Psychotherapist, Advisory Circle Member

I am an interdisciplinary social worker, psychotherapist, and literary scholar. As a therapist I practice a whole-person, individualized, and culturally congruent approach to mental health and wellness, focusing on issues among women, gender diverse people, adolescents, and adults across racial and ethnic backgrounds. My psychotherapy practice is guided by feminist, queer, and anti-racist therapeutic modalities and somatic (body-focused) healing methods—working with trauma in the nervous system combined with integrative whole body and mindfulness techniques.

I received my MSW from Washington University’s George Warren Brown School of Social Work in 2020 and am currently undergoing clinical supervision in integrative psychotherapy with Kelly Caul (MSW, LCSW). I previously received a Ph.D. in Literature from University of California, San Diego in 2016. After training and working as an academic—with a specialization in trauma theory and critical studies of race, gender, and sexuality— I turned to clinical social work to incorporate a direct healing practice into my teaching and scholarship.

Perhaps now more than ever—in times of disconnection and unevenly distributed suffering—we need new modes of care and transformation. To engage in the work of one’s own healing is to insist on hope, courage, and the beauty of being fully alive. I believe in the therapeutic relationship because of its capacity to nourish inner life, cultivate creativity and joy, attend to and relieve emotional and physical pain, and build resilience and empowerment.