Is your relationship navigating the complex challenges of chronic illness, neurodifferences, or trauma? Are you seeking someone to help you navigate these challenges with more confidence, resilience, and connection? Reaching out for help when we are struggling in our relationship is really difficult.

Maybe you have been trying to manage it on your own for a while, but things don’t seem to be changing. Perhaps you have tried couples therapy before and felt the therapist didn’t understand the complexity of your situation. It seems like you’re stuck in the same loop of conflict and misunderstanding. You’re feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, and wonder if things will ever change. 

Welcome to my online couples therapy practice, I am glad you found your way here. I am here to tell you that no matter what you are struggling with in your relationship right now – it CAN change and get better.

Together, we can create a collaborative plan to help you navigate your complex challenges as a team and create a more resilient and collaborative relationship. Therefore, not only will we design a plan to help you relieve your current distress; we will create a roadmap that increases your relational resilience and fosters long-term relationship healing and growth.

While I formally have a Masters in Counseling, I like to joke that life granted me an honorary doctorate in resilience. You see, I have been humbled by life quite a bit, and have had to navigate many challenges which deepened my sense of empathy and compassion.

In my life I have been through major stress, illness, trauma, and loss myself. Also, my husband and I are both late-diagnosed ADHDers and have been riding a rollercoaster of lived experience together since 2012. So, I understand how the complexity of neurodifferences, stress, and circumstance can influence our relationship with ourselves and our partner. And in a way, my experiences have given me a gift – for I can deeply connect and relate to others and their challenges.

They say in school you learn a lesson to pass a test, and in life, you are given a test to learn a lesson. Well, I certainly have been given a lot of tests and learned a lot of lessons over my life. And one thing I know for sure is that change, healing, and growth in your relationship is possible. It happened for me and my relationship, and it’s possible for you too. You can create the life and relationship you desire in spite of your past or your current circumstances if you both are willing to embrace the process and do the necessary inner and outer work to get there.

“It’s one thing to fight well, and something else altogether to love well.”

– Dr. Stan Tatkin

How would I describe my style as a counselor and therapist? Client-centered, collaborative, accepting + non-judgmental, integrative, compassionate, active + educational, with a touch of tough love and a dash of levity, for I believe humor can be healing. I am also neurodiversity affirming, LGBTQIA+ inclusive, and sex-positive, and my work is rooted through a trauma-informed and relationship science lens. 

I specialize in supporting couples to enrich and repair their relationship while navigating complex challenges like illness, neurodivergence, family of origin issues, and trauma. Combining research-informed practices with revolutionary brain and relationship science, I work from an integrative “head & heart” approach that incorporates mind, body, and spirit to help you increase resilience, release emotional baggage, and ignite healing and connection. Hence, Head & Heart Integrative Psychotherapy. I believe that only by working from an integrative perspective can we truly experience deep healing and lasting change. 

“Our partners don’t always have to think like we think. That’s what makes life interesting—it would be boring to be married to yourself. In fact, that’s called being single.”

– Dr. John Gottman

I also believe that we all have an innate ability to help ourselves heal and to heal our relationships. But sometimes life gets really difficult, and we need some support to strengthen that self-healing muscle. And building muscles takes practice and exercise. Therefore, sometimes I assign my clients “homework” to generalize their experience in therapy to their daily lives – where the real change and muscle growth happens! 

Science shows us that relationships are one of the most powerful tools for igniting healing and cultivating resilience. And as a person-centered therapist, my focus in my therapeutic relationship is to provide a safe, compassionate, and nurturing space for fostering empowered change in my clients and their relationships.

My practice of psychotherapy and counseling is research and trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming, and rooted in the realities of lived experience. I integrate the best in relationship science, attachment theory, and neurobiology, with the leading models of couples therapy (PsychoBiological Approach to Couples Therapy aka PACT, Developmental Model of Couples Therapy, Gottman Couples Therapy, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, and Relational Life Therapy) to help couples co-create a secure, collaborative, fair, connected, and resilient relationship. 

I am a licensed Psychotherapist and Relationship Counselor, and have been practicing since 2015. I have a Masters in Counseling from St. Edwards University with a focus in Marriage and Family Therapy, which means that I trained in Family Systems and am very relational in my work. So, when I work with clients I often explore the relational experiences and influences in their life. As a practitioner of attachment theory, I believe this is essential in our work together. For research has shown that much of our relational experiences as an adult can be tied to our experiences in childhood. But good news is – research also shows us we can re-wire these patterns and create positive relationship attachments, even if we never had that before. And that is exactly what a great therapeutic relationship and space can provide.

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Supervisor in Texas (License #: 202879) and licensed to practice telehealth in the State of Florida (Provider#: TPMF658). In addition to my degree, I am a lifelong learner and am actively engaged in research-informed professional development.

I have received training in Systemic Therapy, PACT Couples Therapy (Level 1 & 2 Trained), Developmental Model of Couples Therapy, Relational Life Therapy, Gottman Couples Therapy (Level 1 & 2 Trained), Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, EMDR, Natural Processing, Trauma-Informed approaches, Mindfulness, Somatic Therapy, NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), Coherence Therapy, and Interpersonal Neurobiology. 

I provide online couples therapy to clients who are physically located in the States of Texas and Florida, where I am licensed. All sessions are conducted via a secure telehealth video platform. Some of the benefits of telehealth is that it gives me the opportunity to see couples in their natural environment with their everyday challenges, and gives couples the opportunity to be in the comfort of their own home.

I meet with my online couples therapy clients on a weekly or biweekly basis and reserve a specific weekly time slot for them. The reason for this is that the more consistent the therapy, the more effective the results. These sessions range from 50-90 mins depending on the couple’s goals, needs, and therapist availability. I generally see most couples biweekly for 75-90 minute sessions, as this extended time allows us to dive deeper into shifting patterns, practicing new relational skills, and integrating change. Once we both feel you have made sufficient progress we may move to monthly maintenance sessions if needed. I am not a therapist who will try to keep you around longer than you need me. You can expect regular check-ins about progress so we can together assess and adjust to get you to your goals. 

During our intake and first few sessions we will get clear on what you want to work on together, and we will begin to design a road map as to how to help your relationship get there. This will be a “living” road map we design collaboratively, and we will adjust it as necessary.

In session you can expect a safe space where you can bring your current concerns and past hurts and express them without judgment. You can expect an empathetic and compassionate ear combined with actionable tools and strategies for empowering you towards growth, healing, and connection.

• Stress + Stressful Life Transitions
• Chronic Illness + Pain
• Trauma + PTSD
• Complex PTSD, Attachment + Relational Trauma
• Neurodivergent or Neurodiverse Relationships (ADHD, Autism, OCD, etc)
• Non-traditional Relationships, Ethical Non-Monogamy 
• LGBTQIA + Relationships
• Intimacy Challenges
• Affair Recovery
• Betrayal Recovery
• Relationship Challenges
• Discernment Counseling
• Premarital Counseling
• Couples Therapy Intensives

• Tuesday – Thursday 9:30 AM – 5 PM, CST
• All sessions are held during the hours above and are all conducted virtually via teletherapy