Our Therapy

People struggle with a variety of life circumstances. Those that we have the most experience with are: Anxiety, Depression, Grief and Loss - both in actual death and ambiguous loss, Traumatic Life events and experiences (EMDR), Family of Origin challenges, OCD, Infertility and Family Planning burdens, Parenting young children and teens, Navigating adolescent years with teenagers, Couples Counseling (Gottman Method). 

Therapists use: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Schema Therapy, Mindfulness practices, Gottman Method Couples Counseling (look them up - they're phenomenal), Trauma - Informed, Attachment Theory, Internal Family Systems Theory, and Cognitive Processing.

Life Coaches: Certified in Grief, Trauma, Mental Health First Aid and Biblically-based life coaching.  

I graduated with my Master's in Counseling Psychology in 2013.  For the last 7 years, I have been working in private practice as an individual, couples and adolescent therapist. Prior to that my experience includes supervising Master's level interns in a Counseling Psychology Graduate school and being an adoptions coordinator and supervisor for 4 years. Throughout my life I've spent years volunteering with adolescents in a high school youth program as well as at overnight summer camp programs. 

After graduating from Moody Theological Seminary with both a Master's in Divinity and Master's in Counseling Psychology, Kris has had the opportunity to serve as a Pastor in churches overseeing counseling ministries, as a Chaplain at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and became certified in Grief, Crisis and Trauma work. For the last year Kris has focused on reaching people through Life Coaching while maintaining full-time work in higher Education. Additionally, Kris has worked for the National Suicide Crisis Center, has an international life coaching certificate to offer tele-coaching to people from across the country and is Mental Health First Aid certified.

As a private pay practice your treatment is coordinated by your wants and needs as well as your therapist's recommendations. Billing outside of insurance allows you more freedom to choose what you want to focus on in therapy. Your treatment is not dictated by a diagnosis. You can attend therapy as often as you would like. You retain greater privacy.  You hold the ability to consult on non-psychiatric issues that are important to you that aren’t billable by insurance, such as learning how to cope with life changes, matters of faith that are important to you, gaining more effective communication techniques for your relationships, examination of core etiologies, and developing healthy new skills.  Our fees are competitively stated in our Office Policies.