Meet Our Therapists

Psychology was the only class that felt urgent to me. I wasn't just interested in how people think. I wanted to understand how they survive, how they carry impossible things, and what it actually takes to help them set those things down. That curiosity never left.

My father served with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Desert Storm and was later diagnosed with PTSD. I watched him struggle for years, and I watched our family struggle alongside him while navigating a VA system that wasn't built for clarity or ease. I became his advocate because someone had to be.

That experience taught me more about what untreated trauma does to a person, and to the people who love them, than any textbook ever could. I come from a long line of people who serve, including both grandfathers, my uncles, and my father. When someone in uniform sits across from me, I'm not treating them as a clinical category. I understand the culture, the silence, and the reasons they've waited this long.

My grandmother was a nurse who went on numerous natural disaster deployments, and our family saw how much Hurricane Andrew affected her long after she came home. She was my hero growing up, and she showed me early on that the people who run toward disaster carry it with them afterward.

My work also extends to the families of first responders, because I believe in taking care of the whole family. As the child of a veteran, I understand firsthand that when one person serves, the entire family serves alongside them. I also help clients work through moral injury, the deep wound that comes when the job asks you to act against what you believe is right.

My own history with anxiety, including the pressure to perform, the replaying, and the exhaustion of looking fine on the outside, is part of why I work the way I do.

I'm also a cancer survivor. Navigating a serious diagnosis while continuing to show up for everyone else in your life teaches you things about vulnerability, fear, and the importance of having someone in your corner that you simply can't learn any other way. Today, I help others navigate life during and after a cancer diagnosis.

I bring all of that into the room, along with humor, honesty, and a genuine belief that people are more capable of change than they give themselves credit for.

I started out in a county jail forensic program serving Madison, Jefferson, and Taylor counties, where I worked with people in acute mental health crisis, including expectant mothers who were incarcerated. From there, I served as Clinical Director of a community mental health agency, where I trained and supervised more than 15 graduate and registered interns.

Along the way, I have worked in a Level 2 residential program serving adults in recovery from severe and persistent mental illness and as a clinician with the Department of Juvenile Justice. I have also provided services to children and families involved in the child welfare system, some of the most vulnerable populations in our communities. Each of those settings taught me how to meet people in the hardest moments of their lives and help them find a way forward.

Today, alongside my private practice, I work with first responder agencies across Florida, providing critical incident response, peer support consultation, and clinical care to firefighters, law enforcement, and EMS. I have also helped build more than 15 peer support teams throughout the state. I'm grateful to serve as a Clinician and Behavioral Health Navigator with the 2nd Alarm Project, a partnership that helps bring peer support and clinical care to first responders in communities across Florida.

I am also a co-author of Building Resilience in Rural Fire and EMS: Best Practices for First Responder Mental Wellness, published in the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Rural Mental Health. The study follows six fire rescue agencies in northwest Florida as they built mental wellness programs that fit their crews.