If you are looking for someone to support you in clarifying your life goals and finding ways to engage with what is deeply meaningful for you, I could be a therapist you would want to work with. If you are struggling in your relationship with conflict around communication or sex and want someone to mediate difficult conversations and help you to cultivate more constructive approaches to conflict, I love that role too. I work with individuals, couples, and families experiencing a wide range of issues, from relational challenges including sexual issues to anxiety to grief to life transitions. I care about racial justice and support for a range of relational structures, and love the LGBTQIA+ community.

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In addition to being warm and compassionate, I can be blunt and direct, which is not for everyone. I care about goal-directed work that creates change, not extended periods of talking about the same thing and staying stuck.

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I also serve as a supervisor for clinicians who are honing their skills in sex therapy, and a trainer for clinicians looking to integrate sex therapy or trauma-informed movement into their practice.

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To those ends, I am trained in mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral interventions, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Prolonged Exposure (PE), and trauma sensitive-trauma center yoga (TC-TSY. With couple work, I tend to bring in a Gottman perspective, as well as Emotionally-Focused and Narrative Therapy.

I have master’s degrees in both communication and social work, certificates in marriage and family therapy and gerontology, am clinically licensed as a social worker, and am an AASECT certified sex therapist and an E-RYT 500 registered yoga teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance and am certified in Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga.  I hold a Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Science, for which I received doctoral-level supervision as a couple and family therapist. I am a clinical associate professor of Social Work at the University of Georgia. As an AASECT-Certified Sex Therapist, I have specialized in working with desire issues, sexual function, recovery from sexual trauma, exploring sexual orientation, and supporting authentic gender expression. I am queer- and poly-affirming and work from an anti-racist framework. I also provide supervision to sex therapists as an AASECT-Certified sex therapy supervisor. 

I value evidence-based approaches and work to offer modalities that are most likely to be helpful for the kind of struggle you want to work through in an efficient way.

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I am paneled with many types of insurance, including BCBS/Anthem, Kaiser, Aetna, Cigna, United, and Medicare. I am not currently accepting new clients. Please check back for future availability or reach out to my amazing colleagues Rasheeda, Amanda, Crystal, Meg, Emma, Jesslyn, or Natalie. 

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