I’m a mental health therapist.
I recently (August 2024) finished my PhD in Counseling Psychology. This means I am currently unlicensed. I will begin seeing clients in Wisconsin in September 2024 under supervision until I pass the licensing exam in 2025.
I will be working at Integrated Counseling, LLC and will be seeing clients by telehealth, or in-person in Madison, WI. There is the possibility for me to see clients in-person in Appleton, WI as well.
At this time, my client caseload will be limited to 3 to 5 individual clients as I will be working fulltime as an Assistant Professor at Lawrence University.
In the future, I may offer an after-abortion therapy group and assessments for assisted reproduction journeys.
My Approach to Therapy
I identify primarily as a narrative therapist. As a narrative therapist, I help my clients to understand the stories that have been told about them – both by themselves and by others including family, culture, and society – and how those stories may have been internalized. Taking a feminist and multicultural approach, I pay specific attention to the impact of dominant sociocultural narratives such as racism, sexism, cissexism, and so on. Often, my clients feel stuck in just one story, such as, “I’m just an anxious person.” Through our work, I support my clients in developing different relationships with this story and connecting with other life narratives such as, “I feel most anxious when I’m public speaking, but even then, there have been times that I have managed that anxiety. I can learn from those successful experiences to manage anxiety when public speaking again in the future.” In addition to my narrative therapy approach, I also pull interventions from interpersonal process theory and motivational interviewing. My clients have described me as nonjudgmental, empathetic, expressive, transparent, perceptive, and humorous.
Areas of Competency
Abortion
Pregnancy loss/miscarriage/stillbirth
Termination for Medical Reasons
Pregnancy/Parenting
Childfree by choice
Assisted Reproductive Technology
Queer pregnancy/family-building
Anxiety
Panic
Obsessions & compulsions
Trauma, particularly sexual or intimate partner violence
Phase of life adjustments and transitions (job loss, starting school, graduation, retirement, etc.)
Identity development and processing, particularly related to whiteness, masculinity, queer and trans identities, and faith transitions
Gender affirming care (including letters)
College and graduate students
High-achieving women and femmes
The impact of white supremacy culture, patriarchy, cissexism, racism, etc. on clients’ wellbeing
Clinical Training
Pre-Doctoral Internship (AKA residency for psychologists) | University of Utah Counseling Center (APA Accredited) | 2023 - 2024
Externship | University of Wisconsin-Madison Counseling Psychology Training Clinic | 2022 - 2023
Clinical Graduate Assistant (Supervisor) | University of Wisconsin-Madison Counseling Psychology Training Clinic | 2022 - 2023
Supervision Practicum | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2022
Clinical Interviewer (Research Study) | Center for Healthy Minds | 2021 - 2022
Advanced Practicum | Milwaukee VAMC Primary Care-Mental Health Integration | 2021 - 2022
Foundational Practicum | Edgewood College Personal Counseling Services | 2020 - 2021
First-Year Experience | University of Wisconsin-Madison Counseling Psychology Training Clinic | 2019 - 2020
Masters Internship | University of Wisconsin-Madison University Health Services | 2018 - 2019
Supervised Practicum | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2018