About
Hello Healed® is an exclusively online mental health private practice, specializing in the treatment of trauma and PTSD. Hello Healed™ was thoughtfully designed by me—a mother, wife, therapist, and friend just like you. I designed this space for people whose lives are complex—a space for people who find it almost impossible to fit one more thing in their schedule. I designed this space because I’m that person too. Many people are balancing things like travel, military moves, work, school, parenting, and illness. I’m here trying to balance life’s demands too. It’s not always easy and at times it’s absolute chaos. I understand that. My practice was developed specifically for those with a busy and complex lifestyle that need flexibility. With online therapy you get to prioritize your mental health online, over the phone, and on your terms. Online therapy is convenient, affordable, comfortable, and accessible. It’s the same support. It’s just on your couch and not mine.
Transformative
Transforming mental health and wellness by personalizing your experience. I deliver culturally-informed, integrative mental health therapy & wellness that is evidence-based and evidence-led—a whole person approach to treat psychological and mental conditions and challenges. An approach that transforms the mental, physical, spiritual, and social contexts to promote overall wellness.
Personalized
All services are personalized to reflect the whole person. Your healing journey will be tailored to fit you. Why is this so important? The answer is: Your past experiences, personal beliefs, and cultural background, are yours alone. They are personal to you. To dismiss these important influences would hinder your ability to understand why you think, feel, or behave the way you do. It makes changing habits almost impossible if dismissed. I don’t just use the here and now approach. While important, you can’t fully understand your here and now without first exploring what makes you, you. The connection between your past and you today is far too important not to explore. Your therapeutic experience will be tailored to you with consideration of your personal life experiences.
Accessible
Comfort.
Therapy and wellness services can be intimidating for some. If you have tried in-person services and felt uncomfortable due to the setting, our online options may be the solution. Telehealth or Virtual appointments make it possible to have an appointment wherever you are most comfortable.
Flexibility & Ease of Access.
Have you wanted to improve your overall well-being, but just can’t find the time to fit it into your schedule? Have you been dealing with illness that is proving to be a barrier to your ability to access in-person services and resources? I can help you with that. Online therapy & wellness services are perfect for individuals with a busy schedule and/or dealing with illness.
I designed this space for people whose lives are complex—a space for people who found it almost impossible to fit one more thing in their schedule. I designed this space because i’m that person too. Many people are balancing things like travel, military moves, work, school, parenting, and illness. I’m one of those people balancing life’s demands. It’s not always easy. I understand that. You can live a busy lifestyle and prioritize your mental health with online therapy. I understand the barriers and I’m changing that for others so you don’t have to choose. If you have time to hop online, I can meet you wherever you are.
Affordable.
My approach to therapy (and all things) is deeply intentional. I believe that as a collective we can no longer afford to ignore the significant cost of not addressing one of the primary reasons people are unable to access mental health care—financial inaccessibility. My fee-setting process is an intentional example of how I choose to invest and represent the collectiveness of humankind.
I work collaboratively with my clients throughout their time with me to ensure therapy is and stays accessible. I try to build relationships with my clients without any decision-making power given to external entities (like insurance companies). This is also the primary reason I made the decision to refrain from taking insurance and decided to implement a reduced fee approach for those that are experiencing financial hardship.
This means, I do have a standard rate for services, but I also offer wide flexibility according to what someone can reasonably afford.
Providing services to only those that can afford the full service fee doesn’t sit well me. I’ve worked passionately and aggressively to design and protect my vision of a more equitable practice that asks, “How can I help?” My reduced fee rate is set by a simple human-to-human conversation and determined in the initial consultation. This method is born from my personal values and ethics. My fee-setting process is an intentional example of how I choose to invest and represent the collectiveness of humankind.
I offer a reduced fee model when a person is experiencing financial hardship because I can’t provide effective mental health care without considering the whole person. That includes considering a client’s financial means to access and continue care. I hope to change the way that mental health is delivered. I understand mental health is complex. One of the reasons for the complexity, is individual circumstance.
Providing services to only those that can afford the full service fee doesn’t sit well me. I knew I couldn’t accept that as my only choice. I wasn’t “worth less” earlier in my life when I was paid less money, and I’m not “worth more” now just because I had the privilege to access education. So, when designing my practice, I paused. I looked through the lens of the whole person. I looked for gaps and then I closed them. My design allows for flexibility. Times will change over and over, and I’m prepared to respond to the impact those changes have on access to mental health care and I will continue to work to close the gap.
I’ve worked so hard to design and protect my vision of a more equitable and compassionate private practice.
This isn’t a self-sacrificing act of charity or philanthropy and I don’t see anyone else as being in need of my saving. But this is a choice I’m making to see the value in all of us, to see that we all need each other. This is my act of resistance against exploitation and being forcibly assigned a dollar value, and the refusal to accept that for anyone else, just the same.
I want to make mental healthcare more accessible. As a collective, we shouldn’t have to postpone a service that can protect our mental and/or physical health due to cost. A service that can potentially save a life.
Inclusive
I provide personalized & accessible services reflective and supportive of my client’s personal values, beliefs, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities, and abilities. My approach promotes flexibility, individuality, and inclusivity. I provide identity affirming and culturally responsive. mental health therapy & wellness.
Safe & Empowering
Thoughtfully designed to provide mental health services centered around providing a safe space where one is free from attack—a space where diversity, equity, inclusion, and representation are embraced. A space where people are respected, valued, free, and encouraged to be their authentic self. A supportive space for people to share their perspective knowing they will be heard. A space where people feel a sense of belonging.
It’s your right to advocate for your own health and wellness journey—to be heard, supported, and believed. You have the right to define your well.
I’m committed to delivering a space where people feel safe & comfortable enough to heal—a space where people can expand their perspective and be authentically themselves. I strive to engage in a way that is healing for the individual, the collective, and the environment.
Well Informed
Wellness is the holistic integration of your emotional, intellectual, social, spiritual, environmental, physical, and occupational well-being—the dimensions of the whole person.
Wellness is about healing emotional wounds, reconnecting and getting to know self, cultivating a life designed perfectly by you with your core values in mind, feeling aligned, & support and healing through collectiveness. Wellness is healing, protecting, and improving your relationship with self and others. Wellness is prioritizing your mental health—subsequently improving your overall well-being. Wellness is about healing & relinquishing stories of self that are limiting to your well.
Wellness is also:
Prioritizing your mental, physical, spiritual, and social well-being in a way that allows you to feel your best.
Following your own lead—allowing yourself to define your own wellness.
Responding to your mind, body, and spirit—responsive wellness.
Having the right to advocate for your own health and wellness journey—to be heard, supported, and believed.
I encourage you to advocate for your well—define your well. I will help you identify what that looks and feel like to you. My goal is to help you cultivate the well you envision for yourself. I want to help you become the best authentic version of you, alone and with others. I aim to provide a safe space that is inspirational, supportive, and transformative. I want to help you enhance your quality of life and reconnect with your vision of well. It’s important that you have a space where you feel safe & comfortable enough to heal—a space where you can expand your perspective, and be authentically yourself. i strive to engage in a way that is healing for the individual, the collective, and the environment.
Integrative
Certified in integrative mental health, I deliver mental health therapy through a holistic lens. This approach addresses the whole person and places my client at the center of their treatment plan vs. their diagnosis. It blends different therapeutic tools and approaches to fit the needs of the individual client. Using integrative therapies, I modify standard treatments to fill in developmental gaps that affect each client in different ways.
An integrative approach responds to the needs of the whole person. I merge elements of different psychological theories and modify standard treatments to promote flexibility and inclusivity.
I take a culturally-informed integrative approach that is evidence-based and evidence-led; because without considering the whole person, I can’t completely understand its complexities and without considering the research and evidence I can’t effectively treat them.
Evidence Based
Your therapeutic experience is evidence-based and evidence-led. That is, your therapeutic experience is based on studies that have been conducted and extensive research that has been documented, proven to be successful in the treatment of mental health conditions and challenges. The below psychological treatment methods are those I commonly pull from to address mental health conditions and challenges. Taking an integrative approach, I often weave multiple techniques from the below treatment methods to better assist you in meeting your desired goals.
Neuropsychotherapy uses neuroscience to integrate the brain into treatment. Different areas of the brain are involved in different symptoms. Using research in neuroscience, neuropsychotherapy targets functions at the neuronal level. Simplified, the mind, brain, and body are all connected and influence one another. Many structures and functions of the brain are plastic, with the potential for change. Neuroplasticity is the nervous system's ability to adapt and recover after traumatic events, allowing people to regain lost abilities. This process allows the brain to rewire itself and form new neural connections. Small changes repeated, frequently can rewire the brain and strengthen new neurons by creating new, healthy responses, overriding the wired-in responses caused by trauma. Essentially neuropsychotherapy is used to sever the link between past trauma and current responses.
Psychodynamic Therapy looks at your past to understand your present. This type of therapy is open ended, aiming to heighten self-awareness and self-empowerment. Psychodynamic Therapy is often used in the treatment of mental health conditions and challenges including depression, anxiety, trauma & PTSD, relationship issues, and adjustment challenges.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a fairly new, non-traditional for of psychotherapy. EMDR helps people process traumatic memories and other distressing experiences. It's considered an evidence-based treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). During EMDR a client focuses on a memory while simultaneously following a back-and-forth movement or sound. This repetitive eye movement helps client reprocess the memory and make it less painful. The goal is to help clients heal from trauma and other distressing experiences. EMDR is also utilized to treat anxiety, depression, pain, chronic illness, medical trauma, and grief.
Attachment Therapy helps to address some of the subconscious, lingering issues from your childhood that still impact your ability to form meaningful relationships as an adult. Attachment therapy assists clients in gaining a sense of security.
Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) is a short-term psychotherapy used for the treatment of PTSD and other trauma-related mental disorders. In NET, a written account of the traumatic experiences of an individual or group of people is documented. Narrations are helpful for people to re-process their memories of the past, particularly the trauma, and reorganize their thoughts; which should ultimately reduce the recurrence of bad memories that are responsible for the suffering of to the patient. NET assists those that have had traumatic experiences recapture self-respect and acknowledging the patient's value.
Trauma-Focused Therapy is a specific approach to therapy that recognizes and emphasizes understanding how the traumatic experience impacts mental, behavioral, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. This type of therapy is rooted in understanding the connection between the trauma experience and the emotional and behavioral responses. The purpose of trauma-focused therapy is to offer skills and strategies to assist in better understanding, coping with, processing emotions and memories tied to traumatic experiences, with the end goal of enabling an individual to create a healthier and more adaptive meaning of the experience that took place in their life.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on finding practical, skills-based solutions to present-day problems. CBT focuses on recognizing negative thought patterns and changing thoughts and behaviors and feelings through concrete skills. CBT is structured, and often includes homework assignments. CBT is often used in the treatment of anxiety and depression disorders and/or challenges.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) aims to help people who feel “stuck” in their thoughts about their trauma experience(s). CPT helps to challenge and change unhelpful beliefs about the trauma that are keeping an individual “stuck.” The aim is to help one understand and think differently about the event(s), thereby relieving the negative effects.
The Gottman Method aims to improve verbal communication, increase intimacy, increase respect, increase affection, remove barriers to conflict resolution and create more empathy and compassion within relationships.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a form of short-term therapy that aims to improve couple relationships by rekindling the physical and emotional bond that can get sacrificed to disappointment in a partner and alienation from them, a common dynamic in distressed couples. Drawing on research supporting attachment theory, the therapy regards the security of partner connection as the best lever for change in a dysfunctional relationship and a necessary source of both couple and individual growth. Love, in short, is transformative. Restoration of the emotional ties enables partners to be physically and psychologically open and responsive to each other so that they can construct a mutually supportive and satisfying relationship in the moment and for the future.
Stress Inoculation Therapy (SIT) is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy that helps you prepare for stressful situations before they happen. Stress inoculation therapy can help you understand your stressors and develop stress management skills. Stress inoculation training aims to help you better cope with stress, so it doesn’t further impact your physical and mental health. Stress Inoculation therapy helps those with Anxiety, Trauma, and PTSD manage stress-inducing situations. It is also used to prepare those who have a higher chance of developing PTSD, such as first responders and military personnel.