I’ve been a psychotherapist for the past decade and a half. Before that, I taught at university and helped run public interest research efforts.
I have a PhD in human geography from UC Berkeley and an MS in counseling psychology from the University of Massachusetts.
I’ve helped raise a few kids to adulthood, and have been married for 25 years. I’ve found my way through bereavement, burnout, career change, life-threatening illness, and transformational growth in my relationship.
My life experiences and my work with clients have given me confidence in our ability to heal, change, grow, and to trust the spark in us that calls us forward to a life more fully aligned with who we are. From this engagement with adversity, I’ve arrived at a deeply hopeful view about our capacity to open to life with our whole hearts and about what’s possible when we do.
I’ve worked in settings where I was the only woman, white person, English-speaking person, cishet person, and am comfortable with difference, whether that’s difference from me or difference from some mainstream norm.
I’ve lived in big cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington DC and in small towns like Carbondale, Colorado and Leicester, North Carolina. I currently live on the Maine coast where I like to garden, write, and walk in the woods.
Drop me an email. I’d love to talk.