I am a Licensed Independent Social Worker Supervisor (LISW-S) through the State of Ohio Counselor and Social Worker Board and an LCSW through the State of Arizona, and my work is truly my passion. With over 20 years of experience, I specialize in working with adults, children, and teens managing complex and developmental trauma, PTSD, traumatic grief, attachment challenges and relational trauma, relationship issues, depression and anxiety, and dissociative disorders. I also have much experience working with military and government personnel, first responders, crisis, and recent traumatic events. As an adoptee myself, I have a specialization in working with the adoption and foster care community, child and adult adoptees, and reparative/developmental attachment in both childhood and into adulthood.

I am a Level II EMDR Psychotherapist with Advanced and Master Class Training in Attachment and Somatic Psychotherapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), certified hypnotherapist with American Society of Clinical Hypnotherapy, and a Certified Trauma Practitioner, Deep Brain Reorienting Level 3 trained under Dr. Frank Corrigan, as well as being trained in TF-CBT, CISM, MI, and extensive training and education in IPNB (Interpersonal Neurobiology), ongoing consultation in Psychoanalysis, Coherence Therapy and Memory Reconsolidation, Brainspotting, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Body-based Psychotherapies, Flash Technique, Internal Family Systems, Structural Dissociation, and several other therapeutic modalities focusing on somatic psychotherapy and attachment. I am also fully trained in the Alexander Technique DBR Interweaves under the direct teaching and observation of their originator in the UK, psychotherapist Martin Warner. I receive ongoing consultation from psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Dr. Rich Chefetz, MD out of Washington D.C., as well as other mentors and experts in the field.

I use a collaborative, integrative approach with a strong emphasis on Interpersonal Neurobiology, Attachment Theory, and Affect Theory, to assist clients in helping them feel well supported and educated in their experience.

I present psychoeducation at many conferences and symposiums in the state of Ohio and other areas of the country, as well as support school districts and organizations in broadening education on trauma and traumatic grief. I also specialize in the supervision and consultation of other therapists and professionals in the community who are looking to grow their expertise in the areas of trauma and attachment. My practice truly is my passion, and partnering with my clients to find healing in their lives is my goal. I love my work.

I am the Clinical Director of Camp Lionheart, a free, week-long overnight summer camp for grieving children, here in Central Ohio in the Hocking Hills. Camp Lionheart is in it's 19th year of existence providing grief support, compassion, trauma-focused counseling, and lots of fun to children suffering the death of parent or sibling. For more information on Camp Lionheart, please visit www.camplionheart.org .

License Number, Ohio: I.0700086-SUPV

License Number, Arizona: LCSW-18835