Lifepaths Counseling Service
Lifepaths is intended to provide a calm, steady, and welcoming place for people who are carrying more than others often realize. Unless someone has been there themselves, how could they?
Whether you are recovering from a brain injury (ABI, TBI), navigating major changes in your health, healing from the aftereffects of a serious medical condition, or trying to make sense of a life that feels unfamiliar, Lifepaths is meant to meet you gently—right where you are.
Here, you are not expected to push through your symptoms, ignore what your body is telling you, or pretend that everything is fine.
Your healing is allowed to happen at the pace your nervous system can manage. Your experience is respected, your symptoms are believed, and your story is honored.
I want you to feel a compassionate presence as you set out upon the very difficult path to recovery and healing. My focus in therapy is coupled with an understanding of how the brain and body respond to stress, injury, and overwhelm. A huge part of therapy, I believe, needs to include psychoeducation so that you can understand what is happening to you and make sense of it. That can be incredibly empowering when you have lost that through your injury or experience.
This means acknowledging both the emotional and biological sides of suffering—especially when medical events, trauma, or neurological changes have shaken the foundation of your life.
People come to Lifepaths when they are coping with:
• Acquired or traumatic brain injury
• Concussion or subdural hematoma recovery
• Neuroinflammatory or neurovascular symptoms
• Cognitive fatigue, brain fog, or emotional overwhelm
• Anxiety or fear around unexplained neurological changes
• Medical trauma or significant life transitions
• Trauma or PTSD
A bit about Lifepaths
My vision for Lifepaths was to create a safe place for individuals, couples, and families to come and share their experiences in a safe and supportive space. Whatever path you have travelled upon, it has brought you to this particular place at this time. I hope you will find that you do not have to walk alone and that there is help for whatever challenges you are facing.
I integrate neuroscience, brain-behavior principles, and trauma-informed therapeutic care
to support individuals recovering from neurological injury, migraine disorders, chronic
sensory dysregulation, and trauma. My approach combines evidence-based clinical practice
with advanced training in neurophysiology, allowing patients to understand their
symptoms, regain function, and rebuild a sense of safety and stability as their brain heals.
ABI Services Overview
I provide specialized therapy for individuals healing from Acquired Brain Injury and related
neurological challenges. My work blends neuroscience, trauma-informed care, and
behavioral strategies to help patients understand and manage their symptoms while
fostering long-term recovery.
Services include:
– Neuropsychology-informed ABI therapy
– Cognitive fatigue and mental endurance training
– Sensory overload and environmental adaptation strategies
– Headache, migraine, and photophobia management tools
– Emotional and behavioral adjustment support
– Pacing and energy budgeting for daily functioning
– Trauma-informed neurological recovery
– Patient, caregiver, and family neuroeducation
I integrate neuroscience, brain-behavior principles, and trauma-informed therapeutic care
to support individuals recovering from neurological injury, migraine disorders, chronic
sensory dysregulation, and trauma. My approach combines evidence-based clinical practice
with advanced training in neurophysiology, allowing patients to understand their
symptoms, regain function, and rebuild a sense of safety and stability as their brain heals.
ABI Services Overview
I provide specialized therapy for individuals healing from Acquired Brain Injury and related
neurological challenges. My work blends neuroscience, trauma-informed care, and
behavioral strategies to help patients understand and manage their symptoms while
fostering long-term recovery, including:
– Neuropsychology-informed ABI therapy
– Cognitive fatigue and mental endurance training
– Sensory overload and environmental adaptation strategies
– Headache, migraine, and photophobia management tools
– Emotional and behavioral adjustment support
– Pacing and energy budgeting for daily functioning
– Trauma-informed neurological recovery
– Patient, caregiver, and family neuroeducation
I offer neuropsychology-informed rehabilitation therapy for patients
recovering from mild-to-moderate Acquired Brain Injury, post-concussive syndrome,
chronic migraine physiology, and trauma-related neurological dysregulation. My passion
is to help people understand how brain-behavior changes following injury, central sensitization, cortical
hyperexcitability patterns, and trauma-influenced symptoms express themselves.
Why I Do This Work
My professional path has always centered on the brain: its structure, its physiology, its wonders and
mysteries, and its resilience. After earning my doctorate in psychology with a neuroscience
emphasis, I devoted myself to clinical work that honored both the biological and emotional
dimensions of human experience.
My work deepened further after experiencing neurological injury myself. Walking through
the fog, the sensory overload, the exhaustion, the pain, and the long nonlinear recovery gave
me insight no textbook could provide. That lived reality did not take me away from my
calling; it clarified it. It strengthened my clinical voice, heightened my compassion, and
equipped me to help others with a depth that can only come from having been there.
Today, I serve patients with a combination of scientific clarity, psychological insight, and
trauma-informed presence. I approach each person with the belief that the brain can heal,
that recovery unfolds in phases, and that no one should navigate neurological suffering
alone.
Appropriate referrals include patients experiencing:
– Cognitive fatigue or slowed processing
– Sensory intolerance (light, sound, motion)
– Persistent or post-traumatic headache/migraine
– Emotional dysregulation post-injury
– Difficulty reintegrating into work, school, or complex environments
– Trauma layered onto neurological recovery
You deserve support that is gentle, informed, and steady.
My goal is to create a place where you feel safe, understood, and supported as you rebuild your strength, restore clarity, and reconnect with yourself.
You do not have to navigate this alone. Lifepaths exists to walk beside you, one step at a time, with compassion, presence, and hope. I understand your neurological storm, and can walk with you through it with science, empathy, and faith as a guide.
I am convinced that when people are willing to show up and invest themselves in the work of change they will see it happen. Life can be lived in a higher, better, and nobler way, and healing can happen no matter how deep the hurts we have experienced. Whatever the challenge, hope can be renewed.
I love this work, am passionate about bringing hope no matter what the situation, and committed to bringing light into the darkest places. I would be honored to walk this path with you.
