Dedicated to Helping You Thrive

I began my professional career in clinical psychology in 2013 providing in-home therapy and case management in the community. While I was working toward licensure I worked for a large, private practice with a diverse population of clients from children to adults. At that time, I was providing a supportive and validating therapeutic environment for my clients. What was lacking for me and my clients was a structured treatment to provide consultation and counseling to guide my clients to truly comprehensive change. It was by chance that I was invited to attend a Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Intensive Training seminar in 2015 with three other Atlanta-based therapists in Northampton, Massachusetts. In 2019, I attended further DBT training at the Portland DBT Institute in Portland, Oregon. Since that time I have honed my practice of this treatment and implemented it to assist my clients not only to tolerate, control, and manage uncomfortable emotions, but also to change the oftentimes problematic behavior that follows. It has been personally rewarding to watch my clients shift their perspective about themselves and the world around them. One of the aspects of this treatment that I learned unexpectedly was how much it would benefit and change my own life…for the better. I not only provide counseling, but consult with my clients about using DBT.  I use it myself everyday. I guess you could say, “I walk the walk AND talk the talk."

For more detailed information about DBT, please review the “What is DBT?”