Online telehealth sessions are always available to ensure your safety and health, as well as mine.
For more information please review the telehealth therapy information located under the services section.
Starting now, you can begin a brand new journey toward a more positive path for yourself – one that’s filled with growth, well being, acceptance, and empowerment.
What can therapy do for me?
There are a variety of benefits that can come from therapy, and they tend to be individualized. Therapists are there to provide levels of support, teach certain skills, and help patients discover new coping strategies for things like anxiety, depression, stress, or even creative blocks. You don’t need to have some kind of ‘major disorder’ to find usefulness from a therapist. In fact, if you’re simply looking for personal growth in any aspect of your life, you can typically find the skills and resources through therapy to help with family problems, marital issues, and more. Essentially, a therapist offers a different way of looking at things – perhaps a perspective you haven’t yet considered, which makes it easier to point you in the right direction, and find the solutions you’re looking for in life. Of course, therapists can’t just ‘fix’ everything on their own. It’s about using those resources you learn in your everyday life that can really turn things around. Still unsure about what therapy could do for you? Take a look at resource page.
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Introducing our new canine assistant, Jazz — a friendly, wagging-hearted team member ready to bring comfort and joy!
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This Is Jazz.
Jazz is a Shorkie. Jazz and I have been together since she was 12 weeks old. Jazz has grown into a natural counselor and therapy dog. Jazz loves people, loves to play and loves her beauty sleep. If you’re not into dogs, that is completely fine. Jazz has a part-time schedule and isn’t in the office every day. Just let me know, and I’ll be happy to help you with an appointment time for a day that she is not in the office.
Why did I want to start Compassionate Connections?
How it all began.
Believe it or not, my mother taught me compassion before I was even born. While pregnant with me, she worked at a sheltered workshop supporting people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. There she met James — a man who had been abandoned by his family and left homeless. My mother chose, without hesitation, to become his guardian.
She gave James more than shelter: she gave him consistent care, respect, and a place at our table. She welcomed him into our lives with the same gentle steadiness she would show any family member. By the time I arrived, James was already part of our household — and from the moment I was born, he was my grandfather.
That example shaped everything I understand about compassion. My mother’s choice shows that love is not limited to blood. It is an act of connection and commitment: noticing someone’s need, responding with dignity, and making room in your life for another person. Because of her, I learned that family can be chosen and that caring for others is a powerful, lasting gift.
In the photo to the right you can see James and I holding hands — a quiet, steady reminder that sometimes the simplest act of connection is what grounds us as we move through hard work and healing.
Our bond was unique and unbreakable. When James died a few weeks before I graduated with my Master’s degree in 2014, the loss reshaped me. Grief revealed how much the world needs more compassion.
I have faced my own roadblocks, setbacks, and seasons of intense heartache and sadness. Those experiences taught me that we don’t have to carry pain alone. I wanted to create a safe, compassionate space where people can be heard and begin to heal — a place where the small act of holding someone’s hand, literally or metaphorically, can make a meaningful difference on the journey.
The name Compassionate Connections honors my mother’s example of unconditional love and keeps alive the warmth and kindness James brought to my life. It is both a tribute and an invitation: to receive care, to give compassion, and to let those connections help us find our way forward.