My Commitment as Your Therapist

A woman with brown hair and light skin sitting on a black velvet couch in front of a dark wall, wearing a cream-colored blazer and pants, beige strappy high heels, and jewelry.

When I started my own therapy journey years ago, I wasn’t quite sure why I was there. I just knew I felt stuck. It was an incredibly humbling, scary experience—yet I know deep down that I was right where I needed to be. Maybe that’s where you are too.

When I talked with my therapist about where I’d been, who I believed I was, and where I wanted to go, she said, “Sounds like you want to be a therapist.” A year later, I received an email from The King’s University notifying me about the upcoming deadline to apply to their Marriage and Family Therapy Master’s program. I filled out the form as though I’d planned it all along.

Today, I work with bright, motivated clients who often come in struggling to find hope, unsure how to find a way out of their pain. They’re phenomenal people, but their old tools just aren’t working anymore. By the end of their work with me, clients find new hope, joy, and solutions. Some shift patterns in their lives that have caused pain for years.

I commit to be a lifelong learner who walks alongside you by continually investing in my own healing and growth. I do not ask you to go where I’m unwilling to go, and I don’t believe I can take you where I’ve never been. My clients are some of the most courageous, inspiring people I have ever met, and I seek to serve you with excellence. My #1 goal is to work myself out of a job. I love getting to see you experience the growth and transformation you came to therapy for.

Guiding Principles

Work Toward Connectedness

All problems, whether psychological, emotional, spiritual, or physical, come from a sense of separation—from God, others, and self. Reconnection is the path to healing. When I use the word “God,” I’m referring to the God of the Bible, perfectly revealed in Jesus. Some of my clients may prefer terms like “Higher Power,” “Creator,” “Source,” “Ultimate Truth,” or “Inner Knowing.”

Everyone Can Hear from God

You were designed to hear from God—the Voice of Truth and Love. Intrusive thoughts, anxiety, depression—these are often symptoms of deep inner loneliness, a sense that we are on our own and that it’s all up to us to “figure it out.” One goal of therapy is to bring us back to our true state of being. It’s easy for Truth and Love to drown out the noise when we’re living in our true identity.

You Are the Expert on You

I believe you are the leader in your own growth and healing, with your own journey and timeline. Any tools I use exist to serve you, not the other way around. One thing you’ll hear me say a lot is “I could be wrong.”

Bottom line: I am a listener, truth-in-love speaker, equipper, and ally; you are the expert on you.

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Education, Licensure & Experience

    • Master of Marriage and Family Therapy, The King's University

    • Master of Theological Studies, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

    • Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts, The University of Texas at Austin

  • Licensed Professional Counselor Associate (License #96758) supervised by Lynn Strom, LPC-S and Mark Cagle, LPC-S.

  • I live in the heart of Fort Worth with my engineer/swing-dance-teacher/baker/Dungeonmaster husband and three adorable rescue pups. In my spare time, I enjoy reading (Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archives right now), hiking, cycling, pickleball, and yoga.

    Before becoming a therapist, I spent 3 years in full-time ministry, 5 years in sales and digital marketing, and 4 years at a Bible translation nonprofit. While in grad school, I completed my 300-hour practicum internship with the Wycliffe USA Counseling Department.

    I have lived in China (我学了中文两年, 但是我想要多练习), spent summers in Japan and Thailand, and visited New Zealand, Israel, Peru, Mexico, Germany, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

    My husband and I have a goal of visiting all the US national parks together (we’d visited quite a few individually before getting married). So far, we’ve marked 10 off our list.