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“I am passionate about supporting the truth as spoken from the perspective of the children we work with. Often times they have much more information and insight than we adults realize. It is important to me that we both maintain their safety and their voice to play a major role in their wellness.”

DETAILS

• Specialty: Family Systems, DBT, Trauma-Informed, Relational, Strength-based, LGBTQIA+, and EDI
• Education: MA in Marriage and Family Therapy, St. Mary’s University of Minnesota
• With Northwest Passage since 2014

I draw upon a variety of philosophies and approaches to inform my practice.

The client is the expert on self, and the family system is the expert on their family. My top priority is to consistently center client voices throughout their treatment process. The story of each individual and family is impacted by social location, or the intersectionality of race, class, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, culture, and religion. Healing begins when we create space for the entire story as meaning is made by each individual within a family system, and ultimately held and understood by all members.

15 years of youth work with adolescents in the Twin Cities Metro Area informs my practice as a Marriage and Family therapist. From this experience, I bring knowledge of healing circles (Phil Gatensby), strength-based “Sparks” (Peter Benson), and a passion for Equity, Diversion, and Inclusion.

Therapeutic approach is trauma-informed (with emphasis on Somatic and IFS), relational, and draws from Symbolic-experiential family therapy (Carl Whitaker), and Structural Family Therapy (Salvador Minuchin). Other approaches include DBT, CBT, and TF-CBT.