Experience, compassion, and deeper healing

A licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist with over 25 years of clinical experience working with individuals and couples. I am certified in both AEDP and EFT, research-based models of psychotherapy that are mind/body experiential and emotion-focused, radically relational, attachment-based approaches to healing of emotional and relational conflict.

After receiving my MSW from New York University, I began my career working in both inpatient and outpatient psychiatry in several New York City hospitals, and later as a community mental health therapist in Atlanta, Georgia and Greenville, South Carolina.

As a clinical social worker in the doctoral program at UPenn's School of Social Policy & Practice, I focused on deliberate practice, clinical supervision, and AEDP research and teaching — completing a dissertation on Undoing Aloneness in the COVID-19 Pandemic: How AEDP Clinicians Have Experienced the Shift to Telehealth and the Impact on the Therapeutic Relationship in 2022.

I believe effective psychotherapy requires both emotional presence and deep clinical experience — which is why my work integrates experiential depth with research-based methods.