Our Team

I am the co-founder of HartWell Center, clinical leader in Occupational Therapy and therapeutic yoga instructor. I specialize in sensory processing and mental health, with diverse experience across the lifespan and continuum of care. 

I earned a clinical doctorate in occupational therapy from A.T. Still University, following a bachelor’s of science in rehabilitation studies and psychology from the University of North Texas. My registered yoga teacher training was completed with 8 Limbs Yoga in Seattle, WA, along with nearly 1000 hours of teaching experience and continuing education.

I have lectured in clinical graduate programs, authored publications, and spoken at conferences around the world on sensory processing, mental health, addiction and trauma. Through a strengths-based, trauma-informed lens, I am passionate about changing the paradigm in healthcare delivery to be more human-centered, holistic, and effective not only at reducing symptoms, but promoting health and wellbeing.

I want to be part of the change that heals our healthcare system; to be human-centered, holistic, and effective not only at reducing symptoms, but promoting health and wellbeing. I hope to bridge disparate schools of thought on mind and body, policy and practice to make a real-world impact on people who deliver and receive healthcare services.

My past professional experiences include: occupational therapy and coaching services, sensory room design and consulting, therapeutic yoga, and clinical education.

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor, a Certified School Counselor, and co-founder of the HartWell Center. I was the school counselor at Clear Fork Elementary in Lockhart, TX for six wonderful years prior to opening my private practice, and now HartWell. Before counseling, I was a bilingual elementary school teacher.

I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Bilingual Education from the University of Texas at Austin and my Master’s degree in Professional Counseling from Texas State University. I have post-graduate training in Child-Parent Relationship Therapy and Child-Teacher Relationship Training.

When working with children, I practice Child-Centered Play Therapy. When partnering with parents and caregivers, I work from a Humanistic and Solution-Focused framework. It is an honor to work with children and support them through their own unique healing process. Children are remarkable—almost magical— in their capability for growth and progress. I consider it my privilege to be a part of this chapter of their life.

I feel so grateful to serve and be a part of our Caldwell County community. I look forward to getting to know your family as we work together!

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 10 years of experience working in non-profit, community mental health, and integrative medical and behavioral health settings. My work is rooted in the knowledge that insight alone is not enough to support the healing and shifting of old, deep patterns. I am certified in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and I specialize in working with somatic and other experiential modalities to help folks move beyond verbal processing to support deeper understanding of stuck patterns, unmet needs, and inner strengths, wisdom, and capacities.

I am passionate about working collaboratively with people to better understand longstanding survival strategies, while holding space for the ways in which those strategies are no longer meeting the needs of the present. From this place of better understanding we can both accompany and heal old wounds, and build new pathways for managing difficulties and living more fully.

My approach is warm, collaborative, curious and creative. I balance creating enough safety to access patterns of the past, while staying rooted in the present in a way that opens the door for lasting change. While I believe in the power of the therapeutic relationship as a catalyst for healing, I do not take safety or trust for granted. Instead I work to build them with you over time, and at your own pace.