Helping Lives and Relationships to Thrive

My focus is to help clients to heal, grow and become aware of their inner strengths and resources. We work together to compassionately listen to your story and explore what kinds of care and healing you are longing for in your self and relationships. Collaboratively, we chart a path forward that honors your needs and goals. I provide a warm and safe space, listening to your concerns, and customizing a treatment plan that helps you cultivate the healing and wholeness you are longing to experience in your life and relationships.  

  Some of the areas I help people navigate include, but are not limited to the following areas of struggle: 

Individuals navigating life transitions, recovery from childhood abuse, sexual assault, trauma, complicated grief, depression, anxiety, bipolar, and personality disorders. 

Couples struggling with communication, conflict, lack of emotional connection, intimacy, sex, relational betrayals (infidelity), divorce, parenting issue, premarital counseling, parenting intellectually gifted children. 

Families struggling with relational losses, trauma, adult parent and adult child relationships, divorce, medical illness, relocation, and loss of a child, sibling or parent.  

I provide therapy where you can explore what feels most meaningful to you. We utilize your unique strengths and resources in our work together as well as developing new strengths, skills and tools. For clients who find the Christian faith to be a resource, I am delighted to integrate your faith into our therapeutic conversations. For clients who find support from other systems of meaning, I am happy to meet you in those places and draw upon those resources. For clients who find meaning in other ways of engaging existential concerns, I rejoice in exploring and supporting your ways of understanding the world.  

I am also committed to honoring client's racial, cultural, religious, sexual and gender identity.  I believe in offering high quality, skilled compassionate psychotherapy in which everyone can feel safe and honored in for all their sides of self and in their wholeness. 

Welcome! I look forward to meeting you! 

I began my graduate training in 2000 at Princeton Theological Seminary where I earned my Masters of Divinity and became an ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church. During my time at Princeton, my passion for providing counseling to individuals, couples and families grew deeply.  In 2004, I followed my passion and attended the graduate school at Northwestern University, The Family Institute, and earned my Masters of Science in Individual, Marriage and Family Therapy. 

I am a licensed therapist who has been in practice for over 19 years. I also have additional specializations in working with long term trauma, sexual assault, complicated grief, and couples therapy utilizing integrative therapy and drawing heavily on Emotion Focused Therapy. 

I have a warm and authentic presence and a collaborative approach. I honor the wisdom, strengths and self awareness of my clients and offer my expertise and skill to help you heal and thrive in your life and your relationships.

Credentials

M.S.M.F.T. - The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

M.Div. - Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ

LMFT - Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in Illinois

Ordained Pastor - Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

Specialized Training Relational Trauma Treatment 

(September 2013-Present)

Professional Memberships

Board of Directors - Illinois Affiliation of Marriage and Family Therapists (IAMFT)

Clinical Membership in Illinois Affiliation of Marriage and Family Therapist (IAMFT)

Clinical Membership in American Association of Marital and Family Therapists (AAMFT)

Clinical Membership in International Center for Excellence in Emotion Focused Therapy (ICEEFT)

Clinical Membershin in Chicago Center for Emotion Focused Therapy 

(CCEFT)

Ordained Member of The Presbytery of Chicago (PCUSA)

Clinical Member - Womencare Advanced Trauma Consultation Group