The Athlete

I've been a competitive basketball player for nearly 30 years. I played Division I women's basketball at Syracuse University and I still compete and coach a high-level circuit team in the Fort Worth area today. I've lived the full arc of athletic identity: the drive, the discipline, the way sports become the answer to every question about who you are — and what happens when that identity gets shaken.

I also worked with top residential treatment programs in the country, including their athlete tracks — a programs built specifically for current and former professional athletes working through performance anxiety, identity, substance use, trauma, and the mental toll of high-level competition. That work deepened my understanding of what athletes carry and how different their path to healing looks from the general population.

When I sit with an athlete who's lost their edge, who doesn't know who they are outside the game, or who's been white-knuckling their way through a season — I'm not theorizing. I've been there.

The Law Enforcement & Military Background

Five years in law enforcement. Years supporting military families at the highest levels of service, including Special Operations personnel. I understand the culture: the stoicism, the skepticism about therapy, the way the job gets into your bones and doesn't clock out when you do.

I don't ask first responders to talk about their feelings. I meet them in their language. And I don't flinch at what they've seen — nothing will.

The Clinician

Sixteen years licensed. Over a decade in crisis settings — psychiatric hospitals, substance abuse treatment centers, Employee Assistance Programs, and the kinds of places most people don't know exist until they need them. Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas and Montana.

My graduate training at Hardin-Simmons University gave me a strong clinical foundation, but one experience shaped how I think about therapy more than any textbook: studying logotherapy under a protégé, Dr. Bob Barnes, of Viktor Frankl. Frankl believed that the deepest human drive isn't pleasure or power — it's meaning. That idea is woven into everything I do. When a client feels stuck, lost, or disconnected from who they are, the work isn't just about managing symptoms. It's about reconnecting with what matters and building forward from there.

My primary modality is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) — goal-oriented, evidence-based, and built around where you actually want to go. But the philosophical foundation underneath it comes from Frankl: the belief that even in the hardest circumstances, you can find meaning, and meaning is where your power lives.

The Person

I'm a single mother of three. I recently adopted two German Shepherds. I've done, and continue to do, the kind of work I ask of my clients. That's not a credential you'll find on a licensing board's website — but it might be the most important one.