My Background

In November 2025, I earned my Master of Arts in Art Therapy and Counseling with a Psychedelic Studies certificate from Southwestern College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  In March 2026, I received my Colorado LPCC license.

 

Through my counseling position at Behavioral Health Group (BHG) and my art therapy internship at Tierra Nueva Counseling Center (TNCC), I developed my therapeutic repertoire to embrace theoretical approaches such as the expressive therapies continuum, counseling micro-skills (i.e., active listening and emotional attunement), person-centered therapy (i.e., motivational interviewing), cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, solution-focused therapy, narrative therapy, sand tray, somatic bodywork (i.e., yogic breathing, body scanning, bottom-up emotional processing, and mindfulness meditation), Jungian psychoanalysis, internal family systems, and psychoeducation.  Additionally, I work hard to ensure that my therapeutic approaches are trauma-informed, psychedelic medicine-informed, and multi-culturally aware of minorities and their respective social justice concerns.

 

Client populations that I have served range from children aged 10 and up to seniors, and I have also focused on working with members of the LGBTQIA+ community.  Caseloads that I have served range from 15 to 80 clients.  I have experience working both in-person and via Telehealth with those who have struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, gender dysphoria, severe addiction including opioid use disorder and poly-substance use disorder, neurodivergence, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, anorexia nervosa, and prolonged grief disorder.  In my work, I strive to facilitate clients’ engagement in art directives and help them to reveal their psyches’ archetypes and parts, reframe cognitive distortions, write new healthy narratives, and regulate their nervous systems. 

 

My biggest strengths are good communication, time integrity, and being thorough and correct in my work.  At BHG and TNCC, I developed multiple supervisory relationships, worked with a high caseload of clients, utilized EMR software (i.e., EMR Bear and SAMMS), attended weekly clinical staff meetings, facilitated TNCC’s Jump Start to Healing online psycho-educational group, and coordinated client care with case managers, case workers, medical providers, attorneys, and parole and probation officers.  I also supported my clients’ healing journeys by providing high-quality services such as advocating for clients’ financial access to care, providing clear informed consent, compassionately reviewing urinalysis drug screens, writing thorough DAP notes, formulating individualized treatment plans, and completing comprehensive intakes using biopsychosocial assessments and clinical reassessments (i.e., ASAM, BAI, BAM, C-SSRS, GAD-7, PCL-5, PHQ-9, and SNAP).