About Me

I graduated from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA with a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and am a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC #4957) in the state of California as well as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC #9195) in the state of Massachusetts. I am also a Certified Gestalt Therapist through Pacific Gestalt Institute.

I have worked in a variety of settings including in-home therapy, community mental health, outpatient therapy, and residential treatment centers and also believe in the power of laughter and both shared and unqiue human experience.

I am a faculty member at the Pacific Gestalt Institute (PGI) have recently also trained in Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy (PAP) and served on Gestalt Training Institute of Los Angeles (GTILA) Board of Directors, a non profit aimed at providing accessible training opportunities through scholarships and affordable educational opportunities for Gestalt Therapists and the Gestalt curious.

A piece of my own journey to becoming a therapist is that I didn’t realize how many ways I had learned to protect myself from life and the pain of feelings, vulnerability, and a lot of shame. Those protections were critically important in my life survival but didn't and don't always serve me now in my current life.

Therapy gave me a place where I could be known, met, and understood by both me and another "suffering stranger" as Donna Orange writes.

On a personal note, I am an east coast transplant, former Harvard business analyst turned therapist, nerd, dancer, lover of food and fun, abashed tv-binger, and I'm on this human ride too...