My professional involvement in diverse communities and the agencies that serve them has shaped the nature of my private practice. I am both a Child Mental Health Specialist and an Ethnic Minority Mental Health Specialist. Currently I work in private practice with adults and children ages 4+ with a wide variety of issues and goals and have a special focus on cross-cultural health, cancer and chronic illness, anxiety, and play therapy. I am an integrative therapist, meaning that I draw from several theories of behavior change and this lack of rigidity allows me to collaboratively tailor sessions to meet the needs of my clients. I am a member of the Association for Play Therapy, the Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work, Give an Hour, and Open Path.

I am doing my life's work and am excited to assist in your own professional development. I have experience supervising interns and licensure candidates and providing clinical consultation. My supervisory style is warmly direct and collaborative. I see our relationship as going far beyond me just sharing expertise to one of helping you create your own personal style, reflect on areas of growth, and enhance your skills. I have experience with helping other professionals work through their burnout and trauma stewardship and shred that dreaded imposter syndrome. I am never done learning and find the ongoing research in our field to be fascinating. I help supervisees identify their own professional learning goals and my MLIS degree gives me solid expertise in finding resources for learni