About Lifepaths

Acquired Brain Injury-Informed Psychotherapy
and Neuropsychological Education

I would consider it an honor to help you through whatever struggles you are enduring.

Call me today so we can schedule your free 20 minute phone consultation.

Lifepaths Counseling Service

Neuroscience background, clinical depth, lived ABI experience.

Lifepaths Counseling Service was created to offer a calm, steady, and welcoming place for people recovering from ABI. Unless someone has walked this path themselves, how could they know what it takes to simply get through the day? At Lifepaths, ABI is understood from the inside and out.

Lifepaths Counseling Service provides specialized online counseling for Nevada and California residents navigating trauma, medical trauma, neurological symptoms, or recovery after Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) or Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).

Many people arrive at Lifepaths feeling overwhelmed, misunderstood, or unsure how to move forward after life-changing neurological or medical events. They are struggling with pain brought on by Subdural Hematoma (SDH) or other brain bleed conditions. Brain fog, emotional numbness, sensory overload, and fluctuating symptoms are all part of recovery from any type of cranial hemorrhage (ICH). At Lifepaths, your symptoms are taken seriously, your experience is believed, and your healing is supported at the pace your brain and nervous system can manage.

Whether you are recovering from an Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) or Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), coping with major changes in your health, healing after a serious medical event, or trying to make sense of a life that suddenly feels unfamiliar, Lifepaths is designed to meet you gently—right where you are.

My goal is to design a calm, steady, and neuroscience-informed therapeutic space where you are not expected to push through symptoms or pretend you’re fine. Instead, you will receive evidence-based therapeutic care tailored to the unique challenges of trauma and neurological recovery.

Counseling Rooted in Neuroscience and Trauma-Informed Care

As a therapist for patients in Nevada and California, I integrate:

✔ Neuroscience

✔ Brain-behavior principles

✔ Trauma-informed therapy

✔ Psychoeducation for ABI/TBI recovery

Many people come to therapy confused by symptoms such as emotional overwhelm, sensory intolerance, cognitive fatigue, and sudden shifts in mood or functioning. Trauma and neurological injury alter the brain’s ability to regulate emotion, detect safety, and manage stress.

This kind of therapy helps you understand why these changes happen and how to support your brain’s recovery. I believe knowledge is power, and that understanding what is happening inside your body and brain can help regulate this complex system.

This neuroscience-informed therapy empowers you to regain clarity, stability, and a sense of control over your healing process.

Conditions Supported Through Online Counseling (Nevada & California)

Lifepaths provides online therapy for individuals experiencing:

  • Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)

  • Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

  • Subdural Hematoma Recovery (SDH)

  • Chronic neurological symptoms

  • Neuroinflammatory or neurovascular issues

  • Central sensitization or cortical hyperexcitability

  • Cognitive fatigue and slowed processing

  • Emotional dysregulation post-injury

  • Trauma or PTSD

  • Medical trauma and post-hospitalization stress

  • Sensory intolerance (light, sound, motion)

Specialized Therapy for Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) & Neurological Recovery

I offer neuropsychology-informed online therapy to help patients recovering from ABI and trauma-related neurological dysregulation. Sessions integrate neuroscience, trauma therapy, and behavioral strategies to support long-term recovery.

ABI / Neurological Recovery Services Include:

  • Neuropsychology-informed ABI therapy

  • Psychoeducation on emotional shutdown, cognitive changes, limbic (emotion) spikes, autonomic (symptom) tracking

  • Symptom mapping tools

  • Emotion regulation tailored for injured brains: pacing, titration, sensory grounding

  • Cognitive fatigue and mental endurance training

  • Sensory overload and environmental adaptation tools

  • Migraine, headache, and photophobia management

  • Emotional and behavioral adjustment support

  • Identity, existential, and spiritual integration work

  • Trauma-informed neurological recovery

  • Patient, couples, caregiver, and family neuroeducation sessions

These services are structured to help clients understand symptoms via psychoeducation, reduce overwhelm, and navigate daily functioning during brain injury recovery.

Why I Provide Counseling for ABI, TBI, Trauma, and Neurological Recovery

My clinical work integrates my doctoral training in neuroscience alongside my own lived experience of neurological injury. Having personally navigated ABI and the frustratingly nonlinear process of brain healing, I understand the depth of suffering and confusion many people experience.

This personal and professional insight shapes my commitment to providing:

  • Compassionate trauma-informed therapy

  • Neurologically accurate explanations

  • Online accessibility for those experiencing fatigue, mobility issues, or sensory intolerance

  • A steady therapeutic presence during neurologically complex recovery

I believe that our incredible brains are capable of healing, adaptation, and resilience, and that no one should navigate neurological or medical trauma alone.

Who Should Consider Lifepaths Counseling

Appropriate referrals include individuals who have experienced an ABI and are experiencing:

  • Anxiety related to unexplained neurological symptoms

  • Persistent cognitive fatigue or brain fog

  • Post-traumatic headache or migraine

  • Sensory hypersensitivity

  • Trauma layered onto neurological recovery

  • Chronic overwhelm or dysregulation

If your life has changed after injury, trauma, or illness, online counseling at Lifepaths can help you rebuild clarity, strength, and identity at a pace that respects your nervous system.

 

 

 

You do not have to be alone on your journey!

God never intended for you to walk life’s journey alone.

I hope you will believe this enough to give yourself permission to seek a safe place to share your struggles. Wherever you are on your life’s path now, I pray you will allow someone to come alongside you, to walk with you, to be with you in your pain, to share your experiences, and to find the healing path at last.

While there’s certainly nothing wrong with a little quiet introspection now and then, remember that we all need others to walk alongside us to help keep us on the right path through life.

There is safety in numbers.

Some places simply should not be navigated alone. We are safer when we keep the company of wise friends who have our best interests at heart.

We are stronger when we have the support of others.

There’s an old Zambian proverb that says, “When you run alone, you run fast. But when you run together, you run far.” Meaningful relationships matter. If we have them, we need to nurture and care for them; if we do not, we need to cultivate and grow them.

It is wise.

We all learn and grow much more by walking with others than we do alone. When we travel every lifepath alone, we have no one to help us find our way back when we stray from the right path. We all need traveling companions to help us discern when we have gotten off the path; this is part of God’s protection and keeping for us. Do not give up hope. Keep seeking and keep praying for health and wholeness – there is hope!