I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over ten years of experience in my field. The first degree I received was a BA in Psychology from the University of Colorado at Denver in 2010. I continued my education and received a MA in Marriage and Family Therapy from Regis University in 2015. I am currently attending Northcentral University to attain a Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, specializing in Children and Adolescents, and expected to graduate in 2024. I also received two post-graduate certificates, one in Counseling Children and Adolescents, which qualifies me to become a Registered Play Therapist (RPT), and the other in Depth Psychotherapy, which focuses on issues of meaning, values, and a just existence from a community and cultural perspective.

I have post-graduate experience serving children, adolescents, families, individuals, groups, and couples. I started with an internship at a middle school and non-profit setting serving low-income individuals by providing individual, group, family, and couples therapy. I then worked in a juvenile correction setting as a Youth Corrections Social Worker, providing individual, group, and multi-family group therapy. I have experience in a community mental health setting, providing play therapy to elementary-aged children; as well as training in Multisystemic Therapy (MST), with a substance use adaptation, an evidence-based treatment for adolescents who meet the criteria for substance use disorder and who also have behavioral problems. I provided in-home therapy to this population that focused on the individual, family, and caregiver sessions implementing structure and rules in the home to support parents with enforcing rules, rewards, and consequences. I also worked in an intensive outpatient and inpatient setting in a mental health hospital, providing evidenced-based group therapy implementing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Mindfulness groups with patients. Furthermore, I have education, training, and experience in treating addictions.

The combination of my education and experience allows me to take a highly personalized, evidence-based approach to help my clients achieve powerful, lifelong changes.