My Approach
How I Work
It Starts With Relationship
My approach to therapy begins with relationship. Genuine connection matters.
I see therapy as a genuine connection and a place to understand your experiences, discover your strengths, build new skills, and try different ways of relating to yourself and other people.
I do not take a one-size-fits-all approach. Our work will be shaped around your personality, experiences, goals, life stage, circumstances, and the pace you are comfortable with. Your voice and needs stay at the center of the work.
I am trauma-informed, neurodivergent-affirming, and developmentally grounded. I draw from a variety of approaches depending on what fits each person.
Therapy is collaborative. If something is not working, we adjust together.
You are the expert on your own life.
Survival First, Then Growth
I believe therapy often begins with survival, finding safety, stability, and ways to cope, and can move toward healing, growth, stronger connections, and a life where you thrive.
Sessions move at your pace.
I Chose the Word Eclectic
I chose the word eclectic deliberately.
I do not believe every person who walks into therapy needs the same kind of therapy. Over the years, I have drawn from many different approaches, but eclectic also means being willing to adapt.
I have adapted things I learned doing play therapy with children to work with adults. I have used stories, metaphors, books, vision boards, humor, and sometimes something we come up with together because it makes sense for that particular person.
Sometimes therapy is about changing something. Sometimes it is about understanding why a pattern keeps repeating, making sense of where it came from, or figuring out how to live with something that cannot simply be fixed.
I am a constant learner, always looking for another way to understand something or another way to reach someone. I do not expect you to fit neatly into a treatment model. I would rather adapt what I have learned to fit the person sitting in front of me.
Approaches I Draw On
I draw from different approaches depending on what fits each person. No single model gets the whole story.
Trauma-Informed Care
We begin with safety, choice, and enough steadiness to do the work without forcing it.
Narrative Therapy
We look at the story you have been told about yourself and whether it is the whole story.
Play Therapy
For younger children, play is how the work gets said out loud.
Family Systems
A family systems lens helps us notice how relationships and patterns affect what is happening now.
Person-Centered
Your experience leads the session, and I bring curiosity rather than a preset formula.
Attachment-Based
Sometimes we pay attention to how early relationships still show up in trust, closeness, and conflict.
CBT
CBT can help us connect thoughts, feelings, and actions in a practical way.
DBT Skills
DBT skills offer concrete ways to handle intense emotions, distress, and hard conversations.
ACT
With ACT, we can make room for difficult thoughts while choosing actions that fit what matters to you.
IFS-Informed
IFS-informed work gives different parts of you room to speak without treating any part as the problem.
Mindfulness-Based
Mindfulness can slow a moment down enough to notice what your mind and body are doing.
Motivational Interviewing
When you feel pulled in two directions, we can get curious about what makes change worth considering.
Person-Centered and Attachment-Based
Person-Centered Therapy
I believe you are the expert on your own life, even when you do not have all the answers yet.
My job is not to sit across from you with a clipboard and tell you how to live it. I bring my experience, curiosity, and clinical perspective, while you bring something I can never have: your experience of being you.
The journey is yours, and I walk alongside you. We make room for the difficult and the hopeful, for seriousness and laughter, and work together to make sense of what you find along the way and where you want to go.
Attachment-Based Therapy
At our most basic, humans are a social species. We are made for connection.
Our relationships are where we learn, grow, love, belong, and sometimes where we are hurt.
We talk a lot about attachment in childhood, but our need for connection does not disappear when we grow up. The relationships we have had can shape what we expect from others and what happens when we feel close, vulnerable, rejected, or alone.
I see therapy as a real relationship, but also as a kind of practice relationship. It gives us a place to build trust, work through misunderstandings, repair when things go wrong, and sometimes experience a different way of being in relationship with another person.
What Therapy With Me Feels Like
Sometimes I will mostly listen. Sometimes I will challenge you, ask a question that makes you think, or help you notice a connection you had not seen. Sometimes there will be humor.
Therapy with me is a real relationship, but one outside your everyday life: we do not have to argue about the dishes.
I encourage you to tell me when something is not working. You can disagree with me, correct me, or even tell me off. Therapy can be a place to practice hard conversations and discover that a relationship can survive them.
I am warm, curious, sometimes unconventional, and very much human.
Goals and Progress
I see goals as a roadmap for therapy.
They give us direction while leaving room for detours and discoveries. Goals can shift as your needs shift. What matters is that they guide us toward what feels most worthwhile to you.
Progress is not always dramatic. Sometimes it looks like relief. Sometimes it is noticing a pattern sooner, having a different conversation, recovering more quickly after something difficult, or simply finding steadier footing.
Options Across Texas
Where We Meet
In-home therapy may be available in Killeen, Copperas Cove, Temple, and surrounding communities when it's a good fit. Therapy is also available virtually anywhere in Texas.