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Over 30 years experience

I have spent many years working with adult survivors of brain injury and other traumatic events. I am especially passionate about filling a much needed gap for survivors of neurological injury. I would love to hear your story.

How to get started

The first step is trusting someone with your story and allowing that person to come alongside you on your journey.

Welcome to Lifepaths

Clinical Care Grounded in Neuroscience:
Acquired Brain Injury and Complex Recovery

Living with brain injury is hard enough on its own. What often makes it even harder is trying to navigate it without the support of someone who

truly understands what you’re experiencing.

Here you’ll find compassionate support, practical neuroeducation, and trustworthy resources that help you understand your experience and navigate the journey with greater confidence and hope.


A Safe Place to Land

Life after a brain injury can feel confusing, frightening, and profoundly isolating. When your brain changes, everything can seem unfamiliar—including yourself.

Here you’ll find compassionate support, practical neuroeducation, and trustworthy resources that help you understand your experience and navigate the journey with greater confidence and hope.

You don’t have to make sense of it all alone.

Understanding the Brain. Caring for the Whole Person.

The injured brain is not simply cognitive. It is emotional, autonomic, relational, and spiritual. Effective recovery requires understanding the whole person—not merely isolated symptoms.

At Lifepaths Counseling, you’ll find neuropsychological education, practical tools, and compassionate guidance designed to support healing in every area of life.

Recovery after brain injury often includes symptoms that are invisible to others—headaches, brain fog, emotional shutdown, sensory overload, nervous system dysregulation, and profound fatigue. Understanding these experiences is often the first step toward healing.

While most clinicians are not trained in treating symptoms and the related emotional patterns after a brain bleed, stroke, or other neurological injury, I understand what you are experiencing: the post-brain injury symptoms — headaches, brain fog, shutdown, emotional numbness, sensory overload, and fluctuating symptoms that can be brutal.


 I am here to help you:

✔ Understanding brain injury and recovery

✔ Managing fatigue, overwhelm, and nervous system dysregulation

✔ Emotional and cognitive rehabilitation

✔ Brain regulation and pacing strategies

✔ Meaning-making and identity after injury

✔ Support for individuals and families

Lifepaths is a place where your experience is taken seriously — emotionally, physically, and neurologically.

This is a space to slow down, breathe, and begin to make sense of what has happened to you through trauma informed therapy and neuroscience-based counseling.


Healing is not just about “getting back to normal.” It is about finding your new steady, at your brain’s pace, and with support that honors both your biology and your humanity.


 

Helping you find your way forward.


You do not have to travel this path alone

Why Lifepaths?

A lifepath is a pathway through life as determined by the choices and decisions a person makes.

By the time you have reached this stage in your life’s journey you most certainly have traversed many paths: some good, some problematic and painful. This is something we all have in common. My hope is that in coming to the place you are now you will give yourself permission to invite someone to come alongside you and support you on your journey and that you will find the healing path.

Faith-based Counseling Available

If you are a person of faith, I want to remind you that God cares deeply about your mental health every bit as much as He does your physical and spiritual wellbeing. He tells us that in the multitude of counselors there is wisdom, and clearly encourages us to seek counsel when we are struggling. “Show me the right path, O Lord, and point out the road for me to follow” the psalmist prayed in Psalm 25:4. Part of my ministry over the years has been to come alongside pastors and those in ministry positions as well as those in the Church seeking Christian counseling. I would consider it an honor to be invited onto the journey with you.

 

 

 

I want to assure you that there are answers to the challenges you face. There is hope. While the rapidly changing world about us can leave us feeling anxious, stressed, alienated, and unsure, we can find stability in the midst of it all.  Our faithful God has promised us hope as an anchor for our souls that is both steadfast and secure (Heb. 6:19).

My goal is to provide a safe place for you to share your concerns, and my prayer is that you will find hope for your circumstances, light in the midst of the darkness, and that you will experience healing in those places of your deepest hurts.

I would consider it a privilege to assist you on your healing journey, whatever life path you have journeyed upon.

In the meantime, I hope the information found on these pages will answer some of the questions you may have and provide some helpful resources.

Because of Him,
Pam

 


Start
Your
Journey

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

Deciding to find healing begins with a decision, is sustained with a commitment, and ends with a resolution to hold on to what you have gained in the process. While embarking on the healing journey certainly requires an inner fortitude and courage on our part, the reward we reap is great.

“The longest and toughest journeys are often the most rewarding.”

Where do I start? Begin by deciding to take the journey. First, consider: Where are you now and where do you want to be? Then, decide to take action. Research and find where the resources you need to reach your goals can be found and let nothing deter you from taking that first step. Start small if necessary, but at least get moving forward and refuse to remain stuck in the cycle you’ve been trapped in for too long.

“If you can’t fly, then run, If you can’t run, then walk, If you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

Commit to the process. Devote your time and resources to it so that you can reach your healing destination. It’s worth it!

“Unless a commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes, but no plans.”


The first step is trusting someone with your story and allowing that person to come alongside you on your journey.