Compassionate Care
for
Lasting Recovery
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Virginia. I graduated from Grand Canyon University in 2011 with a bachelor in Addiction Counseling and began working with high-risk individuals with addictions during my years of undergraduate study. I went on to earn my “Master’s Degree in Professional Counseling” from Grand Canyon University in 2015.
I try to create a collaborative relationship between myself and the client. I have the belief that our thoughts are directly connected to how we feel. By working with clients to solve present-day problems it helps the client approach a stronger and healthier sense of self by focusing on the actual lived experience of a person. By helping clients gradually face and come to realize that their assumptions, evaluations and beliefs might be unhealthy and unrealistic. Having the client be aware even after they have learned to recognize when and where their mental processes have gone wrong, it can in some cases take considerable time or effort to replace a dysfunctional process or habit with a more reasonable and adaptive one.
My career over the last few years has been working as a Director of Addiction Recovery Services and providing outpatient counseling and therapy services to adults in 28 day Residential Programs, Partial Hospital Programs (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP).
I attribute my success to my 19 years in recovery, from which everything good in my life is a byproduct. I became involved in my profession because I am in recovery myself. I struggled with addiction for many years and did not graduate high school. At 16, I dropped out and did not return to school until I was 38 years old. I feel my most notable achievement is being in recovery. For someone who didn’t graduate high school, I have now earned a master’s degree, three state licenses and own my own business. I give other people hope by sharing my experience. My motto is “It’s never to late to be what you might have been.”