Welcome to OLA Counseling & Wellness

I’m a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist, Wellness Coach, and educator. I help people achieve their health and wellness goals using both traditional psychotherapy approaches and innovations in applying the somatic experience and neuroscience. I use verbal and nonverbal methods in creative collaboration with clients of all ages.

I bring 45 years experience working intensively with people as part of their healing journey. My background is broad and multi-faceted. I bring special skills working with the body and movement for psychotherapy, wellness, and personal growth. Words alone do not heal. Only integration with the body brings true healing. 

I was born and raised in Tampa, FL. I came to Charlotte in 2006 and began attending South Eastern Institute of Neuromuscular Massage in 2008. I graduated in 2009 and became licensed in North Carolina and South Carolina as a massage therapist.

I specialize in reflexology, sports massage, hot stone therapy, cupping, gau sha (myofascia scrapping), lymphatic drainage, structural integration, kinesiology taping, kinetic chain pattern (muscle testing), neuromuscular therapy, frozen shoulder, tension headache, sciatica nerve syndrome and plantar fasciitis.