I am a passionate and compassionate psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, desiring to meet each person where they are with empathy and unconditional acceptance in a safe, secure, trusting, and supportive environment that invites honesty, growth, learning, and exploration.  My greatest joy is supporting, encouraging, witnessing, and celebrating others as they become who God created them to be.

I practice relationship-based, recovery-oriented, and psychodynamic-informed care. More simply stated, I believe recovery is possible and there is power in relationship as a vehicle for healing.  Becoming more aware of how our past experiences are connected to our current situation and mindset can unlock potential for change and move us from a place of surviving to truly thriving.

My spiritual gifts are encouragement, helping, mercy, service, and discernment. I am a wife and stepmother.  I enjoy reading, deep conversations, crocheting, exercising, playing piano, hunting, fishing, and spending time with family and close friends.

Areas of Interest: medication management, substance/alcohol use disorder, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, ADHD, individual and group psychotherapy, whole-person health, functional and integrative psychiatry, health promotion, disease prevention, and health coaching. Works with people of all ages.

Education & Experience:

Post-Master’s Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) – Maryville University
Master of Science (nursing) – South Dakota State University
Bachelor of Arts (nursing) – Concordia College
Parish Nurse Ministry Foundations – Concordia College
Nurse Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Fellowship – Finley Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner PLLC