I’ve been practicing counseling since 2011 and have worked across private practice, hospital systems, addiction treatment, and behavioral health leadership. Over the years, I’ve served in both clinical and leadership roles within programs of all sizes, helping people navigate anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship struggles, burnout, and long-standing emotional patterns.
My educational background began at Huntington University, where I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and later completed my Master’s degree in Counseling. During that time, I also trained through the Indianapolis Gestalt Institute and developed a strong foundation in experiential and relational psychotherapy. I later completed advanced addiction counseling training through Indiana Wesleyan University.
I trained under Dr. John Townsend, completed the Townsend Leadership Program (TLP), and later spent seven years teaching in graduate counseling programs through the Townsend Institute at Concordia University-Irvine and Huntington University. That experience shaped how I understand growth and change. Lasting change is rarely just about insight or motivation. It usually involves developing the internal capacities needed to handle emotions, relationships, boundaries, stress, and responsibility in healthier and more stable ways over time.
Most of the people I work with are thoughtful, capable, high-functioning adults who feel stuck in patterns they cannot fully break. From the outside, life may appear successful or put together. Internally, there is often anxiety, emotional exhaustion, compulsive behaviors, disconnection, relationship strain, self-criticism, or the constant feeling of carrying too much alone.
Many clients who come to me have already spent years trying to understand themselves. They are insightful. They often know the patterns intellectually. What they are looking for is a deeper kind of change that actually shifts the cycle instead of temporarily managing it.
My work focuses on helping people understand why they keep repeating the same emotional, relational, and behavioral dynamics and how to change those patterns at a deeper level. I use a blend of psychodynamic therapy, relational therapy, and practical cognitive strategies. That means we pay attention to both the underlying emotional structure beneath the struggle and the real-life patterns that continue to reinforce it day to day.
Therapy with me is active, relational, honest, and growth-oriented. I tend to work well with people who want more than surface-level coping skills and are ready to better understand themselves, their relationships, and the deeper drivers behind the way they live and respond.
Through Dynamic Growth Counseling LLC, I help adults move out of repetitive cycles and toward a more grounded, connected, and emotionally stable way of living.
