I received an M.A in Psychology from Phillips Graduate University, and a B.A in Art History from The Ohio State University. As of February 2024 I am working on my second Masters from the University of Melbourne, Australia in Narrative Therapy and Community work. Prior to licensure, I spent years talking with elementary school children in the Los Angeles School district, with adults at the Las Encinas Psychiatric hospital in Pasadena, and in community mental health providing counseling to couples and families.
With a background in fine and performing arts, and a previous career in the entertainment industry, I am sensitive to the intricacies, pressures, and politics of the art world, and the the dilemmas that creative professionals are up against.
I am passionate about addressing mental health as part and parcel of larger systems of harm, and make it a point to expose the pathologizing and dehumanizing discourses that are normalized in our every day language and culture. I value facilitating conversations that invite people to wrestle with taken for granted truths and examine the impacts that normative ideas around success/failure, sexuality, gender, relationships, beauty, and identity have on their lives.
I am a clinical member of both the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and the California Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (CAMFT).