Kith & Kin Therapy

I work with individuals, couples, and families navigating relational pain, identity shifts, and meaning-making across life stages. I'm trauma-informed and LGBTQIA+ affirming, and I bring specific training in couples and family systems work, including Gottman Method (Levels 1 and 2), Prepare/Enrich, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and Bowen Family Systems Theory. My background includes 20 years in care and crisis roles: emergency departments, higher education, faith communities, and nonprofit leadership. I've spent that time supporting people and families under pressure, in transition, and searching for what matters. As both a therapist and an ordained pastor, I bring deep respect for the ways people and families wrestle with belief, identity, and belonging. That might mean exploring how faith once held a couple together, or how it created distance between them. If your story, individually or as a partnership, includes religious trauma or unresolved spiritual questions, we can make space for that. If it doesn't, we won't. Therapy here isn't preaching or persuading. It's building a space that supports your own meaning-making, individually and together. Who I work with: • Couples looking to break out of a repeating fight, rebuild trust after a rupture, or reconnect after a season of distance. • Families navigating a transition: a new diagnosis, a child's changing needs, an aging parent, or shifting roles after a major life event. • Individuals working through identity, faith, grief, or the relational patterns they keep bringing into every close relationship. My approach is warm and collaborative, yet down-to-earth and practical. Together we'll map what's happening beneath the surface of a conflict or a pattern, name what's getting in the way, and build concrete tools to get unstuck. We'll move at the pace that feels right for you or for your relationship. There's no requirement to dive deep before you're ready. You can expect to: • Recognize the cycle you (or you and your partner, or your family) get stuck in, and learn how to interrupt it • Understand how family-of-origin patterns and history show up in your current relationships • Build tools for staying clearheaded in conflict and repairing after it • Strengthen communication so everyone involved feels heard • Reframe your challenges and name your strengths, individually and as a unit I'm a Limited Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LLMFT), holding a master's-level license and practicing under ongoing supervision to ensure the highest standard of care. I'm currently supervised by Frances Waters, LMSW, DCSW, LMFT, a seasoned trauma and dissociation specialist (waterscounselingandtraining.com). I currently offer therapy on a private-pay basis from my practice in Marquette, Michigan. Sliding scale is available, and I provide superbills for out-of-network reimbursement. I'm committed to access, and we can talk through what's possible. If something here resonates, whether it's curiosity or relief, send a message and we'll find a time to talk