My Therapeutic Practice

My approach to therapy is rooted in self-compassion and radical acceptance. I am  person-centered, trauma-informed, and cultivate a curious, non-judgemental, safe-as-possible, caring space for clients to share their stories. I am drawn toward a multi-dimensional view of the self and use parts work to help clients gain insight into issues of stuckness, ambivalence, and conflict. As a relationally-oriented therapist, I believe that generative insights can emerge from the client-therapist dynamic itself.

Coming from a social work background, I think about people holistically, as individuals unto themselves and as emerging from their current and past relationships, communities, and environments more broadly. I tend to integrate diagnosis into therapeutic treatment with critical care: while having a name for a certain set of feelings and behaviors can be empowering, it can also be pathologizing and stigmatizing without addressing the root causes of trauma. Ultimately, I use a psychodynamic, client-centered, open therapeutic style in which you are the expert of your own life and I serve to support your exploration, development, and cultivation of a life worth living.

I have a M.S.S. in Clinical Social Work Practice from Bryn Mawr College, a M.S.Ed. in Higher Education from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. in English from Muhlenberg College. I have been practicing therapy since 2023, starting in community mental health and eventually transitioning to group private practice. Some of my other professional experience includes college academic advising, project management for arts and well-being research, and academic journal publishing.