Biblical counsel, Practical help, Eternal hope.

Counseling for women online, and in person in Newark, Delaware.

Learn more

There’s hope.

As a follower of Jesus, I don’t think the categories “biblical” and “practical” are mutually exclusive. But I do know, from thousands of counseling conversations, and from my own story that includes abuse, blindness, and brokenness, that sometimes it’s very hard to see how that is true. As a biblical counselor I have worked with women in all ages and stages of life to help them see how the commands, promises, and principles of Scripture intersect with the hard places in their own hearts and lives.

I work with women of all ages seeking healthier relationships, healing from abuse and betrayal, and guidance to move forward spiritually and emotionally, even in the midst of chronic or complex suffering.

Bio

Let’s talk.

I work with women from all over the globe who are seeking God’s help through the counseling process to deal with a broad range of issues including: abuse, anxiety, depression, difficult relationships, divorce, grief, parenting, singleness, sexual brokenness, and trauma. If you are ready to schedule, you can do so here.

If you would like to request information, you are welcome to reach out via this form. Your contact information and the content of your inquiry are confidential. If you have other questions, feel free to visit my bio page, FAQ, or email me directly.

  • "Pain disrupts normal. It’s supposed to disrupt normal. It’s supposed to make you feel a need for help…When you let life’s troubles get to you, it gets you to the only One who can help.”

    David Powlison

  • "Absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties.”

    John Piper

  • "When we are lowest, we can still say, 'Our Father,' and when it is very dark, and we are very weak, our childlike appeal can go up, 'Father, help me! Father, rescue me!'"

    Charles H. Spurgeon

  • "Why He allows these things now, I do not know. Why we must wait for those promises to be fulfilled, I do not know. But I do know who He is, because of how He lived and died, and if He can conquer death and hell, then I will struggle to have faith that he will finish that job someday."

    Diane Langberg

  • "Grace comes to decimate our delusions of self-sufficiency. Grace works to destroy our dangerous hope for autonomy. Grace helps to make us reach out for what we really need and submit to the wisdom of the Giver. Yes, it’s true, grace rescues us from us."

    Paul David Tripp

Articles and Reviews
Good Endings: Learning from Powlison about Restoring Joy for the Sexually Broken
Good Endings: Learning from Powlison about Restoring Joy for the Sexually Broken

As a biblical counselor to women, I regularly find myself in the privileged role of walking alongside those facing sorrow in their lives because of the impact of sin on God’s good gift of sex and sexuality. As a woman who lives in that same fallen world, I have benefitted greatly from the message of hope and renewal found in this honest, compassionate, and eminently practical book. I reread it nearly every year, and I wholeheartedly recommend it for those wanting to understand steps they can take toward Jesus as they seek the renewal only he can give.

Read More →
Bilbo, Books, and Biblical Counseling
Bilbo, Books, and Biblical Counseling

In my own quest, small as it seems, I am on a journey to find the books that point the way to the good endings. Not unlike Frodo and friends, our journeys are fraught with danger, temptation, and evil. Same-sex attraction? Suicidal ideation? Lasting depression? Paralyzing anxiety? Decimating grief? Destructive marriage? Wayward children? Treacherous betrayal? Incest? Intrusive thoughts? Adultery? Abandonment? Divorce? Cancer? Chronic illness?

All dark and unpleasant. But in the series, “Good Endings,” I hope to introduce the books that tackle these subjects and others in truthful, beautiful, and helpful ways so that we can find our way to the good endings in our own stories.

Read More →
How to Thrive in Counseling, Even If You're Scared to Start
How to Thrive in Counseling, Even If You're Scared to Start

I’ve sat on both sides of the counseling room. That first session? It often brings a flood of emotions and a tangle of thoughts. I remember it well. Every woman who walks through the door carries her own blend of concerns, expectations, hopes, and questions. Some of the most common ones include:

Read More →
Thoughts on Grief and Hope a Week After Easter
Thoughts on Grief and Hope a Week After Easter

“The Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.”

It is comforting to me that God the Spirit, who has command of every language, groans to God the Father, to God the Son. He is groaning for a believing family as they sit, still reeling with the unexpectedness and depth of their loss, groaning with them as they grieve.

Read More →
On Pollen and Humility. Or, How I Learned the Truth of 1 Peter 5:3-8 the Hard Way
On Pollen and Humility. Or, How I Learned the Truth of 1 Peter 5:3-8 the Hard Way

Sorrow did not soften my stance on sin, but it did humble me and help me be slower to make assumptions until I know someone’s story more deeply and understand the context of their lives well enough to discern what biblical commands speak into their situation.

Read More →