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When people begin therapy, they often take a risk that their openness and vulnerability will pay off. To get the most out of therapy, it is essential to build a strong client-therapist relationship. I encourage clients to bring their authentic selves into therapy, something that I also attempt to do to create an environment where my clients feel safe and heard. I emphasize collaboration and encouraging active participation in shaping the counseling process. I am happy to adjust my style to help you meet your goals and harness your individual strengths.

As a counseling psychologist with over a decade of experience, I offer short- and long-term individual and group therapy sessions. I help adults understand themselves better by exploring how their current and past relationships have influenced their thoughts, feelings, and actions.

My training enables me to address issues like depression, anxiety, neurodivergence, and relationship problems. I am particularly passionate about working with identity issues, including life phases, major life transitions, gender identity, and LGBTQ+ experiences. I also conduct assessments for clients seeking gender-affirming surgery.

I support adults dealing with the effects of trauma, including experiences like sexual assault, accidents, and interpersonal violence. With my background as a trauma specialist in a university setting and a Veterans Affairs PTSD clinic, I primarily use a feminist and interpersonal approach in my trauma work. I am a certified provider of Prolonged Exposure and Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD.

My therapy approach combines existential-humanistic and interpersonal psychodynamic theories. I examine relationship patterns, work to deepen emotions, and highlight your strengths. I aim to help you find a greater sense of purpose in life. My feminist views also inform my practice, recognizing how power dynamics and cultural complexities shape our experiences. I am committed to providing ethical and affirming care to individuals with marginalized identities.

In my free time, I enjoy live music, traveling, cooking, and baking. Spending time with my loved ones keeps me going. I am also a fan of college basketball and attempt to keep up with my elderly Shetland Sheepdog.

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Originally from Des Moines, Iowa, I earned my MA and PhD in Counseling Psychology, along with a graduate certificate in Women's Studies, from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. My background includes working at university counseling centers and in private practice, providing individual and group psychotherapy to adults across the lifespan. I work with clients who want to address depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties like isolating, difficulty opening up, and people pleasing, and questions and stressors related to holding marginalized identities. This includes exploring questions and emerging awareness of gender identity and sexuality and working with trans and non-binary clients to access needed healthcare.

My therapeutic approach is compassionate and collaborative. In session, we’ll focus on exploring emotions, vulnerability and authenticity, self-compassion, and societal influences like oppression and privilege. We’ll focus on what’s happening in the moment for you, during our therapy sessions, and explore how your current patterns are connected to those you learned growing up, providing an opportunity to try doing things differently in the safety of the therapy relationship.

If you want to learn more about the theories I use, check out: Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, Attachment theory, Teyber’s Interpersonal Process, Emotion-Focused Therapy, and Feminist Therapy. When it’s helpful to build new coping skills, I draw from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Outside of work, I spend time with friends and family, read, cook and eat tasty food, and am on or in the water as much as possible.

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I offer individual therapy for adults for a range of emotional, behavioral, cognitive, relationship, and developmental challenges, parenting issues, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and many other mental health concerns. I studied at the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology, University of Virginia, and Colgate University. I have been licensed as a psychologist in Minnesota since 2002.

The clinical hour is a great pleasure for me. I enjoy trying to help clients, especially by helping them understand themselves. I also enjoy getting to know clients over time and both guiding and being surprised by each course of therapy.

My decision to work as a clinical psychologist is one of a handful of important choices I’ve made about which I have no second thoughts. I love working at the Duluth Psychological Clinic, which I have done since 2007. The collegiality, professionalism, intelligence, generosity, and good humor of my colleagues sustains me.

I live in Duluth with my spouse. We enjoy every moment with our two adult children, who live elsewhere. I enjoy running, reading, classical music, plays, and doing just about anything in our backyard. Discussing books and ideas is an abiding pleasure, as is any time with family and friends.

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Born and raised in New England, I received my undergraduate degree from St. Bonaventure University and earned my Ph.D. in psychology from Vanderbilt University in 1978. Since then, I have been a professor of psychology and health education at the University of Minnesota Duluth, where I have also served as department head and dean. My expertise includes eating disorders, sexual behavior, and gender issues, and I have authored one book and 11 research articles. I use a cognitive-behavioral approach in therapy, helping clients change negative thoughts and behaviors, and I provide individual, family, and couples counseling for issues like anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Licensed as a clinical psychologist in Minnesota since 1981, I also run a therapy group for adult males with sexual issues. I have been married since 1984 and have two grown children.

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My specialty is health psychology. I work with individuals with chronic pain, cancer, neurological conditions, gastrointestinal disorders, changes with aging, sleep problems, and tinnitus. I have extensive experience helping people in the LGBTQ+ community navigate barriers to gender-affirming care. I also enjoy helping people improve depression, anxiety, and adjustment to life’s challenges. I work with individuals from late adolescence through older adulthood.

I am a licensed psychologist in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Since earning an MA in Clinical Psychology from Western Kentucky University in 1999 and a PsyD in Clinical Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology in 2009, I have provided psychotherapy and health psychology services to children, adolescents, and adults from office to hospital settings. Treatment interventions I employ are most commonly cognitive-behavioral and solution-focused therapy, biofeedback, and clinical hypnosis.

Outside of work, I enjoy exploring Duluth and beyond on foot and bicycle and relaxing at home listening to music, cooking, and being with my human and feline companions.

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I enjoy occasional problem-solving and trying to keep numbers organized for community organizations and small businesses. I feel very enriched by people I've gotten to know at several jobs. I also enjoy spending time with my spouse going to all sorts of festivals, walking around new places, engaging with people organizing around justice issues, and having good food whether home-cooked or going out.