Services
- Individual
- Couples
- Family
- Adolescent/Teen
- Group
About My Clients
Perhaps you’re navigating change, experiencing pain or loss, or wanting to learn more about yourself. Our work can be about support and insight—I help people explore the both/and in life. I have experience navigating significant transition including identity exploration, especially LGBTQ+, and early recovery. I specialize in working with those who belong to stigmatized and underserved populations, including those who practice CNM.
My Background and Approach
Before pursuing clinical training (currently enrolled in Masters in Mental Health Counseling at SUNY New Paltz), I worked as a researcher at Yale University Department of Psychiatry, specializing in substance use disorder treatment with stigmatized and underserved populations. In addition, I have experience working with and supporting people diagnosed with serious and persistent mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder, and C-PTSD. I work as a graduate research assistant at the Institute for Disaster Mental Health, where my focus is exploring the mental health needs of first responders and frontline workers. My clinical interests include relationships and cycles of connection, identity exploration, grief and trauma, and developing greater attunement to emotional and somatic experience. I draw from DBT and ACT while primarily attending to relational and social contexts in which people cope and heal—my go-to treatment modality is RCT.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe that connection, therefore healing, can be achieved in a counseling relationship that prioritizes empathy, curiosity, and co-creation. Additionally, I aim to close gaps in mental health care, where diverse populations and experiences are over-pathologized and underserved. This is conveyed partially though my work with you therapy and in education advocacy around the lack of training for working with LGBTQ+ and CNM folks. My lens is through that of cultural humility.