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    As a relationship expert with ten years of experience, I help individuals, couples, and families gain a better understanding of themselves and their relationships. As a Christian counselor, I aim to share God’s love with each of my clients while also highlighting the fact that His love is the most important aspect of their interactions with others. As we work together, we will address the challenges that are interfering with the kind of relationships you want and help you develop tools and take steps that will lead to peaceful, healthy, satisfying, and rewarding relationships.

  • Understanding Codependent Behavior: Signs and How to Move Beyond Codependency

    One of the more challenging ideas to understand in the Christian faith is the concept of freedom. The apostle Paul wrote that, “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” (Galatians 5:1, NIV) This freedom is from sin and from the behaviors, attitudes, and mindsets rooted in it. Codependent behavior is one set of patterns that many people need freedom from. [...]

  • Christian Couples Counseling to Work Through Loss

    Life comes with its fair share of challenges, and every couple will face these in their relationship. In the vows that a couple makes as they commit to each other, there is usually a line about remaining steadfast through the lean seasons, when things get hard, “in sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer”. Such a vow is a huge undertaking, but it’s a sober reminder that challenges will come, and they’ll be hard to weather. One [...]

  • Therapy for Anger Management: Finding Your Path to Emotional Well-being

    Many things are good and helpful in moderation, but bad and destructive in excess. One of those things is anger, which is a natural human emotion that we’ve all felt at one point or another in our lives. Maybe you last got angry when you felt that the wrong politician got voted in, or when someone was late to a meeting and didn’t apologize, or when your children sassed you. Whatever the occasion, we’ve all felt anger in one [...]

  • Overcoming Teen Depression

    Typical teenage behavior can confuse even the most knowledgeable parent. Behaviors such as the teens wanting more private time at home, wanting to hang out with friends more than their family, or they might stay up all night on Friday night playing video games, only to sleep until Saturday afternoon. None of those behaviors alone are necessarily bad for your teen. But when does seemingly normal teen behavior become a serious problem? How can you tell if your child [...]