There’s a designated parking space just outside the front gate and parking spaces available along the street.

Session times are based on availability and by appointment only.

Typically, office hours are Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Individual sessions are typically 50 minutes.

Double sessions and couples sessions are 80 minutes.

Please call (805) 712-1646 for a free, initial phone consultation.

I’ll ask you some questions about what’s going on with you, and you’ll have an opportunity to ask any questions you may have of me.

If we agree that working together is what’s best, we’ll schedule the first session. I’ll send you a link with a request to complete some forms and an initial questionnaire before our first session.

Yes, I offer teletherapy sessions using a secure, HIPPA-compliant telehealth platform.

It requires only that you click on the link sent to you and that you have access to an Internet connection from a private spot during our sessions.

I offer face-to-face sessions in keeping with San Luis Obispo County Health Department COVID-19 guidelines.

You may cancel appointments at least 24 hours before your scheduled appointment at no cost.

However, I will assess full fees for cancellations with less than 24-hours’ notification.

I work with individual adult women and couples.

Our first session is mostly about getting to know one another and deciding how our work together can be most helpful to you.

At that first session, we’ll develop a plan focused on your goals for our work together – both in session and between – and a general timeframe for us to evaluate progress and make any necessary adjustments.

Following our initial meeting, I’ll ask couples to complete an individual, standardized, online questionnaire to help us focus our work together so that we may best address your shared goals.

Therapy is about relationships. It’s also as much art as science.

It’s important that you feel comfortable and able to make a genuine connection.

Though you may feel some initial apprehension about therapy, within a session or two, you will have a good feeling about whether you’re in the right place.

Happily, most clients report feeling we’re a good fit and our work together benefits them over time.

However, what’s most important is that you get what you need from therapy.

I’m a Christian Counselor, as well as a Movement Therapist, a Spiritual Director, and a Benedictine, Camaldolese Oblate.

I mention all those things in the same sentence because I recognize that, to function best, be happiest in their relationships and achieve their fullest potential, human beings must address and integrate mind/body and spirit.

My Contemplative Catholic faith and practices are important and indispensable to me. I’d like to hear about your faith, values, spiritual practices, and spiritual struggles and how they impact you, too.

Yes, therapy is strictly confidential – with a few narrow exceptions. Basically, if you disclose that you may harm yourself or others, the law requires me to inform the authorities necessary to maintain safety or to produce testimony or records as required by law.

Beyond those rare exceptions, rest assured that I hold our work together as sacred and maintain the strictest confidence.

Sometimes. Sometimes, I’ll let them roll for a bit to get a sense of the dynamics between them. Mostly, I intervene and get them communicating on a more productive track.

From my perspective, my client is the couple’s relationship, rather than one person or the other. Therefore, I stay primarily focused on the space between you, though I may nudge one or the other person onto a more productive track.

Usually, that happens evenly with both people over time. Overall, the couple doesn’t view me as taking sides, but rather as guiding, protecting, and holding their relationship as sacred.

Not only do I like being a therapist, but I feel honored to walk this journey alongside folks. Doing so fills me with tremendous hope and joy and reminds me, daily, of how blessed I am to do this work.

I’m continually struck by people’s willingness to share the most delicate and fragile aspects of their being and the courage, strength, and resiliency that they display as they heal, problem solve, create the relationships they desire, and blossom into their fullest potential and offer their unique gifts to the world.

Yes, and I still see my own therapist and spiritual director as needed.

You see, we all need the support and guidance of skilled professionals who know us, can see us with both loving and objective eyes, help us work through places where we’re blocked or struggle, and serve as useful guides in unfamiliar territory – so we can be our best selves.

I don’t have a couch, just a love seat. You’re not required to lie on it, but you’re free to do so if you’d like.

My clients frequently say that my office feels so peaceful it’s hard to leave. I hope you’ll feel that it’s a sanctuary for you, too.

I don’t usually take notes during sessions, but I make notes immediately after each session. Our work together is that important and extends beyond the confines of a given session.

I’m listening very carefully and taking notes that help me remember what’s important for you, help us pick up where we left off from our last session, and to notice and communicate to you the arc of your progress over time.

Yep. I have two kitties, a sister and a brother, that have been with me since they were little kittens. They are named Sugar and Spice. I also have seven hens free-ranging around the property, so please be sure to close the gate behind you and be advised that Spot, in particular, may come to greet you in the hopes of receiving treats.

Despite their efforts to convince you that they’re wasting away, don’t let the hens fool you; they’re well-fed and ridiculously spoiled. (Apparently, this is what happens when your children are all grown and have flown the nest, as ours have.) I’d love to hear about your pets, if you have any, too.