Specialities
Modern, client-centered therapy guiding you through connection, communication, and life’s messy chapters.
What I can help with | Teen, Adults, & Couples Therapy in Northern Utah
Life can get messy, and you don’t have to navigate it alone. I’m a Marriage and Family Therapy Intern ( MFT-I) under supervision at Aspire Counseling Services. My modern, client-centered approach focuses on strengthening communication, rebuilding connection, and finding what works best for you.
Therapy for Young Adults in Utah
Growing up is harder that it looks from the outside. Young adults are navigating anxiety, depression, identity questions, social pressures, and family stress often without the tools to process any of it, and without anyone around them who actually gets it.
I work with young adults in a space that’s genuinely theirs with no lectures, no agendas, no pretending everythign is fine. You get to show up exactly as you are with unconditional support and respect.
What I help with:
Anxiety
Depression
LGBTQ+ identity and experiences
Neurodiversity including ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, and autism
Social challenges
Family conflict
School stress, and
Figuring out who you actual are separate from who everyone else needs you to be.
What changes:
Better tools for the hard moments
Clearer sense for your own needs
Confidence and autonomy to excel into adulthood
Couples Counseling & Relationship Therapy in Layton, UT
Every couple hits rough pataches. But when communication shuts down, conflict keeps cycling, or intimacy has quietly disappeared, it can start to feel that you are living with a stranger.
Couples therapy here isn’t about deciding who is right. It’s about understanding what is actually happening between you including patterns, the unspoken stuff, the distance, and building something better on purpose. Both of you desire to feel heard. Both of you deserve a relationship that actually works. This includes a an approach where you aren’t sure if you want to stay in the relationship or separate.
What I help with:
Communication
Reoccuring conflict
Emotional and physical disconnection
Intimacy and sex therapy
Rebuilding after infidelity
LGBTQ+ relationships
Major life transitions as a couple
Assisting couples with separation and divorce
What changes:
Fewer reoccuring arguments
Deeper connection
Better intimacy
A relationship that feels like a partnership again.
Parenting Support in Northern Utah
Parenting is one of the most demanding things a person can do and it gets harder when your kid is struggling, communication has broken down, or you are trying to show up for your fmaily during a season when you are already running on empty.
You are not family. You are carrying a lot. You deserve support too.
What I help with:
Parenting a neurodiverse or differently-wire child
Family communication and conflict
Co-parenting
Blended families
Adolescent behavior
Major family transitions
What changes:
A calmer household
Better tools for hard conversations
Family dynamic where everyone gets to be seen
Trauma Therapy & Support Through Life’s Hardest Seasons
Some seasons of life ask more of you than you ever expect. Infertility. Loss. Military life. A diagnosis. The kind of change that quietly rewrites everything and leaves you wondering who you are on the other side of it. Trauma and major transitions don’t just affect you inidividually. They ripple into your relationships, your sense of self, and your ability to show up for people you love.
What I help with:
Trauma
PTSD
Infertility and perinatal loss
Grief
Military and long-distance relationships
Postpartum adjusment
Major life changes
What changes:
Making sense of what happened
Rebuilding steadiness
Mindfulness tools and techniques
Finding a path forward that honors your expereince without it defining you
How we work together.
I follow a modern, client-centered approach, tailoring therapy to each client’s unique needs. My work is informed by evidence-based methods and pulling in influences of many methodologies to best fit your needs.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT): Strengths attachment and emtotional intimacy.
Narrative Therapy: Honoring your experience and story while watching you take autonomy of your future.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Helps to identify and change thought patterns to improve emotional well-being and behavior.
Solution Focused Brief Therapy: Emphasis on solving your current challenges and leaning into your strengths.
Gottman Method: Enhancing relationship satisfaction and connection.
Sex Therapy: This approach is as unique as you and your relationship. I blend biopsychsocial, sensate, and mindfulness based approachs to help you holistically find your version of intimacy and pleasure.