About Me

For 30+ years I have worked as a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) and Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC). Besides EMDR certification, I also hold certificates in Somatic Experiencing (SEP), Dynamic Attachment Reprocessing Experience (DARE), Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy (EXA). I relished teaching expressive arts therapy at Omega Institute, Wake Forest University, Appalachian State University, and the University of San Simon in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Recently, I worked for 12 years as an attachment-based, body-centered, trauma therapist at The Mood Treatment Center and now use the many skills learned during these years to offer sessions in my private practice office here in Winston Salem, NC. Besides using evidence-based approaches to therapy, I am a decades-long meditator in the mindfulness traditions and have completed Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) as well as four three-year trainings in mindful awareness, mindful yoga, and lovingkindness practices at The Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California. At present the community of Soulmaking Dharma teachers and practitioners consistently ignite the poetry of my perception with respect to the whole experience of being, including finding beauty and meaningfulness as we relate to the ways humans suffer. It is my honor to facilitate gentle recovery from early attachment wounds in childhood, and from loneliness, addiction, anxiety, and depression. My underlying intention is to be grounded and present in my own heart so as to open the space for my patients to dip their toes and then dwell in the compassionate self-acceptance, contentment and well-being that can empower their journey into wholeness. To that end, I have had the joy to assist all levels of Diane Poole Heller's DARE Attachment trainings. For the past 28+ years I've taught Mindfulness and Heartfulness practices along with Hatha Yoga – as a 200hr yoga instructor - to a beautiful and diverse community of drama students in the School of Drama, at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where I foster creativity and belonging. My marriage of 30 years, enduring friendships, devotion to my anti-racist community and goddess circle, a blessed life-with-cats and utter delight in the wildlife in my backyard, plus spiritually engaging in living interdependence with earth and cosmos ~ all these sustain me day by day. In my private in-person and telehealth practice with Spirithorse Psychotherapy 336 624.8253, sessions are not covered by insurance.