I grew up in Medical Lake, Washington and spent 10 years riding horses and involved in various different 4H programs in Spokane County. In 2017, I joined the Navy and spent seven years living on the East Coast. After my time in the military, I graduated from Old Dominion University in Virginia Beach, Virginia with a B.S. in Psychology and a B.S. in Women’s and Gender Studies. While attending ODU, I worked as a behavior technician with kids ages 2-13 who were diagnosed with autism. Upon graduation, my husband and I moved us, our dog, and our cat across the country and back home to Spokane, WA.

I am now enrolled as a graduate student at Gonzaga University in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program. I worked as a Residential Counselor at a residential adolescent psychiatric facility for a year and a half before coming to counseling full time. I now specialize in seeing kids and teens who have experienced trauma and grief. I am working towards becoming an adoption-competent counselor to work with kids, teens, and adults who have been adopted or in the foster system at any point in their life.