Clinical Approach

I believe everyone has the capacity for meaningful change—because if you want something to change, something’s gotta change! Even when change is uncomfy, messy, or not remotely part of the plan. This is where growth happens: when we are courageous enough to take risks, ask hard questions, and have the discipline to try a new way of being. My approach is warm, direct, genuine, and challenging. Growth requires facing our fears—just like building strength in our bodies requires breaking a sweat and challenging our muscles. Our brains and emotions need to do the same—to see how resilient we are, face our fears, and do the work to overcome our shadows.

You are the expert on your own life; my role is to help you understand your experiences, recognize patterns, strengthen relationships, and navigate life’s curveballs with greater confidence and self-compassion. I also love to teach! Give me an opportunity to share research, practice skills, and nerd out about how the brain and relationships work, and I’m in! Its not must my take on things - it what the data supports! Ultimately, I want to teach myself out of a job by giving you tools you can use long after therapy ends!

Today, I spend much of my time running Forge, leading the day-to-day operations, and supervising our badass team of therapists. Becoming a therapist requires several years of graduate education, clinical experience, and supervision—and helping clinicians grow through that process is one of the greatest passions of my career. My PhD is in Counselor Education and Supervision, which means I didn’t just study how to be a therapist; I studied how therapists learn, develop, and become effective supervisors and leaders. That training influences everything I do, from developing Forge’s programs to helping clinicians strengthen their work with couples and families, trauma, and military, veteran, first responder, and military communities. I am also approved by the Colorado State Board of Marriage and Family Therapist Examiners, housed within DORA, to supervise MFT candidates as a non-MFT supervisor—a very official title for work I genuinely love.

This work is personal to me, too.I am a military spouse with firsthand experience of SO family life, as well as a mother of two. I understand the unique operational tempo, uncertainty, repeated transitions, and pressure that service can place on individuals, marriages, and families someone who understands that relationships and family life can be meaningful, complicated, exhausting, and ALWAYS powered by humor and caffeine. I am a helper, builder, and doer, and I want the same sense of ownership and possibility for my clients and the clinicians I supervise. Let’s get messy, do the work, and grow together. These parts of my identity shape how I understand service, sacrifice, resilience, connection, and the importance of having a safe place to be fully human.

Because most of my time is devoted to leading Forge and developing our clinicians, I maintain a very small clinical caseload. If you are interested in working with me and my caseload is full, we would be happy to connect you with one of the talented clinicians I supervise regularly. You’ll receive care from a therapist thoughtfully matched to your needs—with additional consultation, support, and clinical brainpower working behind the scenes.