While Portland has been my home since 2004, I’m originally from Chicago. I earned my BA in History, along with a teaching license from the University of Iowa, which gave me the opportunity to spend several years teaching and traveling in the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. Here in Portland I have taught high school and worked with immigrant and refugee youth through a local non-profit organization. I earned my master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Lewis & Clark College in 2018 and completed a one-year internship with the M.E.T.A. Counseling Clinic where I received professional training in Hakomi, Primary Attachment Therapy and other mindful, experiential and somatic approaches to psychotherapy. I am a registered licensed professional counselor in the state of Oregon.

I feel honored to be doing this work and and am continually inspired by the positive changes I see my clients making in their lives. I believe in a holistic, client-centered approach to counseling that values your unique experience in life, is responsive to your needs and respectful of the pace and rhythm of your change process.

“Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to

truth can deepen. There’s less identification with the self in the story and more ability to rest in

the awareness that is witnessing what’s happening.” -Tara Brach