I view all challenges, including mental health and relationship issues, as unique opportunities to further growth and build a more meaningful and fulfilling life. In a safe and caring environment - and in active collaboration with a client - my technique balances insight, exploration, and coping-skills development that helps clients affect real change in the present.

​I offer a holistic and personalized approach to meet each client's unique situation and needs, drawing from psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, and mindfulness-based modalities (such as DBT); as well as the LiveWell Program®: a psychoeducational model that empowers people to better manage their own moods. As a social worker therapist, I also explore one's unique cultural and environmental influences as a way to gain insight and inspire change. I've trained and worked with a diverse range of people of all ages and issues, and specialize in working with depression, depression and co-occurring anxiety or substance use, trauma, relationship difficulties, life transitions (such as divorce or menopause), and physician/health care provider mental health.

I hold a Masters degree from the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College, with an emphasis on trauma-informed practice.  I trained and provided individual therapy to diverse adults at University of Pennsylvania's Outpatient Psychiatry Department, as well as on the dual-diagnosis in-patient unit at Friends Hospital to people with acute mental health issues and substance use disorders. In addition to being trained at the Beck Institute in using CBT for depression and suicidality, I am also a Certified Peer Specialist. When I'm not busy being the Executive Director of the LiveWell Foundation, I am passionate about writing plays and making art.

 My priority as a therapist  is to create a safe and non-judgmental space for clients to be heard, understood, and accepted. As a social worker therapist, I am especially interested in supporting clients through their process of knowing themselves within their unique familial, cultural, and systemic contexts. I enjoy the process of learning and growing alongside my clients.

I specialize in healing trauma through connection and belonging. I frequently work with people who are navigating systemic barriers, adjusting to new and uncertain chapters in life, and seeking to feel their feelings without being consumed or overwhelmed by them. My therapeutic approach is informed by psychodynamic, relational, strengths-based, somatic, and trauma-informed modalities including DBT and the LiveWell Program®: a behavioral health model that teaches clients skills for managing their own ongoing mental health self care. 

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I am a White, multicultural (proficient in Spanish), queer, cis woman in an interracial relationship. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and currently work as a staff clinician at Tuttleman Counseling Services for Temple University students pursuing graduate studies in the Health Sciences. I earned my Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry at Haverford College and my Master of Social Services from Bryn Mawr College, and received clinical training at University of Pennsylvania's Outpatient Psychiatry Department. I was trained to be a volunteer LiveWell Foundation peer facilitator in 2018, and later served as the LiveWell Foundation's Director of Programs and Operations. I continue to integrate the LiveWell Program® into my clinical work, and frequently refer my clients to this supportive community of peers.