Therapy for Your Relationship With Yourself
I provide individual therapy for adults navigating transitions from college and graduate school to break-ups, divorce, separation, single parenting, co-parenting stress, relationship conflict, and the process of rebuilding their lives and relationships. My role is not to tell you whether to stay, leave, reconcile, or make a particular legal decision. Instead, I help you slow things down, understand the patterns influencing your choices, communicate more effectively, establish healthier boundaries, and decide what you want your life to look like moving forward.
You might be struggling to communicate what you need, repeatedly finding yourself in painful relationship dynamics, adjusting to dating again, rebuilding trust after being hurt, or trying to remain emotionally present while managing work and parenting.
Some people enter therapy because they want to repair an important relationship. Others need help accepting that a relationship has changed or ended. Many are trying to stop measuring their worth by whether another person chooses, understands, or approves of them.
Together, we can explore both what has happened to you and how you have learned to respond. The goal is not to assign blame. It is to help you recognize patterns, understand your emotional reactions, and make choices that are more consistent with the person, parent, or partner you want to become.
Additional Areas of Experience
You do not need to be going through a divorce or major life change to work with me. I also support:
- Young professionals dealing with work stress, relationship difficulties, ADHD, or uncertainty about adulthood
- College and graduate students navigating academic pressure, career decisions, relationships, or difficulty completing major projects or dissertations
- Trauma survivors working to feel safer, understand their reactions, and regain a sense of control
- Autistic and neurodivergent adults working on communication, relationships, and self-understanding
- People struggling with body image, self-worth, or feeling disconnected from their bodies
- Adults adjusting to parenthood and other major changes in family roles
- People living with complex or persistent mental health conditions who want a therapist comfortable working with significant symptoms and complicated histories
- People coming out or exploring how gender, sexuality, relationships, and identity fit into the life they want to build
Although these concerns may look different, they often share a common experience: the way you have been coping is no longer working, but you are not yet sure what should replace it.
An Affirming and Down-to-Earth Approach
My practice is LGBTQIA+, transgender, poly, and kink affirming. I welcome clients of all genders, sexual orientations, identities, and relationship structures. You should not have to educate your therapist about your identity or defend the legitimacy of your relationships before you can begin working on the issues that brought you to therapy.
At the same time, your identity does not have to be the focus of treatment unless you want it to be. It is one part of understanding you as a whole person.
I believe people grow when they feel accepted, understood, and safe enough to be honest. Therapy with me is collaborative, practical, and nonjudgmental. I use cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy skills to help clients examine unhelpful thought patterns, manage difficult emotions, communicate more effectively, and change habits that no longer serve them.
I will listen and help you make sense of what you are experiencing, but our work will also focus on what can change outside the therapy room. That may involve practicing a difficult conversation, establishing a boundary, approaching a decision differently, tolerating an uncomfortable emotion, or taking one manageable step toward the life you want.
Clinical Background
My professional experience includes work in inpatient psychiatry, substance-use rehabilitation, and the school system as well as outpatient practice. These settings taught me to remain grounded and compassionate when people are dealing with complicated relationships, trauma, serious symptoms, or periods of significant instability.
I am fully licensed in Nebraska and hold a doctorate in clinical social work. This combination of clinical experience and advanced education allows me to work comfortably with both everyday life problems and more complex mental health concerns.
You do not have to have everything figured out before starting therapy. If you feel stuck, overwhelmed, uncertain, or ready to rebuild, we can begin by understanding where you are now and identifying what needs to happen next.
Insurance and Payment
I accept Blue Cross and Blue Shield, UnitedHealthcare, UMR, Medica, Optum, Student Resources, Midlands Choice, Aetna, UnitedHealthcare Community Plan Medicaid, and Molina Medicaid.
I also welcome self-pay clients who prefer not to use insurance for therapy. Coverage and out-of-pocket costs vary by plan, and I can help you verify your benefits before your first appointment.
Contact me to schedule a free consultation and determine whether working together feels like a good fit.