I am a wife, a therapist, an adventure junky, a joker, a writer, a social butterfly, a motorcycle lover, a runner, and a busy bee.

I was once told that I wasn’t going to make it into graduate school and I wouldn’t be able to have a thriving private practice.  I like challenges, so I took that challenge and proved them wrong.  I am passionate and willing to take a risk for my life goals, dreams, and aspirations.  My life long dream was to have a private practice….and I got it!  Not only did I achieve my goal, but I bypassed my expectations.

I could tell you about the boring stuff…like being a Marriage Therapist in San Diego, and give you the “psycho-babble” jargon, but I would prefer to have you know ME, the person behind the scenes.

I sit in this brown swivel chair in my office, absorbing as much information as I can when I am with my clients. My goal is to really understand their world.  My mind gets filled with movie images as they walk me through their lives, catching me up to speed.  My heart dives in, and off we go.  I don’t take sides…and I WON’T take sides.  And I won’t pick who is “right” and who is “wrong;” couples already do enough of that.  I don’t need to keep them stuck in that rut.  So I try to take the couples out of their destructive ways of communicating, and into a new lens of the bond…creating a safe, secure bond. Read More→