FAQs

I have counseling work experience in residential hospitalization, non-profit outpatient settings, and outpatient private practice settings. I have experience with children, adolescents, adults, and couples, providing personal, psychoeducational and psychosocial counseling services. I also have experience and training in working with spiritual direction, projective, and body-focused techniques. I attended a CACREP Accredited Program, where I obtained a certificate in Integrative Sex Therapy from the Institute for Sexual Wholeness.

My orientation to counseling is based on emphasizing the aspects of the mind as much as the body and spirit. I believe that the primary process of counseling involves aiding clients in achieving a deep understanding of their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and sensations in the holistic context of neurophysiology, biology, sociocultural and multicultural factors, existential beliefs, and formative experiences.

My supervision training includes informal and formal experiences in outpatient settings. My training was formalized during my post-masters training at the University of North Carolina including academic courses.

My approach to supervision is founded in developmental models of supervision, tailored to supervisees’ developmental, cognitive, and conceptual levels, as well as the supervisees’ motivation, skills, and personal attributes, while ensuring the needs of the clients are met.

I may use a variety of roles, such as teacher, counselor, or consultant, addressing overall developmental goals in addition to the expressed and identified performance goals and issues. Supervision may focus on: interventions/techniques, case conceptualization, professional behaviors, the counselor as both a person and guide, integrative skills, self-awareness, and transference.

If you’re ready to move forward, I invite you to schedule a 20 minute phone or video call (using this link or the button below). During this call, you and I will have an opportunity to learn more about each other and discern the best next step for each of us. I also use this call to clarify what consultation and supervision services are and are not.

Not right now. I am most present when I’m working in smaller groups, and I believe I can better attune to the somatic aspects of your development in triadic or individual settings.

Since you can have more than one supervisor, which I highly encourage and recommend, let me know if you need help looking for supervisors who offer group supervision. (South Carolina’s list of current supervisors here.)

You’ve done the work, learned a lot, and gained some mad skills, so I am not here to say none of that matters because it does!

I think all helpers need a somatic-informed space because our culture emphasizes cognitive skills and the intellectualization of the body, which leaves helpers disconnected, unknowingly undermining our deepest vocational intentions to promote healing.

Having a somatic-informed supervisor or consultant helps you cultivate attunement to your deepest self—using practical tools and psychoeducation—so you experience a felt sense of confidence and self-trust as you show up vocationally.