I am a Licensed Marriage and Family therapist based in Plymouth. I specialize in working with individuals, couples and families in my private practice located in my home office, located at 13030 12th Avenue North in Plymouth, or through a HIPAA friendly on line therapy option called Doxy.me.
I received my Masters degree in Marriage and Family therapy in the Bay Area in 1998 and moved back to the twin cities area in 1999. Throughout my internship I worked in play-therapy with children and adolescents, and couples, families and individuals. Soon after moving back to Minneapolis from the bay area, I worked for two years at Family and Children’s Therapy clinic in Minneapolis, a clinic specializing in GLBTQ+ challenges. At Family and Children’s I specialized in guiding adults, families and children with attachment, family system challenges and emotional traumas. I also led a men’s court ordered anger management course.
After obtaining my MFT license in Minnesota in May 2002, I began private practice first in St. Louis Park. In early 2009, then moved my office to an uptown Minneapolis location and in late 2017 moved again to my current location in Plymouth.
I have received numerous trainings from 1996 to the present in the area of mindfulness and body-centered psychotherapy. I specialize in working with adults with anxiety, depression and complex or developmental traumas.
I am also experienced in working with highly sensitive individuals. My trainings include Sharon Stanley’s Somatic Transformation (similar to Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing), The Psychomotor Trauma Training (the Psychomotor Institute as founded by Pat Ogden) and Hakomi (founded by Ron Kurtz), and Steven Porges Polyvagal theories. In addition to these trainings, I have taken numerous extended workshops, all of which focus on emotional challenges complex trauma in adults.
I led annual couples’ and women’s weekend retreats from 2002 to 2015, and from 2005 to 2017 I led 4 hour Couples Intensive workshops.
I am an ongoing student of the work of Carl Jung, Marian Woodman, and dream work since well before the 1980s.
Prior to 1996, I worked and trained in body-work and energy-work.
I have over 23 years experience helping people navigate through life challenges such as losses, divorce, career and confidence blocks, and relationship building or relationship releasing.
Living and loving well is rewarding and challenging. We all need help at times to focus, and integrate life changes and calm and ground our nervous and emotional systems so that we can bring integration, awareness, curiosity and intention, allowing us to make conscious changes in our life including in the way we connect with and relate to ourselves and others.