I love adventure and traveled the country coast-to-coast with my husband and our four girls in our minivan for a year. I love finding ways to incorporate beauty into everday moments and keep fresh flowers on my kitchen table most days. I think it would be a good idea for water skiing to be an olympic sport and I love to haul wood in my backyard while my two dogs – a huge one and a tiny one – run around me. I tend to laugh and smile the most behind the boat tubing, during dance parties, playing a fun game like Kuub or around the table with close family and friends and delicious food. I like to challenge myself to learn something new, like tennis or cross-country skiing, and I don’t mind looking a bit silly while I’m doing it.

I love Jesus and believe that it is relationship, not religion, that redeems our hurts, anger, unforgiveness and illusions. My faith informs the work that I do, and you can choose how and when and if this plays a part of our time together. I believe in grace for ourselves and for others. We all have equal value and a voice worthy to be heard. It’s ok to make mistakes. I love working with young adults to help them create a courageous life characterized by kindness to themselves and others.

I have an undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota Duluth in Interpersonal Communication and a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Bethel University. After passing the National Clinical Mental Health Counseling Exam and as a pre-licensed practitioner, I have the privilege of sitting at wisdom tables of my own with many colleagues and a direct supervisor, as I pursue my LPPC license.