Specialty Areas
Relationships
​Improving relationship individually or as a couple
Relationships are often where our deepest strengths, vulnerabilities, and wounds show up.
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Whether you're navigating conflict with a partner, struggling with communication, recovering from betrayal, setting boundaries, dating, managing family relationships, or feeling disconnected from those you care about most, therapy can help you understand the patterns contributing to these challenges.
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I help individuals and couples move beyond surface-level conflict by exploring the deeper factors that impact relationships, including attachment styles, family dynamics, anxiety, trauma, emotional regulation, and communication patterns.
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My goal isn't simply to help you stop arguing. It's to help you better understand yourself, better understand the people you care about, and learn new ways of connecting that create healthier, more fulfilling relationships.
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Because healthy relationships start with understanding yourself.
Anxiety
Improving ways to manage worry, stress, fears.
Anxiety is more than worrying too much. It can show up as overthinking, perfectionism, irritability, difficulty relaxing, people-pleasing, trouble sleeping, constant planning, or feeling responsible for everyone else's needs and emotions.
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Many people struggling with anxiety feel stuck in patterns that once helped them cope but are now getting in the way of living the life they want. Together, we'll work to understand what's driving your anxiety, develop practical tools to manage it, and build confidence in your ability to handle life's challenges without feeling controlled by fear or uncertainty.
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Whether you've struggled with anxiety for years or have recently noticed it impacting your daily life, relationships, or work, therapy can help you better understand yourself and create meaningful change.
Trauma
Healing from difficult experiences that continue to impact your life today.
Trauma doesn't always look the way people expect it to.
Sometimes trauma comes from a single overwhelming event. Other times it develops through years of difficult experiences, chronic stress, unhealthy relationships, emotional neglect, loss, or growing up in environments where your needs weren't consistently met.
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Trauma can impact how you see yourself, how you trust others, how you handle conflict, and how safe you feel in relationships. It often influences the patterns we develop to protect ourselves—patterns that may have been necessary at one point but are no longer serving us.
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In therapy, we'll work to understand how your past experiences continue to impact your present, process difficult emotions safely, and build new ways of responding that align with the life and relationships you want today.
Farmers & Ranchers
Rural individuals & couples
As someone who grew up on a farm, I understand that rural life comes with unique strengths and challenges.
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Rural communities are often built on hard work, resilience, independence, and strong family values. While those qualities can be incredible sources of strength, they can also make it difficult to ask for help, prioritize your own needs, or talk openly about mental health struggles.
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Many individuals living in rural communities carry significant responsibilities related to farming, ranching, family businesses, caregiving, or community involvement. The stress, uncertainty, isolation, financial pressures, and generational expectations that often accompany rural life can take a toll on mental health and relationships.
You don't have to explain rural culture to me—I understand the long hours, the responsibility, the pressure to "just push through," and the reality that life doesn't stop when you're struggling.
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My goal is to provide a practical, down-to-earth approach to therapy that respects your values while helping you navigate anxiety, trauma, relationship challenges, life transitions, and the stressors unique to rural living.
Let's Get to the Root of What's Keeping You Stuck
Whether you're struggling with anxiety, trauma, relationship challenges, or simply feeling disconnected from the life you want to live, therapy can help you understand the patterns beneath the surface and create lasting change.
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Together, we'll work to build greater self-awareness, healthier relationships, and a life that feels more aligned with who you want to be.