Welcome.
I am Meredith, a systemic psychotherapist and founder of Amana Psychotherapy. My approach to therapy is collaborative and rooted in compassion, somatic awareness, and the understanding that healing happens in relationship to the self, others, and the world around us. I help clients transform patterns shaped by personal and intergenerational trauma so they can live with greater clarity, connection, and freedom.
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (IL & TX) and trauma specialist. My approach to treatment is through a contemplative, queer-feminist lens, drawing on empirical, systemic, psychodynamic, and experiential methodologies to create meaningful access points for change. My primary methods include integrative systemic therapy, mindfulness, meditation, and humanistic approaches. I work with adolescents, parents, couples, non-traditional couples, non-traditional families, and individual adults. I welcome clients of all identities and lived experiences, including those exploring or living within queer, trans, multicultural, diasporic, spiritual, or non-traditional communities.
Above all, my intention is to help people come home to themselves—to live from a place of clarity, authenticity, compassion, and choice. I welcome questions and invite you to reach out if you’d like to explore what beginning therapy together may look like.
Psychotherapy Services
Amana Psychotherapy is a systemic psychotherapy practice. I take a relational approach to therapy that understands emotional distress within the context of relationships, patterns, and larger systems rather than viewing problems as located only within one person. Systemic therapy explores how family dynamics, communication styles, culture, roles, and life transitions influence well-being. Treatment focuses on changing interaction patterns, strengthening connections, increasing flexibility, and creating new meanings so individuals, couples, and families can experience healthier functioning and lasting change.
In-person and telehealth services are available in Denton, Texas.
Illinois and outside the DFW metroplex, only telehealth services are available.
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Relational psychotherapy is a therapeutic approach that understands emotional health and distress within the context of relationships, interactional patterns, and social systems. Rather than viewing problems as located solely within the couple, family, or multi-person relationship, relational psychotherapy explores how family dynamics, attachment experiences, communication styles, cultural influences, and current relationships shape a person’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. The therapeutic relationship itself becomes an important space for healing, insight, and new experiences. Through collaboration, reflection, and pattern change, clients develop healthier ways of relating to themselves and others, strengthen boundaries, and increase flexibility in navigating personal, familial, and broader social systems.
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From a systemic lens, individual psychotherapy is a form of counseling that focuses on one person while recognizing that no individual exists in isolation. Rather than viewing symptoms, emotions, or behaviors as belonging solely to the person, systemic therapy considers how relationships, family patterns, social environments, culture, and life context influence psychological functioning. The client is the primary participant in treatment, but the therapeutic work explores the larger systems in which the client lives, including family of origin, intimate relationships, workplace dynamics, community, and broader cultural or societal forces.
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Starting Fall 2026
As an American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) approved supervisor, I am a licensed clinician who provides structured guidance, clinical oversight, and professional mentorship to supervisees working toward licensure or advanced competence. I help supervisees strengthen case conceptualization, systemic assessment, treatment planning, ethics, and use of self in therapy. As a supervisor I support the development of clinical skills through feedback, reflective dialogue, and review of interventions with individuals, couples, and families. I also monitor client welfare, ensure ethical and legal standards are upheld, and evaluate supervisee progress. In addition, supervisors foster professional identity, confidence, and readiness for independent practice as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.