California State Licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT121912)
As a relationship expert, I utilize my extensive clinical training coupled with my own personal experiences of surviving interesting relational dynamics in helping my clients. You will discover what the gaps are in your relationship, while building the bridges to connect you on physical, emotional, and mental levels. This work is for the couple who is ready to confront their own unhealthy behaviors within relationships and lovingly step into healthy ways of loving and being loved.
During our sessions, you will learn skills to help you manage big emotions or tap into the ones that may get buried by fear or exhaustion. I use a beautiful blend of mindfulness activities that you can use inside and outside of our sessions together. With a deep knowledge of how our traumas impact our lives + loves, I am honored to help my clients create healing around their painful experiences – together and individually. As a therapist, I have strong boundaries and you will experience what it’s like to have a healthy balance between love and limits with your therapist. Working with me, you feel my openness and non-judgmental nature as well as my tender directness.
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I graduated from University of Phoenix, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services/Management. After receiving my Bachelors degree and working as a case manager in the field I felt a calling towards gaining a degree that would allow me to specialize in helping with relationships. I decided to take my personal experiences and implement them by helping others in my career choice. I felt like I found my calling in helping with difficult relational dynamics so I enrolled in Northcentral University Master program for Marriage and Family Therapy. I was an on-call rape crisis counselor and assisted trauma victims as a counselor for 4 years. 2013 to 2015 I was a case manager for a program that assists families and individuals with severe mental illness. I was able to write a housing program for LA county that assists board in care step down homes in making their programs more family oriented and understanding of individuals with mental illness as well as the importance of how individuals can grow with a more positive environment. I started working as an intern for the Department of Behavioral Health in San Bernardino County assisting families with coping with having a member who has mental illness. I was able to assist in developing this new program and in which our program received multiple awards for its impactful assistance to these families. I earned my Master’s Degree while working for a walk-in clinic treating ; children, teenagers, families and couples. Worked Full time as a clinician for walk in clinic for the county of San Bernardino for families, couples, individuals, teenagers and children. I accepted a part time clinic supervisor position for a group home for at risk teenagers and provide trauma based therapy. I accepted a supervisor position for my current walk in clinic for the children's team for the County of San Bernardino. I accepted the invitation to join The Happy Couple Experts of OC to work exclusively with couples and individuals. I was trained in relational life therapy to help both couples and individuals. I decided it was time to create my own practice and became the founder of “Your Love Story Expert” In 2007
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Outside of the therapy room, you can find me spending time with my husband and our three teenage children. Game nights are a regular occurrence in our house as is laughing at our fave family tv show, Impractical Jokers. My husband and I are intentional about dating one another, as we know just how important it is to cultivate a healthy intimacy as a couple outside of our role as parents. Now that you’ve gotten to know me a bit, I am very much looking forward to getting to know you + helping you create the relationship you deeply desire + deserve.