Providers

“I believe therapy is a collaborative effort between the client and therapist. While a person may know what they want, they may not understand how to change. My role as a therapist is to create a safe environment through compassion and non-judgment so that a person can talk about past hurtful events. By confidently talking through the past, a person gains an understanding of what needs to change to create the life they want to be living.”

“Ironically, those of us who have suffered the most in this life are uniquely qualified to create and appreciate an existence bursting with joy, contentment, and unbelievable abundance. Because we have survived such painful depths of darkness, we are now exceptionally prepared to thrive in the bright light of what life truly has to offer.”

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The most important step a person can take is always the next one.”

-Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Everyone loses their way at some point, and it’s not just because of their mistakes or the decisions they make. It’s because they’re horribly, wonderfully human. And the one thing I’ve learned about being human is that we can’t do this alone. When we’re lost, we need help to try to find our way again.”

― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“What is to give light must endure burning.” 

-Victor Frank

“We’re all just walking one another home.”

-Ram Dass

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”

– Dolly Parton

“I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing.”

~Daniel Hillel

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren’t any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how beautiful that glint of water was through the trees.”

― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

Rising from failure: “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

– Nelson Mandela

“In the sea of life, pain is a tide that will ebb and weave, continually. We need to learn how to let it wash over us, without drowning in it. Our life doesn’t have to end where the pain begins, but rather, it is where we start to mend.”

– Jaeda DeWalt

If you can’t say something good about someone, sit here by me.

-Alice Roosevelt

“A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.”

-St Francis of Assisi

“In my early professional years I was asking the question, How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?”

– Carl Rogers

“Understanding why people suffer, how they change, and how to help them live satisfying lives is a fascinating and important undertaking.”

– Sommers-Flanagan

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us”

– Gandalf

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”

– Frida Kahlo

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”

– Pema Chödrön

“One of the cardinal features of cognitive therapy is that it stubbornly refuses to buy into your sense of worthlessness.”

– David Burns

“Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.”

– Brené Brown

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own… You do not blame them on anyone else.”

-Albert Ellis

“I’m always amazed at the creativity and resilience revealed in the counseling relationship, and I enter into it with immense gratitude! The stories we craft and those which we learn hold the potential to provide great strength or cause us to lose sight of what really matters to us. It is my goal as a counselor to be an ally in the exploration of what truly fits for my clients and to examine how thoughts, language, emotions, and actions either move us toward our authentic selves or cause us to feel stuck. I love working with individuals, couples and groups! I look forward to sharing space with you as we explore how you are creative, not created!”

“Real change happens on the level of the gesture. It’s one person doing one thing differently than he or she did before. It’s the man who opts not to invite his abusive mother to his wedding; the woman who decides to spend her Saturday mornings in a drawing class instead of scrubbing the toilets at home; the writer who won’t allow himself to be devoured by his envy; the parent who takes a deep breath instead of throwing a plate. It’s you and me standing naked before our lovers, even if it makes us feel kind of squirmy in a bad way when we do. The work is there. It’s our task. Doing it will give us strength and clarity. It will bring us closer to who we hope to be.”

— Cheryl Strayed

“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.”

– Thomas Merton

“We know from experience and the growing body of supportive literature … that the therapeutic relationship a counselor forms with each client can be the most powerful tool for helping clients change.”

– Jeff & Nancy Cochran

“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above…, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. … [T]he thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes.”

– Carl Jung

“The truth is, bad things don’t affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That’s true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.”

–Daniel Gilbert

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

-Carl Rogers

“Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which ones to surf.”

– Jonatan Martensson

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you”

~Maya Angelou

“I believe in providing a therapeutic space of safety, trust, respect, and compassion so that my clients can do the therapy that will restore them to wellness and peace in their heart, mind, and body.”

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

-Oscar Wilde

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

– Rumi

“It seems to me that the good life is not any fixed state … The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.”

– Carl Rogers

“Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.”

– Alfred Adler