Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

I have worked with individuals and families recovering from traumatic brain injury for over 20 years. I offer online psychology services designed to connect your recovery plan to your home environment and help you heal, grow and re-engage with your life. I am happy to work with you individually, but also work with a team of allied health professionals to help with complex neurological and orthopedic injuries with a full suite of outpatient telerehabilitation services.

Brain injury can turn every aspect of your life upside down. It can be immensely isolating and it is profoundly misunderstood by family, friends, the public, and even many medical professionals. It's been my sacred privilege to walk beside survivors of traumatic brain injury for the past 10 years in the medical field, and now as a counselor. You don't have to do this alone. I invite you to talk with someone who understands brain injury.

A Traumatic Brain Injury is PTSD however I have experience in working with concussions and the debilitating effects on the brain by the CNS disease PANDAS.

I have personal and professional experience with brain injury. As a mental health professional, I offer counseling that focuses on the emotions, thoughts, relationship challenges, and intrapersonal experiences that often accompany a brain injury. I offer counseling services for brain injury survivors, partners, parents, and siblings. When one person has a severe brain injury, the whole family has a brain injury. The family system must adapt and adjust to this life changing event.

TBI's have been vastly overlooked and downplayed in their affect on individuals lives. I've seen it firsthand with clients I have helped, and I'm here to provide that validation, as well as concrete action steps to increase your cognitive functioning. TBI's can be tough, but with the right support and guidance, I'm confident you can overcome those limitations to enjoy life again with your friends and family and overall functioning. Let me help you and bring you some hope on this journey!

TBIs don't discriminate. TBIs can change your identity to a point where you are barely recognizable from those you love. TBIs can create guilt and shame due to the challenges experienced in your life. Anger, irritability, sleep, and fatigue impact all areas of your life. Some facets of the TBI can be healed. For the parts that can't be healed, compensation strategies can be learned and implemented.

TBIs don't discriminate. TBIs can change your identity to a point where you are barely recognizable from those you love. TBIs can create guilt and shame due to the challenges experienced in your life. Anger, irritability, sleep, and fatigue impact all areas of your life. Some facets of the TBI can be healed. For the parts that can't be healed, compensation strategies can be learned and implemented.

CETRI (Chicago Electrical Trauma Rehabilitation Institute) works to improve the treatment of electrical injury through research and multidisciplinary collaboration. Our scientists and clinicians have years of experience evaluating and treating electrical injuries. Through multidisciplinary research, clinical care, and educational outreach, our team works to develop diagnostic tools and methods for more effective therapies for electrical injury survivors.

I specialize in evaluating the cognitive and emotional impacts of TBI, providing individualized assessments to understand changes in memory, attention, and executive functioning. I work collaboratively to develop strategies and recommendations that support recovery and improve daily functioning.

Navigating the world after acquiring a brain injury is no easy process. Everything about the way that you feel to the new life-style accommodations can flip your world upside down. I help my client's process their new challenges, and act as a teammate to create a new plan for success while adapting to their new needs.