Internship

Internship time is a critical part of your learning and growing experience as a therapist. Throughout your internship, my goal is to be your professional, secure base. I am your safe space to make mistakes, learn, grow, challenge yourself (and each other!), so that you can then go out into the world and work with your clients and try new things. I wholeheartedly believe in attachment and view the world that way, and our relationship is always what remains the most important to me over the next year. I am also intently aware of the power differential between you and me. I aim to level that as much as possible and partner with you to get you to graduation, rather than be your “boss.” My goal is to launch you fully prepared to sit with clients, maintain documentation, explore your cases through different theoretical lenses, and identify your specialization within the world.

I've worked in all treatment settings from outpatient to inpatient, with age ranges from 0-75, and individuals/couples/and families. I have been practicing for 10 years and my private practice will turn seven in September, which is how long I've been specializing in treating parents. I am a mom to a fiery and sweet 3 year old and work part-time so that I can be with her in the afternoons. I teach in Antioch University's graduate school for mental health counseling as well. I absolutely love having interns and teaching and passing on what I've learned over the last decade. Supervision is my favorite thing I do! I pour into my interns and prepare them to launch at graduation feeling solid, grounded, and supported... even if they don't stay on with me. I believe in women supporting women and students describe me as really encouraging. 

This program was developed out of a desire to offer a perinatal/parental mental health training program, offering specialized supervision and niche development in the field. I pour into my interns and prepare them to launch at graduation feeling solid, grounded, and supported... even if they don't stay on with me. I believe in women supporting women and students describe me as really encouraging. 

If you are interested in discussing the opportunity to collaborate with The Holding Space KC, please fill out the attached google form, it gathers a ton of information from you so we can assess for goodness of fit not just with me, but with the team as a whole. Once you submit it, we will reach out to schedule an interview. After that, you'll have the opportunity to meet with my current intern, a former intern who stayed on staff after graduation, as well as my business partner, Rachel, that you would be sharing space with for in-person sessions.

The Holding Space is nestled within The Tea House collective, so as an intern you also collaborate with 4 other women-owned businesses (mental health, doula/midwife, and pediatric OT).