My background
Welcome to my private therapy practice! I am a psychotherapist and licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) in Massachusetts. I received a Master of Social Work degree with a concentration in Clinical Mental Health from Boston College School of Social Work, a Master of Arts degree in Psychology from Boston University, and have completed advanced trainings in trauma-informed mental health treatments.
I have experience across a range of clinical mental health settings, including group practices, university and high school counseling centers, the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University, the Substance Use Disorder program at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the McLean-Franciscan Child and Adolescent Inpatient Mental Health Program. My involvement in research on suicidal behavior, substance use, and treatment efficacy has further informed my clinical approach and commitment to providing ethical, person-centered mental health care.
My clinical and theoretical approach to therapy
I am dedicated to creating a safe, nonjudgmental space supporting holistic growth and healing. I provide relational, trauma-informed therapy, grounded in a strength-based, insight-oriented, and collaborative approach. I tailor treatment to best meet each individual's needs, integrating evidence-based modalities, including cognitive behavioral, narrative, and mindfulness-based therapies. I recognize the strength of our rapport in fostering vulnerability, self-compassion, resilience, and adaptive change.
My clinical work draws from a person-in-environment, attachment-based lens, looking at how the environment, early relationships, biological vulnerabilities, and stress responses affect mental health and well-being. I hold a space where we can navigate challenging life experiences and understand the underlying root causes and mechanisms of distressing emotions, behaviors, and interpersonal patterns. I offer appropriate challenge in order to encourage healthy insight and change. I aim to support you in facilitating deeper insight and understanding of your experiences to help support overall growth and healing.
I am hopeful that therapy can help you feel empowered to manage mental health challenges and maladaptive coping, strengthen your identity and sense of self, and create meaningful, adaptive change. My work is grounded in trust, curiosity, transparent communication, sense of safety, and an affirming, inclusive space welcoming individuals of all backgrounds, identities, and neurodivergent experiences. Because therapeutic rapport is so important, I offer an initial consultation to discuss what you are looking for in therapy and to see if we are a good mutual fit for ongoing work together.
Areas of clinical focus
In my practice, I support individuals navigating a range of mental health challenges and difficult life experiences. I use a holistic approach, focusing on shared mechanisms and underlying processes that may be interconnected across different experiences. I most often work with young adults and adults in early-to-mid-adulthood, with a specialized focus on women’s mental health.
Some of my primary clinical interests include:
Trauma, including complex, interpersonal trauma, trauma responses
Depression, mood disorders
Anxiety, chronic stress
Emotion regulation, maladaptive coping behaviors
Attachment patterns and relationship challenges, complex family systems
Addiction recovery
Identity development, sense of self
I work with clients who may be struggling with mood and anxiety challenges, such as depression, generalized and social anxiety, intrusive thoughts, rumination, and obsessive compulsive patterns and behaviors. I support individuals recovering from complex and interpersonal trauma, such as emotional, narcissistic abuse or sexual assault, chronic stress responses, and unresolved shame. I also help clients struggling with maladaptive coping behaviors, addiction recovery, disordered eating and negative body image, chronic pain, and mind-body-spirit disconnection.
We may focus on relevant attachment patterns and relationship challenges, complicated family dynamics (including mental illness), grief and loss, managing difficult life transitions, and deepening identity development and sense of self and self-worth.
Treatment frameworks I often use
In our sessions, I use an integrative treatment approach tailored to meet each individual’s clinical and therapeutic needs. I provide strength-based, person-centered approaches and utilize a systems-based lens.
I integrate evidence-based treatment modalities such as insight-oriented and psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral (CBT), narrative, mindfulness-based, and acceptance and commitment (ACT) therapies. In addition, I implement components of dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), somatic-based grounding strategies, and harm reduction approaches. I am trained in eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) and have a certificate as a clinical trauma professional (CCTP), focusing on trauma-informed treatment approaches.
Approaches are incorporated to help support emotion regulation, stress responses, coping patterns, and overall healing and relevant psychoeducation is provided within sessions to help clients make further sense of their experiences.
Ages I primarily work with
I work with adults 18 years and older, including emerging/young adults, individuals in early to middle adulthood, and college/graduate students.