I work at the intersection of faith, trauma, and healing.
I'm a licensed therapist based in Phoenix, Arizona, specializing in religious trauma, spiritual abuse, faith deconstruction, and purity culture recovery. My clinical work is grounded in EMDR, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT/EFIT), and somatic awareness — approaches that are evidence-based, relationally attuned, and built for the kind of complex, layered wounds that faith-based harm tends to leave.
I see clients in person in Phoenix and via telehealth across Arizona.
Why this work
There's a particular kind of disorientation that comes with religious harm. It's not just that something hurt you — it's that the framework you used to make sense of everything was part of what caused the harm. Clients navigating that experience often arrive having already tried to minimize it, explain it away, or find a version of the story that makes the people involved look less responsible than they were.
I didn't come to this work from the outside. I understand faith systems — their language, their logic, their pull, and the specific ways they can go wrong. That understanding shapes how I listen, what I notice, and how I work.
My goal isn't to guide you toward any particular conclusion about faith, belief, or the community you came from. It's to create a space where the full truth of your experience is welcome — and where your next steps belong to you.
Clinical Training & Credentials
EMDR — Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
A research-supported trauma therapy that helps the brain process and integrate distressing memories, reducing their ongoing emotional impact.
EFT & EFIT — Emotionally Focused Therapy / Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy
Developed by Dr. Sue Johnson and rooted in attachment science, EFT helps people understand and reshape the emotional patterns and relational cycles that keep them stuck. I am a member of ICEEFT — the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy — the global professional home for EFT-trained clinicians.
Religious Trauma Institute — Continuing Education
Specialized clinical training with direct focus on the clinical treatment of religious trauma.
Mending the Soul — Trained Facilitator & Former Director of Communications
is a nonprofit dedicated to healing for survivors of abuse — including sexual, physical, emotional, and spiritual abuse. I am a trained facilitator in their evidence-informed group healing curriculum, and served as Director of Communications from 2021 to 2022, supporting survivor outreach, organizational visibility, and resource development.
Beyond the therapy room
My clinical work has led me toward a larger question I'm now pursuing professionally: what would it look like if our field had a coherent theoretical framework for understanding and treating religious trauma — one that could shape how therapists are trained, how churches understand their own dynamics, and how survivors are seen?
That question drives two parallel tracks of work alongside my therapy practice:
Church Consultation & Training — I consult with faith organizations and pastoral teams working to become more trauma-informed, helping them understand how trauma operates in congregational life and how to build cultures of genuine care.
Writing & Framework Development — I'm developing a theoretical contribution to the clinical understanding of religious trauma, and writing about what the field — and the church — has gotten wrong, and right, along the way.
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