Frequently Asked Questions

I listen. Not in a polite-nodding way, but in a tracking-every-thread, noticing-what-you-didn’t-say way.

I ask questions designed to get underneath the surface. I reflect things back in ways that sometimes make people say “huh, I never thought about it like that.” When something doesn’t add up or a story isn’t serving you, I’ll say so. Kindly, and with good eye contact.

Our work won’t always feel comfortable. Therapy rarely does when it’s working. But the goal is always to move through something, not just talk around it.

Sometimes the most useful thing is just being seen, heard, and understood without someone trying to fix you immediately. We’ll start there and go from there.

It all just depends on you. My toolkit includes Child Centered Play Therapy, CBT, Narrative, Existential, Positive, Solutions-based, Acceptance, Mindfulness, the Safe and Sound Protocol, vibroacoustic therapy, Interpersonal Neurobiology, and Polyvagal-informed work.

A few of those deserve a quick note. Vibroacoustic therapy uses low-frequency sound delivered through the body to help regulate the nervous system. It’s especially useful when talking alone isn’t quite reaching the places that need to shift. The Safe and Sound Protocol is an auditory intervention designed to help the nervous system move into a calmer, more connected state, which makes the harder work more accessible. Polyvagal theory is less a technique and more a map of how your nervous system responds to perceived threat, and understanding your own map can change how you relate to your own reactions.

None of this is thrown at you randomly. The approach follows what you bring in.

I hold a Master’s degree in counseling and am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida.

Beyond the clinical license, I’m a Certified Family Mediator, Supreme Court certified for the State of Florida. I hold certification in Child Centered Play Therapy and have specialized training in Autism, ADHD, Grief and Loss, PCIT, and PCRT. I’m also a former Certified Professional Dog Trainer, which is real, it’s on my resume, and it genuinely informs how I think about communication.

We’re getting to know each other. You share what brought you in. I ask questions. We figure out if this feels like a place you want to keep coming back to.

Sometimes. It depends on you. We often leave with ideas to think about, awareness activities, integrating a new practice or structure one simple step at a time, journaling.

That depends on what you’re working on. Some people come in for 8 to 12 sessions around a specific issue and leave with what they needed. Others stay longer because they’re working on deeper patterns or ongoing growth. There’s no required minimum and no mandatory contract.

We’ll check in regularly about how things are going and adjust from there. You’re the boss of your own therapy. I’m more like a very informed co-pilot.

Yes. With the legally required exceptions: imminent harm to yourself or others, abuse of a child or vulnerable adult, or a court order.

Even children deserve confidentiality. What your kids say and feel is confidential and will not be shared unless they give me permission or it is critical to their safety and care. I will share things that you can do to support what we have talked about and maybe the themes we play and keep it short and sweet.

Your secrets are safe with me. I have never once mentioned a client’s name in any context where it could be identified. Not to my family. Not at dinner parties. Not in my sleep. (Probably.)

Progress in therapy often doesn’t look like a dramatic reveal. It looks like reacting differently to the same situation that used to send you spinning. It looks like a conversation with your partner that doesn’t end the same way it always did. It looks like catching a thought before it catches you.

There’s no tidy moment where therapy declares itself finished. But most people know it’s working because things feel different in their actual life, not just in the room. We’ll pay attention to that together.