“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” -Kahlil Gibran

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What if that were really true? What if your life can be on the pathway to looking and being radically different two weeks, six months, one year from today? What if we really do have more power over creating our future than we think?

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I believe that the work of therapy is to help you (re)discover your areas of greatest joy and to chart a path towards attaining a life of meaning, value, and purpose. To do that, however, requires us to lean into the pain and the sorrows. Rather than becoming distracted by a diagnosis, the aim is to figure out what is no longer working for you, and not become trapped in patterns that continue to result in pain and suffering. My goal, then, is to help you become un-stuck, choose your joys, and move freely, fully, and confidently into a life that matters.

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My formal education includes a BS from Grambling State, a MS in Marriage and Family Therapy from Fuller Theological Seminary, and a second masters degree and doctorate in psychology from the University of La Verne. I completed a nationally accredited pre-doctoral fellowship at the University of Memphis and a post doctoral fellowship at University Nevada, Reno. My research has focused on ways in which Black women often shift, altering aspects of their identity based on the contexts in which they sit at any given time. This has been an area that is near and dear to my heart, as I have been all to aware of my own shifting behavior and the toll it takes on our well-being. The scale I developed, the African American Women’s Shifting Scale, has been recognized in scientific literature and subsequently been adapted for Latin-x and Asian American women populations.

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