Frequently Asked Questions
Where is your office?
The address is:
100 Centre on the Lake
Lake Saint Louis, MO 63367
How long are sessions?
Sessions are typically 50 minutes long.
With whom do you work?
My specialty is helping girls and women navigate life’s transitions with greater confidence and clarity. I also work with clients of all ages and genders who are experiencing grief, depression, anxiety, and other challenging seasons of life.
Infertility is one of my specialties, and it holds a particular kind of grief, one that’s often invisible to the people around you and easy to feel isolated in. Whether you’re in the middle of trying, facing a loss, or grieving a path that didn’t unfold the way you hoped, this is a space where that grief gets to be fully felt and fully honored, without anyone rushing you past it.
I offer a compassionate, faith-informed approach that helps clients gain clarity, process difficult experiences, and move forward with greater confidence and hope.
I have a client-centered approach that draws from CBT, Trauma-Informed Guilt Reduction therapy, IFS, narrative therapy, and EMDR. Sessions are tailored to what each client needs, rather than a one-size-fits-all method.
Other Areas of Focus:
Spiritual Healing
Sometimes pain isn’t just emotional or physical, it’s spiritual. A loss of faith, a falling-out with a community you once belonged to, a sense that you’ve been disconnected from something larger than yourself. This work makes space for those questions without rushing you toward answers. We go at the pace your soul actually needs.
Healing from Moral Injury
Moral injury happens when something you did, witnessed, or couldn’t prevent goes against your own deepest sense of right and wrong, and it doesn’t heal the way ordinary stress does. It can leave behind shame, guilt, or a quiet loss of trust in yourself. This work helps you make sense of what happened, hold yourself with more compassion, and find your way back to who you are.
Values Clarification
When you don’t know what to do next, it’s often because you’ve lost touch with what actually matters to you. Together, we identify your core values, not the ones you think you should have, but the ones that are truly yours, so the next step becomes clearer, and less like guesswork.
Building Self-Esteem, Brick by Brick
Self-esteem isn’t rebuilt overnight or with a single insight. It’s rebuilt slowly, one honest brick at a time. This work is steady, practical, and paced to how you grow, not how fast you wish you could.
Wherever you’re starting from, whether you already know exactly what you need or you’re just beginning to put words to something that’s been sitting heavy, reach out. We’ll figure out the right next step together.
What does a typical session of therapy look like?
Each person has different goals for therapy, so it will be different depending on your needs.
Our time meeting together can be short-term or longer-term, depending on your needs and goals for either specific issues or more ingrained patterns and personal development.
Therapy is a process of learning, understanding, and developing awareness. Often, we will uncover your Myers Briggs or DISC personality profile to help identify underlying motivations and triggers, as well as strengths and areas of growth.
Will you give me homework?
Sometimes. If it will help you in taking your next best step, I will encourage you to do certain activities or watch for certain thought/behavior patterns.
Do you take insurance?
Yes, I take Aetna, BCBS, Carelon, United Healthcare/Optum, UHC commercial and marketplace (GEHA, Surest, AllSavers), Meritain, and Cigna. I accept most FSA and HSA debit cards.
Will you browbeat me with the Bible?
That would be awkward for both of us.
Should I wear waterproof mascara?
This depends on how dangerously you like to live.
Does anyone cry in front of you?
Yes. Sometimes I cry, too. Crying is one of my spiritual gifts.