My Background

I entered the mental health field while working as a case manager for families in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. There I witnessed first-hand the impact of trauma on individuals, families, and communities, and I decided I would pursue graduate education in mental health. I sought out programs centered around trauma recovery and social justice, and that brought me to Boston University’s School of Social Work, unique in that its graduate program offered a trauma-specialization alongside it’s long history of social justice work.

In my career as a therapist, I have worked as a clinician on a community treatment team serving folks with serious mental health struggles, provided therapy for women in in-patient recovery from substance use, and managed an outpatient mental health and substance use program. I have lead therapy groups, supervised and trained staff in trauma-informed care, and established therapeutic relationships that cultivate safety, healing, and empowerment in the people I serve. Throughout all of this, I sought out further training in trauma-informed approaches, building on my graduate education in trauma and enhancing my skills as a trauma specialist.

Following a move with my family from the Bay Area in California to the suburbs of New Jersey, I established my own private practice, centered on using my expertise and experience to continue providing quality therapy to those who seek healing.