I believe a supportive relationship between supervisor and supervisee is of utmost importance in teaching, mentoring, and assessing development of clinical skills.

            I use a developmental model in working with supervisees, in which I carefully track the growth and learning curve of each therapist to help increase clinical skills. Each supervision session is highly structured to help you advocate for your needs. I encourage all supervisees to take a holistic approach in their growth, paying attention to administrative issues, theory and interventions, professional development, and self of the therapist. I support all supervisees in increasing multicultural competencies through use of the Broaching method and ongoing immersion cultural experiences.

            My clinical experience includes individual, youth, and family counseling in private practice, inpatient and outpatient settings, emergency services, and school-based programs.

My areas of expertise include grief/loss counseling, multicultural issues, couples counseling, parenting skills, and crisis intervention. Counseling grieving adolescents is an area I am particularly passionate about, and have received specialized training and volunteered at the Dougy Center (National Grief Center for Children & Families).

Additionally, I have co-authored scholarly articles on counseling grieving adolescents and multicultural issues.  I have served in clinical supervision and management roles in school based mental health programs, walk-in crisis clinics, and as Director of Admissions for a behavioral health hospital. Currently I am completing certification as an Approved Clinical Supervisor, and utilize this specialized training to support therapists in providing high quality, evidence-based services.

I have completed the required education training by Colorado DORA to provide clinical supervision to LPCCs working towards licensure.