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"No one belongs here more than you."   ​ 

Brene Brown

We are designed to connect.   Sometimes, earlier life experiences disrupt healthy ability to attach, connect, and communicate.    It can be helpful to have someone who will show up and listen to "unpack" what is disrupting healthy connections.

Couple's Shadow

My Services

With You Every Step of the Way

I have been in the Marriage and Family Therapy world for 18 years.   I find it a joy and honor to sit with individuals, couples, or families to discuss problems and concerns.  I make it a mission to help clients discover the root causes for ineffective and unhelpful ways of approaching life's ups and downs.  You can anticipate an open approach for each person who walks through the door and a collaboration on tackling the presenting concerns and problems.

Family Portrait

Family Counseling

A healthy environment

It might be common to think to oneself, "I love you, but I don't like you right now."   Families are a source of protection, belonging, and community.  However, sometimes a person(s) in a family group don't realize the impact of his/her actions on the other.    In my practice, I create a safe and open environment in which needs, wants, concerns can be expressed and heard by each person to help develop more effective ways of approaching concerns.

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Individual Counseling

A Happier, Healthier You

Sometimes you might just feel "off."  This can be short lived, or it can drag on and on.    Maybe it is time to come in and allow me to help you dissect what the current and presenting problem(s) are and link them to the original source.   Honestly, the only way to be the most effective person, spouse, parent, co-worker is when you take care of yourself first.

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Couples Counseling

Effective tools to help hear one another 

It can be our life mission to find the "one" to spend the rest of our lives with.  It is what we do as we are wired to connect.  Sometimes in life, the ability to connect, communicate, and attach has been disrupted by earlier life experiences.   In my practice, I point out the ineffective ways of communicating needs, wants, desires.   You can expect to learn new ways of handling problems and complaints within one's most intimate relationships.

Contact Me

I love helping my clients develop the tools they need to cope with all of life’s challenges. Contact me today to learn more and book a session.

4410 S. Tennis Ln. Sioux Falls, SD 57106

605-307-9910

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