tem·pest | “a violent storm”

Your storm is not just chaos — it’s the current carrying you back to your authentic self.

Find Your Path

The Power of Curiosity & Compassion

At Tempest Counseling, the goal isn’t to fix you—because you’re not broken. You’re a person who has been surviving, often in the best ways you knew how.

The parts of we’ve learned to hide or be ashamed of are often the ones that hold our deepest sources of meaning and authenticity. Rather than fight with your emotions and thoughts, we will focus on approaching with the curiosity and compassion so that we can discover what is truly happening underneath the problems you experience.

By compassionately experiencing and honoring the truth of what you’ve been holding, that is how healing truly begins.

This isn’t about becoming someone else. It’s about becoming more fully yourself.

How I Work

I believe therapy is about more than solving problems and finding solutions. It's a space to slow down, explore what lies beneath the surface, and reconnect with yourself in a deeper, more authentic way.

My style of therapy can generally be described in three main ways…

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Relational

Relational therapy focuses on the healing power of authentic connection, exploring how past and present relationships shape the way you see yourself and others

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Experiential

Experiential therapy focuses on helping you connect with and process your emotions, body sensations, and present-moment experiences in a deeper and more authentic way.

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Existential

Existential therapy explores questions of meaning, identity, freedom, and purpose, helping you build a more authentic and fulfilling relationship with yourself and your life.

Theories & Approaches

For those that want to know the nitty gritty of what I do…

A Venn diagram illustrating different types of therapy with 'Tempest Counseling' in the center. The circles include Relational-Cultural Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Internal Family Systems Informed, Existential Therapy, and Constructive Psychotherapy.

  • Everyone gets a little crew of parts like inside out! IFS views the mind as made up of many parts—each with its own voice, emotion, or role. We’ll approach each of them with compassion, helping you develop a deeper sense of self-trust, balance, and internal harmony.

    *Please note I am not officially certified as an IFS therapist.

  • Healing happens in connection, not isolation. AEDP focused on using experiential techniques to unlock the wisdom and inherent capacity for growth in all of us.

  • Existential therapy helps you explore the deeper questions of life—like purpose, identity, freedom, and mortality. Instead of offering quick fixes, we’ll reflect on what truly matters to you and what it means to live an authentic life.

  • ACT supports you in making space for difficult emotions while committing to a life rooted in your values. Instead of trying to control or avoid your inner world, we’ll build acceptance, flexibility, and mindful action. It’s about living with intention, even when things feel hard.

  • Our bodies can hold emotions or sensations that leave us feeling unsafe and disconnected. In therapy, we will work with reconnecting to the body in safe, controllable ways to revitalize your felt sense and bring you closer to yourself.

  • Narrative therapy helps you explore and re-author the stories that have shaped your identity, especially those rooted in pain or shame. Together, we’ll make space for new, empowering narratives that align with who you really are.

  • We all interpret the world through stories shaped by culture, upbringing, and experience. Constructive therapy invites you to examine those beliefs and rebuild them in a way that better supports your healing. It’s about finding new meaning that feels true and life-giving.

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

Wild Geese by Mary J Oliver