After earning my MSW from the University of Pennsylvania, I spent over a decade as a clinical social worker at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. I sat with patients, families, and clinicians through some of the hardest moments a person can face. Serious illness. The death of loved ones. The particular grief of a body that stops cooperating. That work gave me something no training program could: a deep, unromantic respect for human vulnerability, and an equally deep respect for what people are capable of on the other side of it.

Then 2020 happened. I lost both of my parents that year. And somewhere inside the grief, alongside the relentlessness of that particular season, the question I'd been circling for years got louder: what does it actually mean to build a life that fits?

I didn't have a clean answer. But I had enough clarity to make a decision. I left my hospital role, moved my practice entirely online, and eventually moved to Paris. Not because I had it figured out, but because I was tired of waiting until I did. I tell you this not to make my story the point, but because I think it can be helpful to know your therapist has navigated some of the things you are. Grief, uncertainty, the strange courage it takes to do things differently - I'm not working with these things from a distance.

What I bring into the therapy room is all of it - the clinical training, the lived losses, the ongoing experiment of building an intentional life, and, I should mention, a genuine sense of humor. I think laughter is one of the most honest things humans do, and some of my most meaningful sessions have had real moments of levity in them. You don't have to be appropriately sad here.

I work best with people who feel things deeply, who are asking real questions about how they want to live, and who are ready to slow down enough to actually explore them.

If you're navigating a life that doesn't follow a traditional path, whether by choice, by circumstance, or by some complicated mix of both, I'd be glad to talk.

MSW, University of Pennsylvania, 2011. Over a decade of clinical experience at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. In private practice since 2018, fully virtual since 2022. Licensed in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Washington DC, and Vermont. Postgraduate training in existentially-informed therapy, somatic and nervous system approaches, CBT (Beck Institute), ACT, and grief work.