Hi I’m Tree! I am a graduate student pursuing a Master of Education in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Lindsey Wilson University, with an expected graduation date of December 2025. I earned a Bachelor of Science in Family and Consumer Science Education and a Master of Arts in Secondary Education from Eastern Kentucky University, graduating with a 4.0 in May of 2018. I was a high school teacher for 3 years where I taught Relationships, Parenting, Child Development, and Life Skills to teens. I left the public school setting to be an in home teacher for neurodivergent students with autism and ADHD where I developed individualized curriculum for each student. During this time, I dove into learning as much as I could about autism and ADHD from a neuro affirming perspective, which eventually fueled my drive to work in clinical mental health. As a neurodivergent counselor, I take a neuroaffirmative and multicultural approach to therapy utilizing constructivist theory. I view clients as active participants in the construction of their personal stories. I help clients explore how societal norms, family dynamics, and life experiences have shaped their personal stories about self worth, competence, and authenticity. I support clients in deconstructing harmful or limiting beliefs in these stories and rewriting them from a more compassionate and neuroaffirmng understanding of themselves. I also incorporate aspects of art therapy, play therapy, CBT, DBT, person centered therapy, and feminist theory. My free time is most often spent with my neurodivergent family including my life partner and 2 teens. Our home is mostly a space for creativity and one of us is always working on some sort of project. My partner and I enjoy playing Yu-Gi-Ho! with Avatar or Dragon Riders playing in the background. I’m team Marvel, he’s DC, the 2 teens are still undecided. I also enjoy sewing and making most of my own clothes.
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