Being a Therapist found me later in life. My experiences in nursing school and working in the medical field helped me realize that I wanted to do more than heal people's bodies. I recognized that there was a connection between mental health and a person's desire to heal, or even live at times. When personal tragedy occurred in the form of losing my significant other in a motorcycle accident, it not only impacted me, but my family and our community. The challenges we faced encouraged me to go back to school so I could learn to help others dealing with similar challenges. I quickly learned there wasn't enough help or availability to mental health care, family support services, and direction that would assist families in healing from tragedies.

I graduated from Florida State University in 2013 with a Masters in Social Work (MSW) with a Clinical emphasis. I completed my clinical internships with the Veterans Health Administration in Gainesville, Florida and with DISC youth services in Tallahassee, Florida.

I attended Western Kentucky University for my Bachelors degree. I earned my Bachelors of Interdisciplinary Studies in 2011 with majors in Psychology, Sociology, and Consumer and Family Sciences.

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Tennessee with 14 years of professional work experience. I help clients with stress and anxiety, relationship issues, family conflict, grief, trauma and abuse as well as other issues that contribute to mental health challenges. Much of my training and work experience has been with trauma informed, mindfulness, attachment and emotion regulation models. I am CAIP certified which means I maintain yearly trainings for anxiety-based methods and modalities like Cognitive Processing, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Emotion Focused Individual Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy and others.

I also have specialized experience working with clients who are on the Autism Spectrum and am a trained Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA), Early Denver Systems Model (EDSM), social and play therapy and interpersonal connections therapist for this population.

I have worked with military and Veteran populations for ten years at the federal level, experience with LGBTQ clients and couples, have a muti-cultural background and expat experience, and work with many unique populations.