MS, PCLC

I was born and raised in Bozeman and feel incredibly grateful to now be doing work I love in the community that raised me. I received my Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from West Texas A&M University and work primarily with teens and adults struggling with eating disorders, body image issues, anxiety, religious trauma and faith transitions, depression, and the messy parts of being a person that don’t always fit neatly into a diagnosis.

I have a particular passion for working with eating disorders and religious trauma, in part because both are personal to me. I have my own lived experience with an eating disorder and with navigating religious trauma and a changing relationship with faith. I know that my experience will never be exactly the same as someone else’s, but I also know there are parts of these struggles that can be difficult to fully understand from the outside. My hope is that my personal experience, combined with my clinical training, allows me to meet clients with both genuine understanding and curiosity about what their experience has been like for them.

I don’t believe my job is to sit across from you and have all the answers. Most of the time, there isn’t one perfect answer anyway. My job is to get curious with you. We can look at the patterns you keep finding yourself in, the things you might have a hard time seeing when you’re in the middle of them, and the reasons certain ways of coping may have made sense at one point but aren’t working so well anymore. Sometimes we’ll work on changing things, and sometimes you might just need someone who can sit with you when things hurt without immediately trying to make them better.

Eating disorder recovery can be incredibly hard, but I also know how much bigger life can become when food, exercise, and your body stop taking up so much of it. Whether you’re struggling with an eating disorder, questioning beliefs you once felt certain about, dealing with anxiety, or simply feeling stuck, you don’t have to come to therapy knowing exactly what’s wrong or what you need. We can figure that out together.

Outside of work, I love spending time with my husband and two kids, going for walks, doing puzzles, and playing music.