I strive to create a safe, accepting, non-judgmental environment where we can collaboratively explore and clarify your feelings as well as find more adaptive ways to cope and problem solve the issues in your life.  I believe that you can’t really understand someone’s present world without understanding their past experiences and how that is negatively or positively impacting their life now. While I work to provide you immediate symptom focused relief in therapy, I also work with you to understand how you got so stuck in the first place and how to prevent the same issues from arising again in the future.  In therapy I can help you break out of old patterns that are not serving you well anymore, improve coping alternatives and psychological flexibility while concurrently providing you concrete strategies for managing overwhelming feelings in the moment and the support and empathy you need to move forward.

I have been practicing psychology/therapy for the past 30 years since receiving my PhD in 1993 from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  I have experience in both hospital settings as well as a variety of outpatient settings and have also trained early career psychologists for well over 25 years.  I retired from my job of 22 years in a university counseling center last year in order to start my own private practice and better serve the clients with whom I work. I am a “true generalist” in every sense of the word and have experience and comfort in working with many different types of individuals, couples and issues.  Some of my areas of expertise are:

• Transitional aged youth ages 18-35,
• Relationship and Interpersonal issues
• Rape/Sexual assault
• Relationship Abuse
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Couples Therapy
• Sports Psychology/Performance Enhancement
• Processing Childhood Emotional and Physical Abuse.
• Life Transitions
• Parenting Issues

I am eager to join you on your journey towards happiness and fulfillment so please reach out for a free consultation and take the first step toward a better, improved and more powerful you.