Thank you for taking the time to visit my website. I am a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor currently practicing online in my private practice, Therapy Dynamics PLLC. I started my practice in 2021 as a way to provide affordable, remote autism and ADHD assessments and therapy in Minnesota. In my practice, I provide quality assessments and work with people ages 13+ on life transitions, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and OCD. I also am engaged as a social skills coach helping autistic individuals to refine their social skills at IRL Social Skills. In my private practice, I work with autistic individuals who are struggling with depression and anxiety. I also help with relationship-building skills.

I earned my MS in Molecular Biology in 2001 and taught biology at my local university for several years.  All of that changed on December 15, 2005, when I was diagnosed with cancer while pregnant with my youngest child.  I was left to navigate my pregnancy with few resources.  As I grew stronger, I began volunteering for “Hope for Two”, an organization that provides support to women who are diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy.  Helping other women struggling to make decisions and cope with the diagnoses they had been given, left me asking if science was the direction that I wanted to continue to take my life in.  At the same time, my oldest child was diagnosed with autism. 

I began searching for resources for adolescents and discovered that there were few in our area.  My determination to develop resources and network with organizations providing help for autistic individuals fueled my interest in returning to graduate school to study counseling.  After completing my M.A. in counseling, I administered psychological assessments and counseled children, adolescents and adults with autism, depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, bipolar disorder, OCD, and selective mutism. I wrote neuropsychological assessments, diagnostic assessments, and letters of prior authorization from 2015-2020. After this, I worked on a project with the Minneapolis VA administering assessments online. When that project ended, I got involved with teaching social skills to autistic adolescents and young adults while starting my private practice.

I was a regular contributor to MDFamily magazine between 2000-2005; writing articles on parenting, marriage, finances, education, and medical training. In 2003, I wrote my first book, Surviving Residency. My other publishing credits include being featured in Medical Exchange magazine, and writing articles on motherhood for the St. Cloud Times between 2005-2008. My second book, A Rolling Stone Gathers no Moss was published in 2008.

Visit Therapy Dynamics to find out more about remote autism and ADHD assessments in Minnesota.