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About My Clients
Some of my clients are eight and can't get in the school building. Some are fifteen and have stopped talking. Some are forty and just realized the thing they do when they're overwhelmed is the exact thing their mother did. What connects them is a pattern nobody in the family chose and nobody knows how to stop. I work with the pattern, which usually means I work with more than one person in the house.
My Background and Approach
I've been a high school dean, worked with homeless youth, and have worked with elementary students with 504s and IEPs; which means I spent a long time with kids in the place where their struggles actually show up. I saw a lot of kids called defiant, dramatic, or "bad" who were really just misunderstood and lacking proper support. I look at patterns and behaviors as symptoms of something deeper. A child's behavior almost always makes sense once you can see what's happening around them; which is why I take a deeply collaborative approach with parents, schools, and practitioners when necessary. I received my Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a specialization in children and adolescents from Northwestern University. My clinical and parenting insights have been featured in New York Magazine, Newsweek, and Upworthy.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Working with children means I see where things start. So I see adults, too. Often, we're looking at the same thing from the other end: what got pushed down, what never got said out loud, or was said and nobody caught it. That doesn't disappear because time passed. It gets quieter and finds other ways to show up. If your child is struggling, or something in your own life keeps repeating and you can't quite put your finger on it, let's chat.