Simone de Beauvoir
With nearly 20 years of experience in wellness, along with a strong background in history and philosophy, I bring a perspective to mental health care that blends clinical training with insight. My experience spans private practice, academia, and large clinical settings, enabling me to support individuals and families with compassion, depth, and flexibility. Whether you’re navigating a life transition, processing trauma, or exploring issues related to spirituality, body image, or self-acceptance, I offer a therapeutic space where your full humanity is welcomed and supported.
My specialty includes helping clients uncover and work through unconscious or difficult-to-express aspects of their experience, drawing on psychoanalytic and existential approaches rooted in object relations theory. As a doctoral candidate, my research explores the relational and existential dimensions of grief, reflecting my commitment to understanding the deeper forces that shape healing. Our work may include talk therapy and guided imagery, supporting emotional release, nervous system regulation, and sustainable personal growth.
Ph.D. Candidate - Marriage & Family Therapy
Texas Woman's University (2022-Present)
Master's Degree - History
Eastern Washington University, Summa Cum Laude (2023-2025)
Master's Degree - Marriage and Family Therapy
Touro University, Summa Cum Laude (2017-2019)
Bachelor's Degree - Kinesiology/Business
Texas Woman's University (2004-2008)
LMFT in State of Texas - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (2022)
Certifications earned in Personal Training, Yoga, & Hypnotherapy
(2005, 2011, 2018)
Additional Education- Philosophy at Holy Apostles College & Seminary (2024)
AAMFT - American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
TAMFT - Texas Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
IARPP - Intl. Assoc. Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
AHA - American Historical Association
My work is deeply informed by philosophical inquiry, particularly the Enlightenment era and its enduring impact on how we understand the self, consciousness, and human freedom. Thinkers such as René Descartes, with his famous articulation of cogito, ergo sum, laid the groundwork for modern conceptions of subjectivity.
Building on this historical foundation, my engagement with psychoanalytic theory explores the complexities of the unconscious, emotional life, and relational patterns that shape our inner worlds. I draw from Freud, Jung, Winnicott, Klein, and Lacan, attending to how early experiences influence adult subjectivity and interpersonal dynamics.
In parallel, my interest in existential philosophy, such as in the works of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Sartre, and others, centers on the human confrontation with freedom, mortality, authenticity, and meaning.
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