I am studying at the University of North Texas to become a licensed clinical mental health counselor. When I am licensed, you'll find my practice to be a nurturing environment that respects your individual journey. Together, you and I incorporate client-centered expressive arts to tailor our time together for your growth and healing.

My hope is to work with young adults transitioning out of foster care. I expect to finish my coursework and take the national exam December 2026. My experience teaching literature, writing, and creative writing classes at the University of North Texas from 2003 to 2018 now serves as a great resource for my future clients. In addition to teaching, I conducted journaling workshops as a certified instructor through Dr. Kathleen Adams’s Center for Journal Therapy program. Throughout my teaching, student well-being and growth were bedrock values. I have a patient yet engaging style with effective, reflective listening and adaptability to presenting needs.

   Writing the university’s first creative nonfiction dissertation, a memoir, initiated my interest in writing and healing. While art is strong enough to hold the human heart and its human experiences, my interest is not in the artistic product but in the therapeutic experience of discovery and agency writing can offer. As a counselor with a deep background in arts creativity, my goal is to provide a stable, safe therapeutic space where clients can choose to explore life experience that they want to know more about through guided journaling activities that can supplement and enrich psychological growth