I am a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) and a marriage and family therapist (MFT). I am working towards becoming an AASECT certified sex therapist (CST), and I am trained in EMDR. I use a combination of these skills and trainings in all of my sessions.

Like you, I have many identities. I’m a therapist, a wife, a mom, a friend, a sister, a daughter. I’m a white cis/het woman. I’m a client, a breast cancer survivor, a community connector, an avid reader of novels, and a person trying to get back to a regular yoga practice. I’m always trying to evolve and am dedicated to identifying and working to dismantle power dynamics and the ways that white supremacy, patriarchy and capitalism show up in our systems.

Becoming a therapist is my second career. I spent the first decade after graduate school working in a Philadelphia hospital in different administrative roles. This work taught me the complexity and business of healthcare and what it takes to work in a corporate environment. I then co-founded Fishtown Playschool, a cooperatively run collaborative community in Fishtown, while I was working from home raising my young children.

When the time was right, I enrolled in the the clinical post-graduate program at Council for Relationships, where I learned to be a systemic relational therapist. While I developed those clinical skills, I also worked as the social worker in an HIV clinic.