You are not the problem. The problem is the problem. I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate in Tacoma, and I focus on substance use, relationship challenges, and the patterns trauma and family history can leave behind long after the original event has passed.

I use Narrative Therapy, which treats the stories people tell about themselves as something that can be re-authored rather than fixed, and Structural Family Therapy, which looks at the roles and boundaries within a family system, to spend real time looking at how those patterns took shape in the first place, not just naming them and moving on. It's work I take seriously rather than treating as a side note to other issues.

I'm supervised by Margaret MacLeod, LMFT, an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, and every case I carry is reviewed under that credentialed oversight. I work with individuals, couples, and families, and I bring the same structural lens to a single person's relationship with substances as I do to a whole family's patterns. And while recovery work is the focus I name loudest, plenty of people come to me with none of that in the picture: family patterns, relationship strain, or a stuck season that Narrative work is simply good at.

If you're in Tacoma or anywhere in Washington working through substance use or family patterns, individually or as a couple, and you want training specific to that rather than a generalist approach, that's my lane.

Whenever you're ready, even if ready feels shaky, the intake form is the first step. If substance use is part of what's bringing you in, know that this is a primary focus for me, not an issue I'll refer out or work around. I try to hold that work without shame or lecture, since neither of those actually helps someone change a pattern that took years to form. I'm supported by real, credentialed oversight while I build toward full licensure, so you're not getting a lesser version of the training on this roster, just an earlier stage of it.