I earned my Master’s in Professional Counseling with a concentration in Marriage and Family Therapy from Texas State University in San Marcos, TX and became licensed in Texas and Florida as a Marriage and Family Therapist. Since then I have worked in a variety of community counseling settings. I have worked with clients from ages 3 through 80 and with individuals, couples, and families. With that breadth of experience, very little shocks or surprises me and I have gotten a pretty good sense of where the types of counseling that play to my strengths as a counselor overlap with the types of counseling that are helpful for my clients. This sense (along with learning about lots and lots of research into what helps people find and maintain mental health) has led to the following guiding principles that shape all the counseling I do: 1) the client is always in charge, 2) change and health happen through relationships, and 3) counseling should be efficient. If you’re interested, please ask me about how those principles apply to your situation.