LMFT

I specialize in complex trauma and recovery from coercive control — including high-demand religious groups, cults, and relationships that operated on the same mechanics. Much of my work is with people who left and then found that leaving was the easier part.

Clinically, I use EMDR for trauma processing and the Gottman Method with couples. I also use Dr. Steven Hassan's BITE Model as a framework for understanding what happened, because naming the structure of control tends to do something that general trauma language can't — it separates what was done to you from what you concluded about yourself.

Where I differ from some trauma therapists: I don't treat your spiritual life as the problem to be resolved. For many people leaving a high-control group, the loss of a genuine relationship with the sacred is its own grief, tangled up with the harm. You're welcome to sort out what you still believe, what you never believed, and what you want to keep — or to leave that question entirely alone. That's yours to decide, not mine.

I'm licensed in Washington and Idaho, and see clients in person in Chattaroy or by secure telehealth throughout both states.