FAQ

Everything I do is online. I'm licensed in both Washington and Idaho, so if you live in either state, we can work together from wherever you are.

Sessions happen over HIPAA-compliant video through my client portal. You'll get your link by email or text 24 hours before we meet, and you sign in from home or any private space that suits you.

Voice to voice, face to face. When it's useful, we can share photos or documents by screen share.

Click the SCHEDULE button to send a direct request through my practice calendar. If you have questions before you book, email me at admin@restorativeresiliencecounseling.com.

Every consultation is a free 30-minute video call, so we get real face-to-face, voice-to-voice time before anything else. We'll talk through what you're looking for, drawing on the intake information you've shared. If it feels like a fit, we can get you on the calendar before we say goodbye.

Individual sessions run about 55 minutes and usually happen weekly. If you're carrying more right now and want more support, some clients meet two or three times a week. Couples and group sessions are scheduled in 90-minute blocks.

I partner with a very small limited insurance companies, but am moving away from continued partnership over time.

Working outside insurance means greater privacy, more flexibility, and care built around your real needs. Insurance companies require a mental health diagnosis from the first session, pressuring clinicians to give a label before they fully know a person. That diagnosis can also follow you into wider medical and social settings, where it opens the door to labeling and discrimination. Staying outside of that keeps our focus where it belongs: on your goals and your timeline, with no third party setting the terms. It also gives you the most control and protection over your own care records for the long haul.

I work with adults, 18 and older. I welcome clients of any sex or gender identity, and I offer individual, couples, and group therapy. I also provide clinical supervision for associate-level LMHCs and LPCs in Washington and Idaho.

I love working with people who've never quite felt like they fit, in their families, their schools, their workplaces, or anywhere else they were supposed to belong.

Often they're adults who are ready to build new tools, new perspectives, and new possibilities for their lives. I love working with people who can feel that where they are right now isn't where their purpose is pointing them, but who need a partner to help shape a vision for what comes next.

And I really enjoy supporting people living with unexplained symptoms and overwhelming experiences, the kind that have made it hard to trust other people and, sometimes, themselves.

It's therapy built on relational connection instead of power. A blend of organic connection, education, and shared creativity.

We do a lot of honest truth-telling together, paired with practices that help you build a better relationship with both your body and your mind. It means honoring your uniqueness, your messiness, your particular needs, and the way your sensory world actually works. I bring balanced self-disclosure, and I take both the work and the play seriously.

Part of that honesty is this: I'll sometimes tell you things you don't want to hear. I can do that because the relationship is strong enough to hold it.

Before I became a therapist, I spent 14 years supporting people of all ages as they escaped and recovered from sexual exploitation and human trafficking. I've walked alongside thousands of people through high-level trauma rooted in families, churches, schools, helping systems, and businesses.

Because of that, I don't intimidate easily, and I won't flinch. If I ever reach the edge of my own knowledge or resources, I have a deep network of trusted colleagues across many cities and states to draw from, so you get the most skilled support within my reach. Nothing's off the table here.

To me, therapy is about reclaiming our humanity, in the face of rules, systems, and expectations that so often work to shrink us, silence us, and strip that humanity away.

I get to be a collaborative partner, offering reflection, insight, education, and a willingness to wrestle through hard things together. My work with one person often turns into ripples that reach whole families, workplaces, and communities. Getting to witness those ripples is the most exciting, rewarding, and humbling part of this work.

I've always been a bit of a misfit in bigger social groups. Extroverted, and also the one who slips off to recharge alone in a corner, who'd choose nature and animals over a busy city outing most days.

Neurodivergence, and the adaptations we make after trauma, look to me like beautiful evidence of how resilient and adaptable people are. I don't believe our inner world can stay healthy when our outer world is stressed, strained, or neglected, and the reverse is just as true.

I move through the world as a sensory-seeking, late-diagnosed AuDHD person who knows firsthand what it's like to learn how to support yourself later in life. Helping other people bring strength to the ongoing authorship of their own stories is exactly what I'm here for.

I hold a Master's of Counseling Psychology from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. I'm also certified in art therapy, sex therapy, and Lifespan Integration, with specialized training to support late-diagnosed neurodivergent adults. Before I became a therapist, I spent 14 years in as a non-profit leader in victims' advocacy, supporting survivors of sexual exploitation. I have worked in community mental health, homeless youth resources, and authored a health classroom takeover for middle school and high school efforts toward sexual exploitation prevention, all before becoming a therapist.

Yes. I'm an LMHC in Washington (MHC.LH.61460596) and an LCPC in Idaho (2271364).

No couch required. Since all my work is online, you can sign in from home or any private space, sit however you like, and move around as much as you need to.

Nobody ever has to apologize for an emotional experience in this space. Tears, anger, all of it. There will be times we feel strong emotions together, and I want you to bring whatever helps you feel most like yourself.

I believe good therapy is about being human together. That means there will be times you learn things about me, too. You're welcome to ask. Some questions I'll answer, and others I'll gently redirect to keep our work safe.

Only if you tell me pineapple belongs on pizza. Just kidding.

My job is to come into our work with curiosity and support. And I won't hold it against you if you judge me for wholeheartedly believing in Bigfoot, and knowing way too much about how they behave in different parts of the world (a PNW girl thing).

Pinterest makes sure I never get bored with what I'm cooking. Audible lets me listen to a book while I work out. And of course my client portal app keeps me in contact with my clients during business hours, which I think they appreciate.

Lizard, of course! Spock may vaporize Rock, but Lizard is his ultimate ENDING!

Both. Snuggled in front of the fire together, at least where I live.