About Me

Let me tell you a little about who I am and how I work, because I think it matters.

I am a licensed professional counselor with graduate training, clinical experience, and training in Biblical Counseling. I am licensed to provide professional counseling in Illinois and Missouri.

Because licensure is state specific, I also offer Christian Coaching for anyone outside of those states. Coaching is not clinical therapy. It does not involve diagnosis or treating mental health disorders. It focuses on personal growth, biblical wisdom, mindset renewal, spiritual direction, and practical life application — through a Christian lens.

Here is what I want you to know about how I work: I am not the kind of counselor who sits across from you and says, "So how does that make you feel? What do you think you should do next?" I believe God has answers, and I want to go there with you. That means we open the Bible. We talk about who God is, what He says about you, and how He designed people to actually live. The goal is not just temporary relief from hard emotions or hard circumstances. It is real growth that is spiritual focusing upon maturity, emotional stability, and living in alignment with truth.

Most people come to me because of anxiety, loneliness, relationship pain, confusion, or just a general sense that something is off. What I have learned over 27 years of doing this work is that the struggles on the surface almost always go deeper. So I ask questions like:

• Who is God — really?

• What do you actually believe about yourself, and where did that come from?

• What is driving your emotions, choices, and behaviors?

• Where are you finding your identity, your hope, your meaning?

The Bible is clear that people were created first and foremost for relationship with God. And I have seen over and over that so many struggles like anxiety, people pleasing, fear, broken relationships tracing back to fear, shame, wounds, false beliefs, or simply not knowing who God is. That is not a judgment. That is just what I have observed.

I want to be upfront with you: you do not need to know the Bible well to work with me. You do not need to have it all together. Questions are welcome. Honesty is welcome. What I do want to be clear about is this — God and His Word are not going to be an add-on here. They are the foundation. That’s just how I work.

Some of what we may cover together:

• Learning healthier ways to manage anger and emotional reactions

• Identifying thought patterns and false beliefs

• Understanding how past experiences are shaping present struggles

• Building practical relational and social skills

• Developing healthy community

• Exploring what Scripture says about identity, relationships, purpose, and emotional healing

• Getting to know who God actually is (Because that changes everything!)

My fee is $150 per session.

I typically suggest starting weekly for about a month, then moving to twice monthly while continuing to apply what we are working on between sessions. The real growth happens in the daily practice in between session, not just in the session.

I look forward to walking this with you. When you understand who God is, where He is, and who He says you are, there is no circumstance or trial you cannot get through.

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