I am primarily a human being; who is also a therapist. I strive for the human part of me to be my brightest guidepost. I am a naturalist and I learn as much from nature as I learn from recent studies on FMRI’s and neuroplasticity. 

I graduated from Jane Addams College of Social Work (UIC) in 2012, started as a private practice therapist in 2015, and became a professor at Loyola School of Social Work in 2024. My approach is vast and varied but always body-mind centered, guided by the last decade of being in my own personal therapy and being a therapist. I picked up somatics as a yoga teacher and then moved towards more formalized trauma treatment training in somatics. I dapple in IFS and “parts work.” I am EMDR-trained and always curious about how to create enough safety in our bodies to complete neurocircuits. 

I am a therapist who sees my clients through the lens of what has happened to you and how your body and mind have found ways to cope in this world. As a queer person, I have the lived experience of navigating the systemic oppression that comes with marginalization, and I work best with clients who hold various marginalized identities. I strive to peel back the layers of shame that come with living in an increasingly traumatizing world, with the hope that we can all find freedom and liberation.