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 my undergraduate degree from Simmons University. I 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 emotion regulation, suicidal behavior and self-harm, 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 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, neurodiversity-affirming, and LGBTQIA+ inclusive psychotherapy
Areas of clinical focus
Some of my primary clinical interests include working with: complex/interpersonal trauma, depression, anxiety, emotion dysregulation, maladaptive coping behaviors, women’s mental health, young adults, 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, interpersonal trauma, CPTSD, dissociation
Depression, mood disorders
Anxiety, chronic stress
Substance use disorders, addictive behaviors, and recovery
Emotion dysregulation, maladaptive coping behaviors, shame
Identity development, self-worth, difficult life transitions
Attachment and relationship challenges; Complicated family dynamics
I work with clients who may be struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma (such as emotional, physical abuse; sexual assault) and dissociation, mood disorders such as bipolar disorder, grief and loss, maladaptive coping behaviors, negative body image/disordered eating and substance use recovery, and suicidal ideation. I support clients managing challenging relationships and family dynamics, and difficult life transitions. I help individuals cope with the effects of unresolved shame, isolation, and mind-body-spirit disconnection and aim to foster understanding and insight that can inform adaptive steps in long-term recovery and growth.
I provide trauma-informed therapy to help increase awareness and insight and reduce the impact of trauma and adverse experiences. Through care and dedication to your well-being, therapy may help you to manage distressing and aversive reactions, calm your nervous system, be more grounded, and rebuild your sense of self.
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 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 have a certificate as a clinical trauma professional (CCTP) and am trained in eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR), an evidence-based treatment that helps people healing from trauma and distressing life events. I incorporate and have training in treatments to help support emotion regulation, stress responses, coping patterns, and overall healing.
I provide relevant psychoeducation within sessions to help clients make further sense of their experiences.
Treatment frameworks I often use
Ages I primarily work with
I work with clients 18 years and older, including emerging/young adults, adults, and college/grad students.