About Me

Hello and Welcome!

I am an Iowan transplanted to Minnesota in 2013 and have lived here since. I jumped into the mental health field post masters graduation and never looked back. I have been working with children and families for the last 11 years as a therapist and consistently found many repeating questions about screen time. From what parents should allow their children to play, what their friends were playing, what is an actual safe application, and how do I limit or monitor the time as a parent. If this is you, you are in the right place and know that it is okay to have questions or feel like you don’t know where to start. I found this not only to be a repeated topic, but it was extremely hard to control children’s screen time once they started and many felt the lack of connection once setting limits. This is where my curriculum comes in.

But first, a little more about me, over the last 10 years I have been working in home with families and children doing therapy and skills, helping kids in inpatient hospital as a social worker and navigating resources as a case manager. For the last 4 years I stepped into a supervisory role within a community based program while still seeing children and families in office for therapy. What I have found is that parents feel lack of control with screens while also unsure what limits are appropriate to put in place. I just want to say GO YOU by taking the first step in looking into this because when screens are used at school as often as they are, the growing number of friends calling to see if your child can jump online, and games being created to literally addict your child to keep going it is a hard time to be a parent!

I am a new mom to a 1 year old while coming from big families on both my husband and I’s sides it has been so great to see how family members have parented their children, but also how much things have changed. As we navigate screens within our household with a growing child it has been crazy to notice the “technology pull” a phone has just sitting on a couch. When you can’t find me running after my crazy guy I will be working out, baking sourdough or in my garden.

Well, I am so so glad you are here on this journey navigating screens is my passion when helping children and their families. Whatever your goals are I want you to know I will meet you where you are. This isn’t about anyone else’s agenda by your own. I can’t wait to meet you!

Kara