My background
Welcome to my private therapy practice! I am a psychotherapist and licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW, #127859) in Massachusetts. I received my Master of Social Work degree with a concentration in Clinical Mental Health from Boston College School of Social Work, as well as a Master of Arts degree in Psychology from Boston University and have completed advanced trainings in trauma-informed mental health treatments.
Prior to opening my practice, I gained 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. I have worked in additional clinical research settings at Harvard and Simmons University. My involvement in research on self-harm, emotion regulation, 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 unique 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, trauma-informed lens, looking at how the environment, early relationships, and stress responses affect mental health and well-being. I recognize the connection between mind, body, and spirit in how we process life experiences. I offer a compassionate 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 transformation.
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. Some of my core values in sessions include trust, transparent communication, sense of safety, curiosity, inclusivity, and nonjudgment. I provide culturally responsive, LGBTQIA+ affirming, and inclusive psychotherapy.
Areas of clinical focus
Some of my primary clinical interests include working with young adults, complex and interpersonal trauma, depression, anxiety, emotion regulation, women’s mental health, and identity development.
I support individuals navigating a range of mental health challenges and difficult life experiences. I take a holistic approach, recognizing shared, underlying mechanisms across different experiences.
Trauma, including complex trauma, interpersonal trauma, CPTSD
Anxiety, chronic stress
Depression, mood disorders
Emotion regulation, maladaptive coping patterns, dissociation, shame
Identity development, self-worth, difficult life transitions
Attachment and relationship challenges; Complicated family dynamics
I provide therapy for clients experiencing co-occurring mental health concerns and different forms of trauma and adverse experiences, including complex trauma, CPTSD, interpersonal trauma, domestic abuse (such as emotional, physical, sexual, narcissistic abuse), and other difficult and distressing life experiences. I hope to help individuals cope with effects of unresolved shame, isolation, and mind-body-spirit disconnection.
I work with individuals coping with depression, anxiety, mood disorders such as bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, maladaptive coping behaviors, and negative body image. I help clients from family systems that have experienced conflict, mental illness, addiction, and intergenerational trauma and aim to foster understanding and insight that can inform adaptive steps towards recovery. In addition, I am experienced working with symptoms of ADHD and neurodivergence, psychosis, and suicidal ideation.
Treatment approaches and frameworks I often use
I use an integrative treatment approach tailored to meet each individual’s unique clinical and therapeutic needs and circumstances. I provide strength-based, person-centered approaches and utilize a systems-based lens.
I incorporate and have training in evidence-based treatments to help support emotion regulation, stress responses, coping patterns, and overall healing. I integrate treatment modalities such as cognitive behavioral (CBT), insight-oriented, narrative, mindfulness-based, and acceptance and commitment (ACT) therapies. I am trained in eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR), an evidence-based treatment that helps people heal from trauma, distressing life events, and co-occurring mental health challenges, and have a certificate as a clinical trauma professional (CCTP). In addition, I implement components of dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), somatic-based grounding strategies, and harm reduction approaches.
I provide relevant psychoeducation within sessions as needed to help clients make further sense of their experiences.
Ages I primarily work with
I primarily work with clients 18 years and older, including emerging/young adults, adults, and college/graduate students. I’m also open to working with older adolescents.