PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy (Iowa State, ’04), MS in MFT (Purdue Calumet, ’98), BS in Psychology (BYU, ’94). Owner of Progressive Paths Therapy (Orem and SLC).
I work with individuals, couples, families, and groups, focusing on compassion, strengths, hope, values, meaning, cultural influence, vocation, growth, self-acceptance, emotion awareness, and effective communication. I love affirming the goodness in each person and relationship, and joining their journey toward understanding, hope, reconciliation, wholeness, and greater love.
My work is research-informed and held to the highest ethical standards. I specialize in:
• Mormon faith crises, transitions, and expansions; intersections of LDS/Mormon culture and mental health
• Couples, marriage, sex, and premarital therapy; Discernment Counseling
• Identity development and life transitions
• Adult growth and development (differentiation of self, interdependence, career/vocation)
• Problematic and out-of-control sexual behavior
• Anxiety and depression
• Emotion awareness, regulation, and emotional intimacy development
• Men’s issues
• Trauma/abuse recovery
• Family therapy (parent-teen, whole families, parent-adult child, intergenerational)
• Social justice-informed therapy addressing discrimination and systemic oppression
I draw on ACT, mindfulness, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems, differentiation of self (Bader/Finlayson-Fife), Gottman principles, Positive Psychology, Emotionally Focused Therapy, feminist, and decolonizing therapy ideas.
I’m a straight cisgender member of the LGBTQ Affirmative Therapists Guild of Utah, and a Board Member of Encircle Therapy (2019-present). I’m an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, AAMFT and UAMFT member, and President of the Mormon Mental Health Association (2019-2023, founding Board Member 2014-2019). I helped found the COAMFTE feminist, social justice-informed MS in Couple and Family Therapy at NDSU (2003-2006) discontinued in 2018.