I completed my internship with a local college counseling center before graduating from The Citadel with my Master of Arts in Clinical Counseling in 2018. After graduating, I worked at a local community mental health center, helping people dealing with struggles all the way from suicidal thoughts and self-harm behaviors, as well as psychosis, to people dealing with struggles in daily living from relationship struggles and health issues, and everything in between. I helped co-lead the Dialectical Behavior Therapy groups, and worked with people individually as they were learning the DBT skills and trying to practice them in their daily lives. I also attended many trainings along the way. After two years of working for the mental health center, I transitioned to working on a research study at the VA. I was trained in gold-standard treatments for Depression and Panic Disorder (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Cognitive Processing Therapy), as well as a newer treatment my supervisor created called Transdiagnostic Behavior Therapy (TBT) which focuses on challenging avoidance through “exposures.” I was also trained in diagnostic assessments for a variety of mental health disorders. After providing assessments and treatment for two years, I decided to branch out on my own and started my private practice, Ebb & Flow Counseling. Along the way, I have gained training in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, attended a workshop from Kristen Neff’s Mindful Self-Compassion Program, and got back to my roots of using DBT again.