Frequently Asked Questions

I’m still in the service and move often, so I’m just now building my practice. I’m planning to offer in-person services at a physical location but for now…

All my services are offered online.

Yes, I encourage it.

The consultation call is the best way for me to understand your concerns and challenges – and for you to know if I can meet your needs.

If it’s a good fit, I can schedule your first appointment. If not, I can refer you to a provider better suited to your needs.

My current hours are 10 AM to 9 PM, Monday through Thursday.

I offer weekend appointments where possible, but I have military commitments at least one weekend per month. My weekend schedule varies, so please check in with me about this.

The intake session is usually 90 minutes. Here, we’ll get to know each other, and I’ll gather your history, assess your strengths, and make sure I understand your goals and expectations.

From there, I’ll make a few recommendations, and we will choose your way ahead together so that you can feel better as soon as possible.

Subsequent sessions are 45 minutes long.

Your therapist typically schedules appointments before the end of each session. If you need to change your appointment, please send us a request through our Contact form on this site.

Regular attendance is important for therapeutic progress. Please provide at least 24 hours’ written notice for cancellations or reschedules to avoid being charged for the session. Exceptions can be made for emergencies.

I make every effort to protect your information and privacy. All notes, records, emails, and phone calls are on HIPAA-compliant systems. For online sessions, I wear headphones to ensure your privacy.

Please note there are limits to confidentiality, such as when you disclose that you’re a danger to yourself or others.

Children and teenagers can be signed up for therapy by the family.

Adults must call in or fill out paperwork of their own accord.

Teletherapy is best on a laptop or desktop computer with a camera, headphones, and a network speed of at least 25mbps download speed / 4mbps upload speed.

Depending on the work, we may be able to have a phone conversation without video.

You bet!

Trauma can be defined as a sense of disturbance when considering a particular memory. Some symptoms can be problems with sleep, reoccurring thoughts, long-term irritability, and jumping at loud, sudden sounds.

When the brain is constantly flooded with cortisol from living in survival mode, we can experience trouble with memory and other side effects that feel a lot like anxiety. Trauma work and/or neurofeedback can restore functioning.

My current license allows me to help residents of Texas.

I typically see adults (18+), but I sometimes see teens on a case-by-case basis.

I see all sorts of adults (men, women, non-binary, transgender, questioning, etc.), but I don’t see couples.

No. If you feel it’s needed, I can work on helping you with a referral.

Treatments and education are provided from a neuro-therapeutic lens to improve brain structure functioning. Our approach will depend on your challenges, goals, and understanding of it (e.g., its limitations and potential outcomes).

For anxiety and trauma, I typically use Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), neurofeedback, or parts work through Internal Family Systems (IFS) or Ego State Therapy.

I also provide Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Trauma-Informed Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and Crisis Response Planning.

In graduate school, I worked in a residential treatment center for youth. I also traveled to emergency rooms to provide assessment, diagnosis, and discharge planning as a psych response team through Memorial Hermann.

Following graduation and licensure, I worked as a therapist in a different residential treatment center that placed youth from trafficking rings. This work was interrupted by a deployment.

When I returned home, I accepted a position in private practice with a trauma center, traveling to and working in hospital systems in Houston.

I am trained in EMDR by EMDRIA-approved trainer Rick Levinson and advanced EMDR by Neuroscientist Dr. Jennifer Sweeton. My clients benefit from my love of neuroscience, which has led me to extensively study it as the primary form and focus of healing. It all starts in the brain; however, trauma also lives in the body. This allows me to apply the techniques of Peter Levine to heal the trauma from the body with Somatic Experiencing.

I am certified in Neurofeedback from Ochs Labs and look forward to continuing that education in microcurrent neurofeedback.

Along the way through work experience, online training, conventions, and consultations, I am also either trained or certified in DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy), TF-CBT (Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), Person-Centered Processing, Motivational Interviewing, Attachment therapy, Crisis Response Planning for suicide ideation, and Internal Family Systems & Ego State Therapy for dissociation.

I have always had a passion for unlocking the human mind from the effects of trauma and have structured all my education around this.

I’m now credentialed with the American Board of Clinical Social Workers and look forward to building my practice to help others heal and change through neuroscience.

First, be easy on yourself and try to manage expectations. Your brain’s current functioning results from a lifetime of experiences and associations. Change takes time and effort; sometimes, it’s not as fast as we’d like.

Second, go with the process and communicate about the experience. Ask all the questions.

Third, attend regularly. Let’s get through the tough stuff as efficiently and quickly as possible without prolonging the resolutions.

Talk therapy can be a powerful healing tool for certain challenges, but EMDR does a better job of clearing trauma from neural networks and the nervous system.

EMDR desensitizes traumatic memories without having to relive the experience. Most clients who choose EMDR are surprised at how effective it can be. They report feeling relieved – and it wasn’t as hard as they thought.

I have never worked with a client who said they could even feel it. Depending on the system, it typically uses a microcurrent or an electromagnetic wave that is less powerful than an FM Radio wave.

I really enjoyed the work. It was incredibly interesting… but hard at times. On my birthday one year, I had a sandwich thrown at me!

But I also got to examine brains and make connections to behaviors of every kind. I’m pretty sure I’ve personally experienced clients with almost every known mental health diagnosis out there.

I’ve met SO many people with SO many backgrounds and challenges. It’s humbling work that builds compassion for people from every possible situation.

Yes!!! If it has fur and paws, I’m all in!

I haven’t gotten another dog because it’s hard to ask others to keep it when away for the military, so I’m waiting. I want my practice to eventually have a trained therapy dog, so it probably won’t be much longer.

For now, I have a dog-sized cat named Cat Atonic. He’s 18 pounds of pure floof!

Send me a message and tell me about your favorite animal!