberate reorganization of a life. Usually it looks like both, in that order. My job is to hold the space where that work can happen, and to bring the clinical tools when they fit.