How does collaboration with other providers play into your work?
If I need guidance I always collaborate with my colleagues.
How has your particular field of specialization evolved in recent years and how has that impacted your work?
Learning that an addiction isn't just limited to drugs and alcohol. I can now add other addictions that an individual may struggle with such as gambling and eating addiction.
How do you determine therapy goals with clients? What does that process look like?
I let the client choose their goals in order to be something the client can be successful in reaching that goal. The process starts with the client and they lead the session and when they are ready we develop their treatment goals together.
Specialties
Addiction
Regular involvement with a substance or activity in a compulsive, hard to control way that often has harmful consequences. Often refers to substance use, but can include compulsive behaviors such as sex, gambling, or shopping.
Codependency
Involves a person sacrificing their needs to meet the needs of others. Their thoughts and actions center on a significant other, spouse, friend, or relative. Becomes an issue when relationships are unbalanced and unhealthy.
Alcohol addiction & abuse
Alcohol addiction & abuse
General Expertise
Depression
Depression often causes people to feel sad, empty, or hopeless, and can cause a lack of interest in life. It can also affect a person's thinking patterns and physical health.
Academic challenges
Concerns that impact school performance or academic life. Can include perfectionism, bullying, financial stress, academic transitions, test anxiety, balancing school with other responsibilities, discrimination, or harassment.
Abuse/Survivors of abuse
Abuse includes any significant mistreatment along the lines of psychical, emotional, sexual, verbal, and neglect. Survivors of abuse may experience negative thoughts and feelings, flashbacks, distrust of others, social withdrawal, self-harm, and increased likelihood of developing mental health and substance abuse issues.
Adolescent mental health
Adolescent mental health focuses on adolescent-specific experiences including physical and cognitive development, social and environmental factors, sex, sexual identification and orientation, emotional processing, and substance use. Given the influence that parents/guardians have on adolescents, home life is a particularly important consideration.
Adoption & foster care
Adoption and foster care considerations include education on the process, integrating the new family, establishing household rules and boundaries, processing past trauma on behalf of the child, emotional health, and other adjustment procedures.
Fees
$195
First Session
$180
Family Therapy
$180
Individual Therapy
Types of Therapy
Family Session
Individual Session
Clientele
Young Adults (18-24)
Adults (25-65)
Seniors (65+)
Treatment Approaches / Modalities
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Animal-Assisted Therapy
Family Systems Therapy
Motivational Interviewing
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Training / Certifications
Master Addictions Counselor
MST Therapy
Certified MRT Group Counselor
Matrix Model IOP Certification
Licensure
NM, LMHC, 0198031
Education
Bachelor's Degree, Criminal Justice, Radford University
Master's in Counseling, Grand Canyon University
Work History
Individual, group, and family counseling in an inpatient and outpatient setting with 20 years of experience in addictions. Performing client assessments, evaluation and development, and implementation of effective treatment plans. Individual therapy for mental health. Completing court ordered assessments for individuals involved in the criminal justice system and/or child protective services.
Location
Remote Therapy, Albuquerque, 87199, NM