Meet Tracy
I am a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) in California with experience supporting teens and pre-teens in school-based mental health settings. I earned my M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Naropa University, where my training emphasized mindfulness, compassion, and trauma-informed care.
Over the past decade, I have worked in mental health, recovery, and school settings throughout Santa Cruz County, and most recently as a Mental Health Specialist at North Tahoe High School. I support youth navigating anxiety, depression, emotional regulation, school stress, relationship challenges, identity exploration, and life transitions.
My approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded in building genuine trust and connection with teens while also supporting parents through the challenges of adolescence. I believe young people respond best when they feel respected, understood, and emotionally safe.
I offer LGBTQ+ and identity-affirming therapy for teens in a space grounded in compassion, respect, and emotional safety. My experience includes clinical training at The Diversity Center of Santa Cruz, where I supported LGBTQ+ youth and community members in an affirming therapeutic environment.
I welcome you to reach out to learn more about how therapy may support your teen!
Beyond Talk Therapy
Many teens come to therapy feeling frustrated that past therapy only involved talking without creating lasting change. Somatic therapy offers a different approach — helping teens experience real shifts in how they feel emotionally and physically, not just talk about their struggles.
Somatic therapy is a body-based, trauma-informed approach that helps teens notice and understand how emotions show up physically — through tension, shutdown, racing thoughts, stomach aches, overwhelm, irritability, or feeling constantly on edge.
Using mindfulness, breathing, movement, body awareness, and nervous system regulation skills, teens learn practical tools to feel calmer, more grounded, and more connected to themselves.
Rather than only talking about emotions, somatic therapy helps teens experience real shifts in how they feel day-to-day — supporting emotional regulation, resilience, confidence, and lasting change