I am an active psychotherapist, engaging collaboratively with you to observe your mind and behaviors in a way that facilitates self-understanding, effective coping with suffering, and a greater sense of well-being.

I’ve been interested in the problem of suffering since I was a teenager. I was especially interested in and influenced by my sociologically, psychology, and anthropology classes. I was a highly engaged student: I loved playing basketball and I was the president of my high school class, in addition to my classes.

At the University of Michigan in 2005, I became interested in research, working in a lab that studied the relationship between infants and their mothers. I worked on creative writing with incarcerated individuals and I spent a summer working on disability rights in Accra, Ghana. I studied philosophy in addition to psychology and it informed my beliefs about how perception influences feelings and behavior.

At Loyola University Maryland in 2009, while getting my doctorate in psychology, my research focused on complementary and alternative medicine and its role in psychotherapy. I was hoping to become an academic psychologist and I taught courses in Human Development, Group Therapy, and The Treatment of Anxiety Disorders at the undergraduate and graduate level at a few different universities and colleges in Baltimore. My practicums focused on mental health in college students at a few local college counseling centers. I facilitated group therapy for the first time in my second year of my doctoral program. It was my favorite personal and professional experience. I still love the authenticity and altruism present in group therapy and it informs my current work.

At The Anxiety and Stress Disorders Institute in Maryland in 2013, I was supervised by Dr. Sally Winston and she and I have continued mentoring relationship since that time. Dr. Winston has been a pioneer in the treatment of anxiety disorders and OCD since the 1970’s, especially in the movement towards acceptance-based methods of treatment. Much of my written and clinical work is the result of my integration the notes I took during the last 10 years of supervision and consultation with her. She has written several books and you can find out more about her in my bibliography.

My first private practice started in person in San Francisco in 2015, where I used my cognitive behavioral training to treat anxiety disorders and OCD in adults. My work was informed by several books by Dr. Reid Wilson and I started applying his methods in several small groups I started.

My second private practice was an online individual and group psychotherapy program based out of Chicago called Huddle.care starting in 2017. I ran this program independently for 5 years and loved developing the curriculum for it in addition to providing both individual and group psychotherapy. My curriculum was informed by The Transdiagnostic Roadmap for Case Formulation and Treatment Planning by Drs. Joan Davidson and Rochelle Frank. In my work, I focused on understanding the cognitive and behavioral mechanisms that maintain psychological suffering and helping clients find more flexible ways of responding to that suffering.

Huddle.care was acquired by Mindful Health Solutions in 2021 and I became the Director of Huddle Care Psychotherapy. I received formal training and certification to train others in The Unified Protocol for the Treatment of Emotional Disorders, which is a cognitive behavioral treatment method developed by Dr. David Barlow and his colleagues. It became the model of our individual and group psychotherapy program. I hired and trained a team of psychotherapists and especially loved our weekly consultation group. I expanded my individual psychotherapy work to include severe mood disorders, including recurrent and severe depression and bipolar disorder. I received training in mindfulness from Dr. Mark Levine and started a daily mindfulness practice that informs my work and my life.

Back in independent practice, I provide individual psychotherapy to adults with anxiety, OCD, and mood disorders. My work is informed by my comprehensive training in cognitive behavioral, mindfulness-based, and psychodynamic methods as well as my clinical experience. I’m always growing and wanting to learn more. In addition to individual psychotherapy, I offer a free weekly Mindfulness Class and I lead a free group called Community Time, where clients have a chance to discuss how they relate to their suffering with one another. As you might gather from my history, it’s my favorite hour of the week.