My Credentials
Experience You Can Count On
June 2019- present
Private Practice
Licensed Independent Social Worker, Licensed Addiction Counselor, Master Addiction Counselor in private practice. Currently serving adolescent and adults challenged with depression, anxiety, substance use disorder and trauma.
April 1999- May 2019
Program Coordinator
Served as the Clinical Program Coordinator for the Prisma Health (formerly Palmetto Health) Adolescent Recovery Center. Lead therapist and clinical supervisor for program therapist. Provided individual, family and group therapy to adolescents and their families. Facilitated clinical program development of mental health and substance use disorder partial hospitalization programs and intensive outpatient programs.
September 2016- May 2019
Psychotherapist at Jill Smith and Associates
Provided individual and family therapy to adolescents and adults as a contract therapist with Jill Smith and Associates
My Story
Over the past 25 years I have worked as a licensed social worker and addiction counselor in Columbia and Lexington areas of South Carolina specializing in working with adolescents and adults who experience depression, anxiety, substance use and trauma. As I have grown as a clinician, my paradigm shifted from what is wrong to what has happened to an individual to make them suspectible to specific challenges. I continue to be an active learner seeking to further my skill set to provide clients with the best therapy for the best results.
I am a trained EMDR therapist, Advanced BLAST Practitioner, Certified Hypnotherapist and HeartHealing™️ Practitioner. I have an array of strategies that will help you address your needs. Let's talk and see how you and I can take a healing journey that helps you become the best version of yourself. You are worth it!