I am a licensed and certified mental health counselor, consultant, therapist, and addictions specialist (LPC, NCC, CAS) with more than 16 years of experience working within culturally diverse groups to provide “solutions-focused” and cognitive behavioral therapies (CBT) for individuals, couples, and families. Groups worked with include individuals with excessive stress and challenges of life, trauma, depression, anxiety, severe & persistent mental illness, individuals in crisis with thoughts of suicide, individuals with personality and substance use disorders, those medically challenged or in chronic pain, adults, children, adolescents, elderly, and the LGBTQIA+ communities, VA, active military, developmentally delayed as well as forensic and incarcerated populations. I completed my advanced degree in mental health at Chaminade University of Honolulu; I gained real-world experience in both The States of Hawaii and Colorado.