Services
- Individual
About My Clients
You want to connect your healing journey to breaking cycles of oppression. You’re stuck in your own growth. You struggle with self-worth, overriding your needs, and avoiding your feelings. Through working together using creativity, curiosity, and connection, you’ll understand how white supremacy and oppressive systems affect your relationships, identity, and mood. You’ll make intentional changes that bring more joy, ease, and meaning for yourself, your loved ones, and the collective.
My Background and Approach
I’m a white, cisgender, straight, able-bodied woman who is an artist, mom, wife, therapist, and friend who values family both birth and chosen, laughing, nature, play, and creativity. Art therapy is my foundation. My approach is influenced by Liberation-Focused Healing Framework as well as trauma informed, emotion focused, feminism, process-oriented, and social justice frameworks. My continuing education focuses on creative arts, intersectionality, racial trauma, trauma recovery, and liberation psychology. I’m committed to doing my own work around unlearning whiteness, connecting to my ancestry, and addressing biases. I received my Master’s Degree in Art Therapy and Counseling from Drexel University in 2013. I’m a Board Certified Art Therapist, a Licensed Professional Counselor in PA, and a Licensed Professional Art Therapist in NJ. For the past 10 years, I’ve helped adults understand their mental health diagnoses through the lens of the complex traumas they’ve experienced.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I’m committed to unlearning anti-Blackness and de-centering whiteness to live an anti-oppressive life for collective liberation. This shows up in how I provide therapy to how I’m raising my two young white children. I’m forever learning. I’m a work in progress. I love painting (the messier the better), healing my inner child through being present in my play and parenting of my two kids, catching up with my friends, eating fancy vegan food, and spending time with my partner watching Marvel. I try to find ways to actively honor my grandparents who have passed on and include them in all that I do. And just so you know, I’ll probably curse in our sessions as evidenced by my 4 year old already knowing how to properly use the word shit. Relationship and creativity will be the foundation for our work together. You’re not gonna take ownership of a racist, ableist, harmful system as part of your identity. You don't need to do this alone. You’ll get support in reconnecting with your true self.