Welcome​

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I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 20 years of experience centering women, the queer community, and adolescents and their families.

 

I specialize in navigating identity, trauma, grief, attachment, and emotional regulation. My work is somatic, experiential, and relational. 

 

My path to therapy began with movement. I spent a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship year studying dance and gender in West Africa, Southeast Asia, and India. I found myself taken by the intersection of movement, identity, and story. Today these themes inform my work updating the body’s narrative through somatic experiencing and conscious invitation.  

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My social work career began in Seattle working alongside young women in schools and juvenile detention through an empowerment model. I received an Integrated Movement Therapy certification before pursuing a degree in Social Work. I began my work as a therapist serving students and families in Portland schools and in the community. Currently, I provide therapy, coaching, and supervision in my private practice and serve the broader community through consultation. Additionally, I offer workshops to a range of participants. Recent offerings have been: The Ethics of Grief-Informed Care (co-facilitated with workshop creator, Valenca Valenzuela), and Uncovering the Body’s Wisdom (for the Wilder Running and Writing Retreat).

 

Outside of work, you can find me enjoying art and music, accumulating passport stamps, writing, dancing, listening to podcasts, thinking about space, and making adventures with friends and family.  

 

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of Oregon (L4786).