About
About Me
My life has revolved around wildlife for as long as I can remember. My father took my sister and me camping, hiking, and fishing from an early age. Conservation was woven into everything we did outdoors. That early love of wild, undeveloped places, and of animals both wild and domestic, shaped the direction of my education long before it shaped my career.
I earned my undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University in 2012, majoring in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, concentrating in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, with a minor in psychology. I helped a graduate student research Dune Sagebrush lizards and later joined AmeriCorps' American Conservation Experience, working on habitat restoration, trail building and maintenance, and fuels management. Before graduate school, I worked as a field biologist for an environmental consulting firm, managing construction sites to relocate and protect local wildlife — most notably an endangered species of desert tortoise.
Wildlife biologist to therapist isn't an obvious line to draw. The shift started at the consulting firm. The longer I worked there, the clearer it became that the values driving the projects didn't align with my own values.
That experience redirected me. I realized how much I valued supporting the people struggling around me, so I enrolled in the master's-level Clinical Mental Health Counseling program at Sam Houston State University, graduating in 2018. Throughout the program, one goal stayed constant: finding a way to bring therapy and nature together.
After graduating in 2018, I moved back to the West Coast, where I felt like I truly belonged and could better integrate nature into my practice.
Since then, I've pursued specialized training in CBT, EMDR, ERP, and Ecotherapy, so I can bring a well-rounded, evidence-based toolkit to the people I work with. Whichever approach fits your situation, that goal from graduate school is now the work I do. I'd love to help you use the healing power of the natural world alongside focused, goal-oriented therapy.
Ready when you are
Schedule a consultation and let's start this journey together.