Master of Clinical Psychology, emph. Marriage and Family Therapy from Azusa Pacific University

Master of Divinity from Azusa Pacific University

Bachelors in Counseling from Marshall University

Training & Experience

In addition to completing my education, I have focused on helpings clients navigating challenges with depression and anxiety. These are the two areas which I have built experience treating, with now over seven years helping teenagers and adults with anxiety and depression learn how to thrive. Specifically, I focus on treating these difficulties from the lens of psychodynamic therapy and have developed that focus while working at Sync Counseling Center, a training institute for contemporary psychoanalysis, in Sierra Madre, CA.

What this means is that there is a special emphasis on helping clients discover the unconscious patterns of thought, relational engagement, and emotion that shape their experience of anxiety or depression. At the start of treatment, I may focus first on helping a client develop coping skills to manage their symptoms, but ultimately, I am interested in going deeper to help a client make conscious those patterns I mentioned above, and begin to choose new patterns that support a vibrant, relationally connected and unblocked life.