Biography

I am a Licensed Certified Social Worker with the state of Mississippi. During my career I have had the opportunity to work in a variety of mental heath settings to include psychiatric social work, home health and hospice care, juvenile corrections, and special needs populations. Specific populations I have worked with during my career include hospitalized in patient psychiatric populations, the chronically mentally ill homeless, those receiving medical, end of life, and bereavement care, juvenile offenders incarcerated in a long term correction facility, and athletes and sport coaches. Psychological and mental issues I have worked with include depression, anxiety, social anxiety disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), sexual abuse, eating disorders, substance abuse and addiction issues, life adjustment issues, eating disorders, stress management, assertiveness training, and provided counseling and psychological services to athletes and sport coaches. My counseling and therapeutic approach has a tendency to be client centered utilizing techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Rational Emotive Therapy and Reality Therapy.