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For over thirty years, I have been a helper in fields alleviating human suffering. In pastoral care, I served as a chaplain and educator in hospital settings and community mental health. Now fifteen years a licensed professional counselor, my dedication is to help strengthen families and help individuals heal and find hopefulness in understanding their lives.

Beyond my master’s level education is my continued training for psychotherapy. This includes completing programs of the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute: the one-year Child Development Program, the two-year Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy program / Child and Adolescent Extension, and a one-year analytic-level course in Infant Observation, exploring parent-infant relationships within the family context. My continued preparation affirms what I am privileged to learn from individuals each day: in countless, unique ways, our early lives influence our personality, relationships, and therapeutic change.

Issues I have experience in treating include young children and parents’ difficulties with transitioning to early care and education, issues of parents and children in divorce, problematic behaviors in children and adolescents, self-esteem issues, issues of anxiety, depression, grief, loss, bereavement, caregiver stress, crises of faith, marital issues, gender issues, and post-traumatic stress.  

I offer daytime, evening, and Saturday hours for meetings via tele-therapy and in-person. My office is conveniently near the Page Ave Extension in Maryland Heights, Missouri.