About Me
I have been a licensed clinician for many years. My undergraduate degree is in music therapy with a psychology minor from Florida State University. I earned my Master’s degree in clinical psychology from the University of Central Florida, and completed additional coursework at Johns Hopkins University.
Here are a few things I’ve learned outside of the classroom: 1. Life is messy. 2. We are as stuck as our secrets (and everybody has some). 3. Few things are as black and white as we might like to believe. 4. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior (unless we make a conscious effort to change). 5. You are the expert on YOU.
My approach is client-centered and best conceptualized as working through an attachment/psychodynamic lens. That is to say, I believe we are all products of our environments. We consciously and unconsciously are drawn to the familiar, and repeat patterns throughout our lives. However, developing insight into and understanding of those patterns is not enough in and of itself. The work in therapy is to pull them out, examine them, and then make conscious decisions about how best to move forward.
Insight + action = CHANGE
