My clients often struggle with:

➡ Trouble maintaining personal, professional, or social relationships

➡ Finding meaningful connection in their relationships

➡ Overwhelming feelings of stress or emotional numbness

➡ Keeping it together on the outside, but feeling exhausted on the inside

➡ Struggling to find a healthy balance or routine in life

➡ A sense of losing control in their life circumstances

➡ Using substances to cope with frustrations and disappointments

➡ Feeling confused by their relationship challenges

I offer in person therapy for adults and online therapy for adults across Florida. I work with clients navigating relationship challenges, anxiety, perfectionism, lack of connection, conflict in relationships, and feeling stuck in problems. Therapy with me is designed for people who want direct, honest feedback with practical guidance on how to move forward with their most difficult relationship issues.

I only work with adults who are located in the state of Florida at the time of service.

Yes I am! I will see both Christian and non-Christian clients. Our sessions can involve faith as little or as much as the client wants throughout working together toward treatment goals.

There are many benefits to counseling and each client usually has their own agenda of what they want from counseling. Clients typically find that counselors can be a tremendous asset to increasing personal growth, improving interpersonal relationships, family concerns, relationship troubles, and the daily hassles of life.

Clients usually seek counseling for encouragement, problem-solving skills, support, and healthy coping strategies while struggling with things like anxiety, depression, grief, relationship troubles, addiction, unresolved childhood issues, and stress management. 

Clients often get a fresh perspective on difficult problems they’ve tried to solve on their own.

Some of the benefits available from counseling include:

Learning new ways to cope with stress and anxiety

​Better understanding yourself and your goals and values

Improving your self-esteem 

​Boosting self-confidence

​Discovering new ways to solve problems

​Developing skills for improving communication and listening

​Transforming anger, grief, depression, and other emotional pressures

Dissolving old behavior patterns and developing new ones

Unfortunately, this is not possible to say in a general FAQ page. I've worked with people for a couple months and others for 3 years. In our first session, we will discuss how often we should meet. That frequency will change over time. In the beginning of our work, I recommend weekly sessions. To get the most out of your therapy and make lasting changes, I strongly recommend we meet weekly for a minimum of 6 months.

If you'd like to meet more often than once a week, we can also arrange that. We will review your treatment plan and progress periodically. Once you've begun to experience gains in your treatment goals, we will review your plan and meet less frequently. This allows for more practice time of your new skills between sessions.

If you are concerned about your relationship we would initially work with both of you together. After this work, if one of you would like to continue in individual sessions, she could work with only one of you. It is not helpful to move from individual into couple’s work with the same therapist because of potential trust issues. These instances are referred out to another therapist.

However, individual sessions are often done as part of couples counseling to address the issues discovered in couples sessions when needed. These are different than receiving psychotherapy with a therapist for individual mental health treatment.

My clients would tell you that I'm honest, direct, personable, and down to earth. I'm going to remember your kids' names, that exciting thing you shared 3 sessions ago, and where you're headed on vacation because you aren't just a number to me.

I'm most likely going to show up in jeans with a graphic t-shirt on. I was born and raised in Central Florida, so I'm pretty laid back. A lot of my clients love that - if that's not cool with you then we won't likely be a good fit.

I do not accept insurance, but I will provide a superbill to you if you'd like to pursue reimbursement from your insurance company. You'll need to contact them directly for details and requirements for that.

There are several reasons I chose not to contract with insurance companies:

➡ If we submit claims to insurance companies, they require me to provide a diagnosis. In my experience, this is overused and unnecessary when it comes to relationship counseling.

➡ Insurance companies have rules about reimbursement that are not always fair or favorable to the client.

➡ I value privacy and not accepting insurance ensures I can offer that.

➡ Insurance companies put a limit on services between therapists and clients. I believe your treatment should be up to you.

➡ Insurance offers incredibly low rates to therapists given our education and time invested to become licensed. No one likes being underpaid and undervalued.

If you need a referral to a clinician who accepts insurance, please contact the member phone number with your insurance company for a list of available providers.

Debit card, credit card, HSA/FSA cards. I use a payment processor called IvyPay which stores your card information on file. The card on file will be charged the morning of your appointment and payment failures will need to be corrected in session. Payments are collected same day as service.

Yes, that is no problem at all. You will need to complete an authorization to have a third party pay for your therapy services. Just let me know if that's how you plan on paying and we'll get you squared away.

Our first session will be 85 minutes long. During this session I will gather an extensive history on you and your relationship. We will then establish treatment goals and answer any questions you have. Sometimes the history questions do bleed over to a couple of sessions and that's okay too.

I offer a range of appointment times and styles depending on the client's needs. Options include 55 minute sessions, 85 minute sessions, half day intensive therapy sessions, whole day intensive therapy sessions, and even weekend couples retreats.

Yes we can! I offer text based therapy services in a HIPPA compliant client platform, phone calls, and unscheduled sessions when available. I purposely maintain a very small caseload so that I can offer these premium options to clients as needed.

If our communication takes more than 10 minutes, you will be billed for the time in increments of 15 minutes which is currently $40.00.

You're welcome to call the office number at any time - day or night 24/7. During office hours, I will answer if I can or you can leave a voicemail and I will respond as soon as I can - even on the weekends or in the evenings.

If our communication takes more than 10 minutes, you will be billed for the time in increments of 15 minutes which is currently $40.00.

If you have a crisis or emergency, please call 911 or 211.

If you're a current client, you're welcome to send a text any time 24/7. Don't worry about interrupting me or waking me up at night. Same with phone calls - I will respond as soon as I can - even on the weekends or in the evenings. If you have a crisis or emergency, please call 911 or 211.

If our communication takes more than 10 minutes, you will be billed for the time in increments of 15 minutes which is currently $40.00.

You’ll receive an invitation to secure texting after our first session.

For the most part, the only thing going to keep me from answering my clients within any given 6 hour time span is if I'm sleeping. If I'm having personal time with my family after hours, I'm not going to answer right away. My during business hours, I'm going to answer as soon as I can. Please know that if I am with clients I will not respond immediately as the client in session has my full attention (as will you when we are in session).

I have 2 offices located in Tampa, FL and 1 in Winter Haven, FL. We can also meet virtually online anywhere in the State of Florida. Due to license restrictions, I am not able to offer services to anyone who is not located in Florida.

If you are an out-of-state resident interested in services, I can offer counseling services for you but only while you are located in Florida.