Working with children, teenagers, adults, and families has been my priority for the past decade in order to help them develop the skills they need to build healthy lives. My goal is to create a safe environment in which individuals feel comfortable expressing themselves openly and free of judgment. I believe in working as a team in order to help each person develop insight in themselves and their situation, while cultivating their strengths, and highlighting their resiliency. When needed, I involve parents, families, psychiatrists, and physicians in order to ensure collaboration to increase the client's support within treatment. I have worked with children, teenagers, adults and families on a variety of issues including depression, PTSD, ADHD, substance use, anxiety, suicide, sexuality and grief. I have helped survivors of trauma including sexual abuse, child abuse, domestic violence and emotional abuse. I am also an Approved Supervisor for those pursuing clinical licensure. I have experience working with individuals/families specifically involved in hospice care whom I helped develop coping skills to utilize in order to manage their loss and process their grief. I have a significant amount of experience working with youth who have engaged in sexually abusive and sexually reactive behaviors.
Qualifications: | University of Nevada-Las Vegas |
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Academic Suffixes: | MS, LMFT |
Expertise: | Addiction, ADHD, Adoption, Alcohol Use, Anger Management, Anxiety, Behavioral Issues, Bipolar Disorder, Cancer, Career Counseling, Child or Adolescent, Chronic Impulsivity, Codependency, Coping Skills, Depression, Developmental Disorders, Divorce, Domestic Abuse, Domestic Violence, Drug Abuse, Dual Diagnosis, Eating Disorders, Emotional Disturbance, Family Conflict, Gambling, Grief, Infidelity, Life Transitions, Marital and Premarital, Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD), Oppositional Defiance, Parenting, Peer Relationships, Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum, Relationship Issues, School Issues, Self Esteem, Self-Harming, Sexual Abuse, Other, Sleep or Insomnia, Stress, Substance Use, Suicidal Ideation, Teen Violence, Trauma and PTSD, Veterans, Women |