About Elizabeth

Therapy with me is collaborative, compassionate, and grounded in the belief that our experiences shape us—but they don't have to define what comes next.

I work with adults and couples who are carrying the effects of painful experiences, relationship wounds, grief, anxiety, shame, or patterns that seem to keep repeating even when they understand where those patterns came from.

My goal isn't simply to help you understand why you feel or respond the way you do. I want to help you move toward healing—so that the past has less influence over how you experience yourself, your relationships, and your life today.

I was drawn to trauma work because I believe healing is possible, even when painful experiences have shaped the way you see yourself, relate to others, or move through the world.

One of the things I've learned—both personally and professionally—is that understanding why you feel the way you do isn't always enough to create change. You can know where a pattern came from and still find yourself repeating it. You can know that something happened years ago and still feel its effects today.

That's why this work is meaningful to me. I want therapy to be a place where insight becomes more than understanding—where you can begin to process what happened, relate to yourself with greater compassion, and experience your past as something that happened to you rather than something you have to keep living inside.

Understanding why you feel the way you do is important. But sometimes understanding isn't enough to create change.

My approach to therapy is trauma-informed, relational, and collaborative. I believe many of the ways we cope, protect ourselves, and relate to others developed for a reason. Rather than viewing these patterns as something “wrong” with you, we'll work together to understand what they have been protecting—and whether they are still serving you today.

I integrate EMDR, attachment-based approaches, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and cognitive-behavioral strategies based on your individual needs. With couples, I focus on helping partners recognize the patterns that keep them disconnected, understand the emotions and attachment needs underneath those patterns, and create safer, more meaningful connection.

Trauma work is not about forcing you to relive painful experiences. We move at a pace that respects your nervous system, your readiness, and your goals. When appropriate, EMDR can help the brain process experiences that continue to feel unresolved, so that memories from the past have less power over your life in the present.

Ultimately, my goal is not simply to help you cope better. It is to help you experience meaningful, lasting change.

I have been practicing Marriage and Family Therapy since 2018 and hold master's degrees in Marital and Family Therapy and Divinity. I am also pursuing my Ed.D. in Counseling.

I am licensed to provide therapy in California, Nevada, Utah, North Carolina, and South Carolina, allowing me to work with clients across multiple states through telehealth.

My clinical training includes EMDR, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), Gottman Method Couples Therapy, and Prepare/Enrich. I have also received advanced EMDR training in the Recent Traumatic Event Protocol and Group Traumatic Event Protocol (R-TEP/G-TEP), along with additional training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) and Habit Reversal Training.

Throughout my career, I have worked with individuals, couples, and families experiencing trauma, grief, anxiety, relationship distress, attachment wounds, and significant life transitions. These experiences have shaped the trauma-informed and relational approach I bring to my work today.

For clients who desire it, Christian faith can be thoughtfully integrated into the therapeutic process. My background includes a Master of Divinity degree, which allows me to approach the intersection of faith, relationships, emotional health, and healing with both clinical and theological understanding.

Faith-integrated therapy is always guided by you. This may include exploring your relationship with God, spiritual questions or struggles, shame, forgiveness, grief, boundaries, relationships, or the ways your faith influences how you understand yourself and your experiences.

You do not need to feel certain in your faith or have everything figured out. Therapy can also be a place to bring questions, doubts, spiritual hurt, or complicated experiences with faith.