Services
Services are offered online and in person in West Chester, Pennsylvania
At Rise & Renew, services are designed to meet you where you are—emotionally, relationally, and physically. Therapy is collaborative and paced with care, prioritizing safety before exploration and honoring your story, values, and lived experience. Whether you are navigating betrayal, recovery, or a major life transition, the work focuses on restoring self-trust, regulation, and a sense of wholeness.
Treatment Specialties
Trauma-Informed Therapy
Trauma affects the mind, body, emotions, relationships, and sense of meaning. A trauma-informed approach recognizes that many coping strategies developed to protect you during overwhelming experiences. Therapy is structured to avoid re-traumatization, prioritizing safety, choice, collaboration, and pacing so healing can unfold in a sustainable way.
Betrayal Trauma & Partner Impact
Betrayal by a partner can feel like an attack on your identity, sense of safety, and reality itself. This work supports individuals navigating the aftermath of intimate betrayal, including hypervigilance, confusion, shame, grief, and spiritual wounding. Therapy focuses on stabilizing the nervous system, rebuilding self-trust, and helping you clarify next steps—whether that involves relational repair or personal healing. I work alongside trusted colleagues to facilitate formal therapeutic disclosures when needed.
Women in Recovery
Recovery involves more than changing behaviors—it involves restoring agency, boundaries, and self-worth. This work supports women navigating substance recovery, relational recovery, or identity repair after long periods of self-abandonment. Therapy centers on resilience, self-compassion, and rebuilding trust in yourself.
Life Transitions & Identity Shifts
Major transitions—relationship changes, career shifts, moves, or changes in faith—can disrupt your sense of stability. Therapy offers space to orient to the present, process grief or uncertainty, and intentionally shape what comes next with clarity and grounded support.
Spiritual & Religious Wounding
For some, trauma carries a spiritual dimension that leads to questioning beliefs that once brought comfort. With a foundation in both clinical social work and seminary study, this work honors your values while gently exploring how belief systems, relationships, and lived experience intersect in both harm and healing.
Couples & Relationship Therapy
Couples work draws from research-based interventions to improve communication, restore intimacy, and strengthen friendship. Therapy supports partners in navigating conflict, rebuilding trust, and creating shared meaning and goals—whether repairing a relationship or understanding how to move forward with clarity and respect.
How I Help
Trauma Informed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TI-CBT)
This treatment approach is an evidence-based form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) developed to help people change their thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors in order to make their lives better. Using trauma-informed CBT, I will be your guide and allow you to set the pace as you develop new thoughts and beliefs about the trauma you’ve experienced. As a result, many of my clients learn to manage behaviors, thoughts, and emotions that are triggered by past or current overwhelming experiences and experience healing through the understanding what caused the trauma, accepting that it happened, and finding new meaning from the experience. As a result, clients report that they gain the ability to respond differently to painful emotions and memories.
Faith Based Counseling
Grounded in the belief that true healing encompasses the mental, emotional, relational and spiritual I pursued theological studies toward a Master of Divinity while completing my graduate education at Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work. My own (Christian) faith has been instrumental in helping me navigate life’s hurts and losses and informs my commitment to holistic mental health treatment. I collaborate with clients to integrate their spiritual and religious frameworks into therapy in ways that support resilience, meaning-making, and connection with their Higher Power.
Gottman Method
With couples, this approach uses research-based tools drawn from decades of study to strengthen friendship, manage conflict, and deepen emotional connection. Sessions include practical strategies that can be applied outside the therapy room.
Relational & Talk Therapy
Therapy is not about fixing you. It is about creating a supportive, collaborative relationship where your experience is respected and your strengths are recognized. Through conversation, curiosity, and connection, space is created for insight, meaning-making, and change.
Attachment-Focused EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing)
AF-EMDR therapy differs from traditional EMDR by placing a strong emphasis on the therapeutic relationship, prioritizing the understanding and repair of early attachment issues, and forming healthier relational patterns.
