Hi, I’m Marty, and I am grateful that I now get to help foster holistic healing in my work.  My time in the military and many other life experiences led me to seek out my own therapy, and a variety of other healing practices, which helped me rediscover parts of myself and begin to heal.  Additionally, my time as a school teacher offered me opportunities to connect individually with my students, but I found myself wanting to have greater impact on their lives and offer assistance that wasn’t aligned with my role as a teacher.  I decided to pursue a career in counseling, and I have not looked back! 

I believe that each person is naturally resilient, compassionate, courageous, and confident, although life experiences can get in the way of feeling these things.  I also believe that all people inherently have what it takes to heal, when given the right support and a safe environment to do so.  I would be honored to hold that space for you, and to help you reconnect to parts of yourself that may seem lost.    

My therapeutic approach is person-centered and holistic.  I incorporate somatic awareness, attachment theory, and systems models (seeing people in the context of their environments, rather than seeing them as individuals unaffected by the systems, large and small, within which they exist).   I aim to be curious and humble in my work, and to rely on my clients to tell me who they are, where they’ve been, and what they want out of life.  Knowing that a safe, stable, and supportive therapeutic relationship is essential to the process, I am committed to developing this type of environment in therapy.  

I will be interning at Hazel House through May 2025, and I’d welcome a free, no-obligation phone call to see if we might be a good fit for one another.

I am a student intern working toward my Master’s degree at Austin Peay State University (APSU) in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. I have professional membership in the American Counseling Association and I am currently being supervised by APSU faculty and Dr. Lindsay Vaughn, Psy.D., HSP, CSP.