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, LMHCA
Founder of Seeds of Sage Counseling
I didn't know how lucky I was when I found my therapist at age 16. Like any good therapist, she met me with compassion and understanding, taught me coping strategies, and helped me celebrate my wins. One of the things that has stood out across the years as other therapists touched my life, was the way that she challenged me. To show up different. To be real, vulnerable, and authentic.
Becoming a therapist was the only thing that made sense. I wanted to help people in the same way I had been. I continue to use my experience with her as a source of inspiration as I work with clients to understand their stories, heal old wounds and patterns, and find contentment in themselves and the world around them.
Credentials & Education:
MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
LMHCA in WA State
BA in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on the psychology of health and healing, peace and conflict studies, and environmental studies.
WAMHCA Member
EMDRIA Member
Trained in EMDR
With continuing education on EMDR intensives, and using EMDR and ERP to treat OCD and specific phobias.
An Integrative and Holistic Approach
We come to therapy to feel better. While diving into our stories and experiences in traditional talk therapy helps us understand our patterns and identify ways we can effectively support ourselves and manage triggers, it does not fix anything.
The clients I see often end up in my office after years of therapy feeling frustrated with the therapeutic process and skeptical about any possibility of lasting or meaningful change in their lives. Still seeking relief, they come to me and share their story yet again, but this time, instead of getting caught up in the week to week happenings and using clinical time as a vent session, they focus on the hard stuff that led them to where they are now and work hard in session engaging in EMDR therapy to directly confront negative beliefs and memories that are keeping them stuck in old and destructive patterns.
Outside of session, you get to try on new ways of being with ERP and using strategies from the multitude of other approaches that I teach and integrate into our work. This allows you to expand your comfort zone, challenge old limiting beliefs, and your capacity to experience life fully. Throughout the process, nature becomes a source of metaphor, comfort, and solace as you embark on the human journey it is to heal.