Hello! I’m Casey

Licensed Counselor, Board Certified Art Therapist, Approved Supervisor

Healing begins with curiosity, compassion, and connection.

Casey’s approach integrates mind and body awareness with creativity and self-expression to help clients rediscover balance and resilience. Whether through traditional talk therapy, art making, or a blend of both, Casey aims to create a space where growth feels possible and authenticity feels safe.

No art experience is required, just a willingness to explore. Together, we’ll slow down, tune in, and discover what your nervous system, your story, and your creativity are ready to share.

Background

Casey earned her Master’s degree in Art Therapy from The George Washington University and her Bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Integrative arts from The Pennsylvania State University. In her ongoing pursuit of learning, she also obtained a Certificate of Military Resilience Studies. She is a Licensed Clinical Professional Art Therapist (LCPAT) and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Maryland, as well as a nationally registered and board-certified art therapist (ATR-BC). Casey additionally holds licensure in the state of Pennsylvania as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). She is also a Board-Approved Supervisor for graduate-level counselors (LGPC) in Maryland, and capable of supporting provisional art therapists on their journey to becoming board certified.

Meet Casey

LC13322, PC017187, ATC360

A therapist who understands service, responsibility, and the parts of you that learned to keep going.

As a military spouse, Casey understands that service impacts more than the individual wearing the uniform. The realities of deployments, training cycles, shift work, unpredictability, secondary stress, family transitions, and the pressure to “keep things running” at home are not abstract concepts, they are part of the world she has lived in and worked alongside.

In addition to her personal connection to military life, Casey has extensive professional experience working with first responders, military members, veterans, helping professionals, and their families. She understands that many people in these roles are highly capable, mission-focused, and accustomed to functioning under pressure, yet may struggle to know what to do with the emotional weight that accumulates over time.

What Makes Casey’s Approach Different?

Trauma-Informed Care That Honors Survival

Casey does not view protective responses as character flaws. Hypervigilance, emotional shutdown, compartmentalization, over-functioning, and difficulty relaxing often developed for a reason. Therapy focuses on understanding how these patterns helped you survive and whether they are still serving you in the present.

IFS Specialization

Rather than asking, “What’s wrong with me?” Casey helps clients explore which parts of themselves have been carrying the burden. The part that stays in control. The part that avoids vulnerability. The part that feels responsible for everyone else. The part that is exhausted.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) allows therapy to move beyond symptom management and toward a deeper understanding of the internal roles that developed through trauma, service, responsibility, and life experience.

Art Therapy as a language for Processing

Many first responders, military members, and helping professionals are skilled at explaining events but struggle to access the emotions connected to them. Casey’s training as a Board-Certified Art Therapist provides an additional pathway for processing experiences that may be difficult to put into words. No artistic ability is required.

When Service Becomes Part of

Who You Are

Maybe you have had some of the following experiences:

Feeling “on” even when off duty
Difficulty transitioning from work mode to home mode
Irritability or emotional numbness
Carrying responsibility for everyone else

Feeling disconnected from themselves or their family
Guilt about needing support
Struggling to slow down without feeling unproductive
Finding that old coping strategies are no longer working

If these experiences resonate with you, know that they are not signs of weakness, they are often understandable adaptations to a life spent serving, protecting, and caring for others.
Casey offers a space where you can set down the weight of always being the one others depend on, make sense of your experiences, and reconnect with yourself in ways that feel authentic, sustainable, and grounded.

Together, we may explore:

The cumulative impact of trauma, operational stress, and chronic responsibility
The nervous system's role in hypervigilance, emotional shutdown, or difficulty "turning off"
The relationship between your professional identity and your sense of self outside of work
Burnout, compassion fatigue, moral injury, and the emotional weight of caring for others
The ways service impacts relationships, communication, and family life
Grief, transitions, and the losses that often go unrecognized
The protective parts of you that have worked tirelessly to help you survive, succeed, and continue showing up for others

Working with Casey

If you spend your days serving, protecting, leading, or caring for others, you've likely developed ways of moving through the world that have helped you do incredibly difficult work. Staying alert, compartmentalizing emotions, solving problems quickly, or always being the one others rely on are not character flaws, they're often adaptations that made sense in the environments where you learned them.

At the same time, those same adaptations can sometimes make it harder to rest, connect, or feel fully present in your life outside of work.

This is where I often find myself saying, "Yes, and."

You can be deeply committed to your profession and acknowledge that it has changed you.

You can be grateful for your experiences and grieve what they have cost.

You can be exceptionally capable and still need support.

You can value the parts of yourself that learned to keep going and become curious about whether they are carrying more than they were ever meant to.

Rather than asking you to leave those parts behind, our work is about understanding them, how they protected you, what they still need, and how they can begin to trust that they no longer have to carry everything alone.

Specialties

Supporting those who serve, and their families, is personal to me as a military spouse. I understand the unique challenges, stressors, and sacrifices that come with life in service. With background and additional certification in Military Resilience, Family Readiness, and Transition from Service to Civilian, I am prepared to address your unique needs.
With over five years of experience working directly with police, fire, EMS, and paramedics, I understand the unique stress, trauma, and demands of these roles. I provide a safe, confidential space to process critical incidents, navigate work-related stress, and build resilience, helping you care for yourself while continuing to serve your community.
Trauma can leave lasting imprints on the body and mind, shaping how we see ourselves and the world around us. Through trauma-informed and creative approaches, we work together to gently process what’s been held inside, rebuild a sense of safety, and reconnect with your strength and resilience. Healing doesn’t mean forgetting, it means learning to live fully again, in the present, with greater compassion for yourself.
IFS, or Internal Family Systems, is based on the understanding that we all have different “parts” within us, each carrying its own thoughts, emotions, and roles that have helped us navigate life. You might notice this in the way we naturally say things like, “Part of me feels ready, but another part is scared.” In therapy, we gently get to know these parts with curiosity and compassion working toward unburdening and integrating with self. This approach blends beautifully with art therapy, as creating through imagery, color, and symbol can give each part a voice and a way to be seen, understood, and integrated.
Major life transitions can bring a mix of emotions, uncertainty, grief, stress, relief, and even a sense of losing connection with who you once were. For service members, first responders, helping professionals, and their families, transitions such as deployment, returning home, career changes, retirement, loss, and shifting roles can create unique emotional challenges.
We will navigate these seasons of change by exploring the experiences, emotions, and protective patterns that shape how you move through the world. Therapy provides space to process what has been carried, strengthen self-understanding, build healthy boundaries, and reconnect with a sense of balance, purpose, and emotional wellness.
Supervision is a space for growth, reflection, and connection, an opportunity to deepen both clinical skill and personal insight. As a board-approved supervisor in counseling, I strive to create a supportive environment that balances guidance with collaboration. Together, we explore case dynamics, ethics, creativity in practice, and the ongoing development of your professional identity.
Casey Accepts LGPC supervisees in the state of Maryland as well as LAPC supervisees in Pennsylvania!

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A Message From Casey

If you are someone who is used to being the capable one, the dependable one, the calm one in the middle of chaos, I want you to know that therapy does not require you to stop being strong.

My goal is not to take away the parts of you that helped you serve, protect, lead, or care for others.

My goal is to help you understand those parts, reduce the burden they have been carrying alone, and create space for you to feel more connected, to yourself, to your family, and to the life you want beyond simply getting through the next shift, call, deployment, or responsibility.

Two things can be true at once: you can be incredibly capable, and you can deserve support too.

That is often where our work begins.