First, the dry stuff. I’m a licensed professional counselor in Arizona with a doctoral degree in clinical psychology and more than twenty-five years of experience.

Now, the part that matters more. I’ve lived a life, too.

And during those years, I haven’t only been a therapist. I’ve known profound love and heartbreaking loss, joy and grief, healing and uncertainty, times of clarity and times when I had no idea what would come next. I know something about what it is to be changed by life rather than simply find a way through it.

Those experiences haven’t given me answers for someone else’s life, but they have given me a deep respect for how complicated, surprising, painful, beautiful, and sometimes mysterious it is to be human. They’ve also made me less interested in standing at a clinical distance and more interested in meeting the person sitting across from me.

I believe there is something in each of us that moves toward greater wholeness when given enough room, attention, honesty, and care. My job isn’t to tell you who you should become, but to meet you where you are, bring everything I know and everything I am to our work, and help create the conditions in which something new can emerge.