This is a dark time, filled with suffering and uncertainty. Like living cells in a larger body, it is natural that we feel the trauma of our world. So don’t be afraid of the anguish you feel, or the anger or fear, because these responses arise from the depth of your caring and the truth of your interconnectedness with all beings.
- Joanna Macy, The Work that Reconnects
New human potentials only manifest in the context of new forms of relationship … Can we place our individual love stories within the larger love story of the universe itself?
-Zak Stein, Love in a Time Between Worlds
About Me
I practice individual psychotherapy as a way to support humans during a time of intense collective transformation.
I have experience helping people with a wide range of life challenges – including working through grief and loss, healing from childhood trauma, addressing relationship struggles, and relieving anxiety and depression.
I have worked frequently with survivors of childhood sexual, emotional, and physical abuse; as well as with survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence.
I am queer-affirming, with lived experience. I aim to practice therapy as a tool for liberation, knowing that I do this imperfectly. I value the opportunity to offer a safe and welcoming space for people of color, queer folks, and trans people.
In my prior professional life, I was a classical violinist, and I’ve also worked as an activist in the labor and climate movements. I am still an active artist and practitioner of systems change, with a dedicated meditation practice.
For more about my education and training, see below:
About My Training
Education
Master of Clinical Social Work, Catholic University
Master of Music, Violin Performance, DePaul University
Bachelor of Music, Violin Performance and Creative Writing, Vanderbilt University
Clinical Training
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Immersion (2024)
Clinical Program on Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Washington School of Psychiatry (Year 1, 2021)
Clinical Internship in Trauma and Grief Therapies, Wendt Center for Loss and Healing (2019)
Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga, Kripalu Institute / Justice Resource Institute (2018)
Contemplative and Embodiment Training
3-month solitary cabin retreat, Monastic Academy (2023)
Certified Circling Facilitator (Level 1), Circling Europe (2022)
Full-time residential training, Monastic Academy (2021-23)
Silent meditation retreats, Insight Meditation Society (annually, 2014-2021)
RYT-200, Flow Yoga Center (2016)