Experience

My services are exclusively online now and in the future. I’ve been offering online therapy through my private practice since March, 2020. I love connecting with people in their own environment and find it often makes therapy more accessible. You can connect with me in the comfort of your own home or even during a lunch break in your vehicle or other private space.

Between 2017 and 2020, I worked with Kindergarten through 12th grade students with exceptional needs within the schools of Tehama and Glenn Counties, in rural northern California. As a social worker, I loved being able to meet with kids in their school environments and to work with their school teams and parents to improve behaviors and relationships at school and help students better access their education.

From 2014 to 2017 I worked within the Community Mental Health setting, serving primarily youth in foster care, children, teens, young adults and members of the LGBT*Q+ community. I also worked with people struggling with exceptional perceptual experiences such as visions and voices, complex trauma, depression and anxiety. I especially enjoyed the sense of community that our team developed within a dynamic intensive day program for transitional age youth.

I began my career in the field in 2012 when I went back to school at California State University, Chico for my Master’s degree in Social Work. During that time, I completed a field placement with Northern California Child Development, Inc., the local agency providing Head Start services. There I served as a liaison between the family and the preschool classroom and began providing counseling and in-home parenting interventions.

personalLY

I have been practicing therapy for the past 10 years. I feel very blessed to work in this field. I came to this work through my own healing process that began in late adolescence. I’ve lived in the rural northern California most of my life. Mindfulness, meditation and learning more effective communication and parenting techniques have been the ways I have dealt with my own challenges. I enjoy reading, especially historical fiction, hiking, kayaking and watching movies with family and friends in my spare time. Through all the adversity that 2020 brought, I’ve been fortifying my spiritual path and that of my family.

academic qualifications

I add “LCSW, PPS” behind my name because I have completed a clinical license to practice social work, a Master’s degree in Social Work and a Pupil Personnel Services credential in School Social Work. These are the academic programs and licensing processes I have completed:

Pupil Personnel Services Credential in School Social Work, 2019 – present, including 450 hours of supervised experience providing school social work services in the K – 12 school setting and additional post-graduate coursework.

  License in Clinical Social Work, #90756, 2019 – present, including 3,200 supervised hours of individual and group therapy as well as client-centered advocacy, passing an examination on law and ethics and one on clinical social work practice.

Master’s Degree in Social Work, California State University, Chico, 2015 – focus: Mental Health; received Mental Health Fellowship Award.