Executive Director / MHT

I am a client-centered, mindfulness-based, systemic, integrative, and holistic therapist. I focus on self-awareness and empowerment to inspire healing. My personal and professional experience relates to: anxiety, depression, social activism and allyship, complex trauma, PTSD, domestic violence, addiction and religious/spiritual trauma.

In my practice I utilize a strengths-based approach and empathetic communication to facilitate a corporative approach to therapy. I also incorporate both holistic and evidenced-based therapeutic practices like mindfulness, polyvagal theory, psychodynamic therapy (CBT), Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and integrative therapy into goals, plans and sessions with clients. A teamwork approach is used with clients on the creation of the treatment plans that support both immediate and long-term change.

As a youth, growing up in an oppressive religious environment paired with domestic violence, I experienced many consequences of the rigid beliefs that are maintained in those environments.  Early on, I began to understand how our mental health systems, religious institutions and justice systems, failed many others like myself. That failure can lead to the breakdown in the support and safety for so many. These experiences and interactions as a youth have fueled my desire to listen to and care for others with shared experiences while working to support system level change.

I received my Master’s of Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Wright State University in 2021 while working in a Juvenile Justice Center.  My work in the juvenile justice system led to the WiBN Woman of Impact Award in 2021. After becoming a therapist, my work expanded out into the community to a local domestic violence shelter as well as community trauma work through local police departments. Impacts made while in those positions granted me the opportunity of receiving The Mental Health and Recovery Board of Clark, Greene and Madison Counties’ Carol Wichman Award for outstanding contributions to mental health services in 2022. Serving in these various agencies highlighted, for me, the intersectionality with spirituality, trauma and systems level care. This further fueled my passion for disrupting these systems to encourage more healing and freedom for individuals that are living within these gaps.

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