Client Forms 

These forms will be completed and submitted through an electronic health record system, but some clients have found it helpful to know in advance what kind of information will be requested.

Informed Consent Form

Notice of Privacy Policy

Intake Form

Client Portal

Counseling Services

Sometimes, in our lives, we get stuck. Doing the same things over and over again that just aren't working. You are ready for something different. You are yearning for something more.

Counseling can be scary, but it is really just a journey toward where you want to go, even if you aren’t sure exactly where that is. It's an investment in YOU because you are WORTH IT. 

In my counseling practice, I have an eclectic approach, pulling from the humanistic, behavioral, cognitive, and narrative approaches to counseling. I firmly believe in the power of connection and trust between therapist and client. I am a trauma-informed therapist who always strives to counsel through a lens of humanity and compassion.

I have 18+ years of experience working with men, women, couples, and young adults. My specialty, however, is working with women. Specifically, I am passionate about working on anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, boundaries, self-concept, core wounds, and helping individuals to find new pathways forward when they feel stuck. I am trained in Brainspotting, and many clients find this modality especially helpful in healing trauma and uprooting deeply embedded core wounds/beliefs about themselves and the world that they were never meant to carry. Once these wounds are addressed, clients are more fully able to engage in relationships with themselves and others. Additionally, I am honored to work with individuals who find themselves in difficult and/or confusing relationships (marriage, partnership, friendships, family relationships). This is a vulnerable place to invite a therapist into, and I am honored to help you understand your roles in the relationship dynamics and chart a path forward. I also enjoy integrating the Internal Family Systems approach to counseling, in an attempt to understand ourselves better and to foster self compassion as a bedrock for personal growth.

In West Michigan, specifically, it can be difficult to find a safe place to process matters of faith, and especially pain from religious institutions and systems. I have extensive background in faith practice and spirituality, and am walking my own faith journey, so I understand the courage it takes to engage with these topics. I love working with clients who are navigating their own questions of faith and practice, and am honored to work with those who have experienced pain within religious institutions.

FAQs

  • How brave it is to schedule that first session, and even more so to show up and walk into an office and meet a person you have never met before (me), and share vulnerable parts of your story.

    Our session starts with my deep respect for the courage it took for you just to get to that moment. I will have read your intake paperwork before our first session, so I will have whatever you shared in your paperwork in mind as I warmly welcome you, offer you some tea or coffee, and then settle in. The question I usually ask for the first session is: "What is happening in your life that you decided to schedule this first session?" That usually opens up both where you are, and begins to show me where you have been.

    There are two goals for a first session:
    1) You leave with more hope than you came in with, and
    2) you feel safe and accepted just as you are.

  • Trust and emotional safety are the primary factors in determining the effectiveness of the therapeutic experience. As such, your confidentiality is guaranteed and highly valued. I cannot discuss any part of our sessions or your identity with anyone, ever, without your signed consent to do so. I am bound to this legally and ethically. I recognize the incredibly raw and vulnerable aspects of therapy, and I deeply honor your humanity and the courage it takes to engage in a therapeutic process. From that place of shared humanity, confidentiality is deeply valued and guaranteed.

  • I offer both traditional 50-minute sessions, as well as longer, more intensive two-hour sessions. Some people prefer to get their story out in one session, starting off with a longer two-hour intensive session. Others prefer the traditional route of 50-minute sessions. A number of my clients appreciate how much deeper we can go in two hours, and schedule intensive sessions every other week or every few weeks instead of weekly 50-minute sessions. I am willing to work with your needs and set a schedule that works best for you.

  • My fee per session hour is $150.