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 and a Master of Arts degree in Psychology from Boston University.
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 substance use, evidence-based treatments, and emotion regulation has further informed my clinical approach and commitment to providing ethical, person-centered mental health care and I have contributed to clinical research publications and poster presentations.
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 approaches. 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 curiosity, trust, sense of safety, transparent communication, and inclusivity, and I provide culturally sensitive, LGBTQIA+ affirming, and neurodiverse-inclusive therapy.
Areas of clinical focus
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 work with individuals 18 years and older and my practice has a particular focus on women’s mental health and young adults/early adulthood.
Some of my primary clinical interests include:
Trauma, including complex, interpersonal trauma, CPTSD
Anxiety, chronic stress
Depression, mood disorders
Emotion regulation, maladaptive coping behaviors
Attachment patterns and relationship challenges, complex family systems
Identity development, sense of self
Co-occurring trauma and mental health challenges
I work with clients who may be struggling with mood and anxiety challenges, such as depression, generalized and social anxiety, rumination, and intrusive thought patterns. I support individuals recovering from complex and interpersonal trauma, such as emotional abuse or sexual assault, CPTSD, chronic stress responses, relationship and family challenges, and unresolved shame. I also help adults struggling with grief and loss, addiction and disordered eating recovery, mind-body-spirit disconnection, and difficult life transitions.
Treatment frameworks I often use
In sessions, I offer an integrative treatment approach tailored to meet each individual’s clinical and therapeutic needs. I provide relational, strength-based, person-centered therapy and utilize a systems-based lens.
I integrate insight-oriented and psychodynamic approaches with modalities such as narrative, cognitive behavioral (CBT), acceptance and commitment (ACT), mindfulness-based, and related therapies. In addition, I implement components of dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), grounding techniques, and harm reduction-oriented strategies. I have completed clinical trainings in evidence-based, trauma-informed mental health treatments, including eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and have a certificate as a clinical trauma professional (CCTP).
Depending on your circumstances, we may work on supporting emotion regulation, stress responses, coping patterns, and overall healing, while processing and learning to better understand challenging emotions and experiences. I provide relevant psychoeducation to help clients make further sense of their experiences.
Ages I primarily work with
I work with adults 18 years and older, including young adults, individuals in early-middle adulthood, and college/graduate students.