Clinical Focus
As a Denver based Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Addiction Counselor (LAC), I treat adults who are facing issues that are impacting one’s quality of life including depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, chronic pain/illness, and grief and loss. I also work with adults who are struggling to better understand their relationship with substances of abuse, as well as those who need treatment and support in any stage of their recovery process.
As a clinician for almost a decade at the Colorado Physician Health Program (CPHP), I worked with physicians, medical students, and physician assistants who presented for a variety of reasons including mental health, substance use, or burnout. As major changes continue within the healthcare system, physicians are now faced with additional pressures that impact the way they are able to deliver care. Trained to put their own needs last, physicians often struggle to ask for help. In my private practice, I offer medical professionals a compassionate space to address their problems.
My Approach
We are unique and dynamic individuals with a lifetime of layered experiences that define how we see ourselves and the world around us. Therapy offers the opportunity to examine these experiences so that we can better understand, and therefore change, the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are negatively affecting us.
There are many theoretical orientations and approaches to counseling. However, the single best predictor of a good outcome is a strong client/therapist relationship. I universally approach my clients with compassion, warmth, patience, and acceptance. I work from a humanistic foundation that is client-centered and borrows from a variety of approaches.