At Hinterland Counseling, I base my care for clients on appropriate pacing for your unique nervous system. This often means slowing down, turning inward, grounding, and building inner resources before proceeding with any form of trauma processing.

My work as a therapist is built on the principle of uncertainty, as well as the core value of Do No Harm. I never assume to know what is best for you without consulting you first, nor do I assume to be the expert on who you are. Rather, I act as a guide and companion through this next phase of your healing.

My approach includes evidence-based therapies such as EMDR, Brainspotting, and Pain Reprocessing Therapy, and is grounded in values of collaboration, communication, transparency, respect for all, and respect for your autonomy.

Trauma therapy is any type of therapy that helps you heal from difficult, traumatic, or challenging past life events. This can be a single traumatic incident, such as a car accident, an assault, a major surgery, or an illness or injury. It can also be chronic or developmental traumas sustained during childhood, such as repeated abuse, neglect, witnessing the abuse of a caregiver, having a caregiver affected by substance use or mental health problems, growing up in poverty or violence, or any other experience that caused you to feel consistently unsafe or unwanted as a child.

There are many types of trauma therapy available. At Hinterland Counseling, we provide EMDR and Brainspotting therapy to help process trauma. These therapies use the natural healing power of both the brain and the body to assist your nervous system healing.

Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) is a type of therapy that uses mind-body approaches to help you manage chronic pain. PRT is based on neuroscience, and is structured in a way to retrain the brain to stop sending chronic pain signals, especially where there is no longer an ongoing injury.

PRT helps clients better understand that while their pain is very real, it is driven by the brain misinterpreting safe physical signals as dangerous. In PRT we learn to shift out of the fear-pain, toward a cycle of feeling safer in our bodies by changing our thoughts and emotions, and focusing on pleasant sensations (somatic tracking).

PRT aims to break the frustrating cycle of chronic pain. For many clients, this leads to symptom reduction, reduced disability, and improved function, with studies showing promising success rates for treating neuroplastic pain.

I am currently all virtual and will begin seeing clients in-person at my office in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan starting mid-March, 2026.

Individual sessions for private-pay clients is $145 per 50-55 minute session.

Couple’s sessions are $165 per 50-55 minute session.

I am currently out of network with all insurance panels however expect to be in-network with the following providers by early spring 2026:

• Anthem BCBSM/BCN

• Priority Health

Please reach out to inquire about getting on a waitlist for insurance-based services if you would like to work with me using your Anthem or Priority Health benefits.

To get started, reach out and schedule a consultation with me. We will talk about what you’re looking for out of therapy, how I can help, and any questions you have for me.