"I hold many roles: mother, daughter, sister, friend, business owner, program manager, therapist, and social worker."

My passion for teaching and supporting others to be the best version of themselves came from growing up teaching martial arts in my family business. I wasn't your traditional student and got my GED after my 10th grade year. This lead to truly living my 20's in the service industry working every position in a restaurant and bar while trying to go to school. In my 30's I owned a cleaning company, navigated motherhood, and went back to school. This is where my years of service and passion to support and empower others coalesced into my current life path.

I did not take a direct path to becoming a clinician. This means that I can not only offer advanced clinical training but expansive life experience. I am in my 14th year of sobriety and I hold many roles: mother, daughter, sister, friend, business owner, program manager, and social worker. I have spent the last 8 years working to support children and families from the individual to community level. I have worked as a behavioral management specialist in my undergrad, to a behavior redirector for APS during my masters program, then on to a being lead social worker in a behavioral program for Rio Rancho Public Schools. It is through this training and experience that I specialized in severe behavioral issues and trauma in children and families.

As I progressed through my therapeutic career and began working with adults and found that I gravitated to people that had experienced severe trauma, suicidality, substance abuse, and personality disorders. I continued to serve this population by getting experience in the correctional setting. I found that my adult clients were just the behavior kids that grew up without the tools and support I specialize in providing.

I was so fortunate to be trained and supported by the research out of the Arizona Trauma Institute and now have the capacity to work adults through their complex trauma. For as long as I can remember I always wanted to understand:

Why do we behave and feel the way we do?

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Why can we sometimes hold it together, and other times completely fall apart?

The good news is I found my answers and I can help you find your path to balance and maybe help find answers to your questions.