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.

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Through 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, person-centered therapy (i.e., motivational interviewing), cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, narrative therapy, sand tray, somatic bodywork (i.e., yogic breathing, body scanning, bottom-up emotional processing, and mindfulness meditation), Jungian psychoanalysis, and internal family systems.  Additionally, I work hard to ensure that my therapeutic approaches are trauma-informed and multi-culturally aware of minorities and their respective social justice concerns.

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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.  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, addiction, neurodivergence, bipolar 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. 

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My biggest strengths are good communication, time integrity, and being thorough and correct in my work.  At TNCC, I developed multiple supervisory relationships, worked with a full caseload of clients, coordinated client care, attended weekly clinical staff meetings, and facilitated TNCC’s Jump Start to Healing online psycho-educational group.  I also supported my clients’ healing journeys and honed my clinical skills of providing informed consent, writing DAP notes, formulating treatment plans, and conducting biopsychosocial and clinical assessments.