Build Your Life on Solid Ground.

This might be your experience:

You try too hard to stay on track.

You feel like there are times when things get better, but they are short lived and the crash is debilitating.

You think that if you could just do more, think more positively, eat better, work out more, get a better job…. then it would all get better.

You work yourself to the bone to create balance yet nothing ever feels easy.

You need a new point of view because you can’t “think” your way out of these feelings.

You find it much easier to help others than to help yourself.

You find yourself constantly caught up in numbing behaviors (scrolling, binging eating, drinking, smoking, using.)

You just can’t let go…

If this is you, we understand.

We are here to help.

Welcome to Solid Ground Counseling

We are a small, local private practice in Deland, Florida with a focus on making therapy affordable and accessible. We accept a variety of insurance plans and offer affordable rates so that cost is not a barrier. Our team of highly trained therapists specialize in:

  • Our team uses multiple techniques to help you better understand and integrate your traumatic experience, reducing symptoms and improving your quality of life.

  • We understand the pain, guilt, and isolation that can be a part of the very real joy of raising children. You should not feel stuck, ashamed, or alone if you are struggling. Therapy can help ease the strain of this period and teach coping skills to manage this joyous and stressful time.

  • Our practice aims to work with and address addictions of all kinds. This may be addiction to drugs/alcohol, shopping, gaming, eating, or relationships. If you struggle to stop or moderate a behavior, our practice is here to help.

  • Depression feels like a deep pit that is impossible to escape. The more you try to get out, the more tired you feel and the less you can fight it. Our therapists aim to be the lifeline that joins you in the despair and helps you find your way out.

  • Does constant worry consume your life? Do you feel like you are always waiting for the other shoe to drop? You do not have to accept feeling that life is always a step away from disaster. Our team is here to help you create a plan to manage your anxiety.

  • Getting a Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder can be life altering and it is hard to know how to get things on track. Our team can help you better understand your moods, triggers, and the nature of the disorder. You don’t have to be blown about by every mood shift. You can learn to manage your moods and take back your life.

How to Get Started

  • Step 1

    Set up a 15 minute consultation to get to know you better and ask any questions.

  • Step 2

    If it is a good fit, schedule your first appointment and complete intake paperwork.

  • Step 3

    Meet your therapist at your first appointment and start your journey!

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Meet the Team

  • Founder

    I have been providing individual counseling to the Deland Community since 2021. My background prior to starting my practice was in inpatient trauma, substance use, and mental health treatment. I am trained in several modalities including Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). I am trained as a specialist in perinatal mood disorders and love working with parents as they navigate pregnancy and early parenthood.
    My approach to therapy is collaborative and cooperative.
    You are the expert of your life and you know what you need to be well. My job is to work alongside you to help you discern and better understand your unmet needs and less-than-helpful behaviors that might be getting in your way.
    I am client centered and holistic in my approach. I am not here to waste your time and I do not want to be the kind of therapist that you need to see forever. We will have a clear goal and we will work hard to get there. You will take away tangible ways to better manage your day-to-day life and will identify way to increase effectiveness in all areas of your life.

  • Every person at some point in their journey reaches the “melting point” that like a solid bar of metal breaks down, overwhelms, and liquifies our resolve, spirit, and voice. Life is challenging, unpredictable, unexpected, and sometimes unfair. No one is crazy or broken, but rather human. Some of us on top of it all have additional genetic risks, loss of or strained/toxic support systems, chemical imbalances, medical conditions, lack of sleep, identity/role and life stage confusion, and past trauma that make navigating the present like trying to see through a hurricane from its center.

    When we meet, we just talk, and to meet your unique needs I use a variety of different treatment approaches such as person-centered and culturally sensitive therapy, CBT, DBT, Narrative Therapy, Mindfulness, and trauma/PTSD-informed interventions. I have over 6 years of experience navigating life crises, anxiety, depression, domestic violence, grief, trauma, and Bipolar Disorder to adults and their loved ones across the lifespan to end-of-life. I specialize in the treatment of comorbid mental health and complex medical conditions, loss of independence, grief, and caregiver adjustment and burnout. My skills and experiences stem from Skilled Nursing facilities, In/Outpatient Hospitals, Cancer Institutes, and a residential mental health facility. I am also very passionate of providing support for emotional burnout, vicarious trauma, self-care, and work/life stress support for the community, health care providers, and students/working professionals. I’d be honored to meet and learn more about you.

    Areas of Treatment:

    Cancer/Oncology Adjustment and treatment, Caregiver Stress, Pain management and sleep,

    Grief and Bereavement, Anger Management, Trauma, Adults, College Students/Graduates,

    Geriatrics, Domestic Violence, Financial Stress, Medical and Mental Health Illness Comorbidity,

    Loss of Independence, Life Stage Transitions, Crisis, Discrimination, Emotional Burnout,

    Vicarious Trauma, Medical/Professional Burnout, Work/School/Life Stress, Chronic and/or

    Complex Medical Illness adjustment

    Interventions Used:

    Person-centered therapy

    Culturally Sensitive Communication

    CBT

    DBT

    Mindfulness

    Motivational Interviewing

    Narrative Therapy

    Solution Focused Therapy

    Trauma-informed interventions

  • Specializing in trauma healing, dissociative disorders, couples & premarital counseling. Ages 10-99

    Let’s try a therapy that works! Journey with me as we take a three-prong approach in treatment that will identify somatic, emotional, and cognitive awareness for healing. I offer regular and extended sessions (1-3 hours) and specialize in identifying the root causes of your “trauma, anxiety and depression.” Therapy is not meant to be forever & a day…let’s get creative and figure out how to work with your body on an actual healing experience and get you back to your life. My specialties are working with sudden traumatic experiences, preverbal trauma, C-PTSD, PTSD, dissociative disorders (including DID/OSDD), trauma surrounding grief, and severe anxiety. I also offer premarital and couples counseling in monogamous relationships to focus on understanding unhelpful patterns and underlying attachment injuries, and work with the both of you to create a safe environment in the relationship.

    I am skilled in working with:

    · Adolescence and adults (ages 10-99)

    · Dissociative systems and dissociation disorders

    · AD military & veterans

    · First-responders

    · Monogamous relationships in various levels of commitment

    · I am cultural, spiritual/religious, and LGBTQIA+ trained and sensitive in our sessions.

    In our sessions, I work with the whole-body experience using non-touch, somatic-focused therapy. I am professionally trained in:

    · EMDR (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)

    · Emotionally focused therapy (Individuals and Couples)

    · Bowen Family Systems

    · Prepare/Enrich Premarital Counseling.

    I am also trained in these other therapy models and may incorporate them into our session as well: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Exposure and Response Prevention, Motivational Interviewing, Internal Family Systems, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.

    During our sessions, I will teach you how your mind and body function at its best so you can continue to heal yourself outside of session. If you are motivated for healing, you do not have to do this alone. We got this!

“Balance is not a passive resting place—it takes work, balancing the giving and the taking, the raking out and the putting in.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer