I am a social worker (Registration # 840494) and owner at Mind 2 Heart. I have been working in the field of childhood trauma with children, families and adults for more than 20 years. I was a treatment foster parent for over 20 years and this lived experience has been the foundation for my work. This business was born out of my passion and commitment to understand how to help children heal those spaces in-side of them that have interfered with their ability to love and be loved. 

I bring to my practice what I learned in my journey through returning to school to complete a life long goal of graduate school but more importantly I bring what many children and families have taught me about living and loving hurt and traumatized children. Children need security and commitment to heal. We all heal within relationships, relationships in therapy, in families and in communities. 

As my young teachers (my 7 neurodiverse children) have grown so has my need to seek new information regarding neurodiversity. Mind 2 Heart is born from a place of embracing neurodiversity and all that we are now learning about the brain.  

Client Focus: Child, youth, adults and family

Types of Therapy: Developmental Dyadic Psychotherapy, CBT, exposure therapy, Attachment therapy, trauma therapy, Safe and Sound Protocol, NMT, Brain based approaches to trauma, neuroaffirming 

Areas of Focus: Childhood trauma, trauma, anxiety, depression, pregnancy and infant loss, infertility, adoption, divorce and separation, grief

More than just my work:  When I am not working, or parenting you can find me near the water. I love to spend time in nature and in quiet spaces.