I love working with adults who are ready for guidance and clarity, either due to a transition of sorts or through difficult terrain. Sometimes this means finally being ready to make sense of the past several decades of their life or how to orient themselves in the complex present day world.

People who work with me tend to think of me as an ally, helping them to create the lives they want to live. I collaboratively draw upon people’s strengths, values, and competencies to navigate their way towards more fulfillment, freedom, purpose, and joy. I love helping people discover how they can experience sustainable feelings of aliveness and more connectedness, especially in relationship to others.

In 2010, I graduated with an M.A. from the Integral Counseling Psychology program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. At CIIS, I began to develop my own style of working with people, highly influenced by the ethics and worldviews informed by narrative therapy and mindfulness. For three years, I consulted weekly with an excellent Bay Area couples counselor and narrative therapist, Julia Wallace, LCSW. I continue to learn daily from my work and with an intimate group of narrative therapy colleagues across the continent who share similar values, which includes ongoing advanced training with Jill Freedman and Gene Combs. Gottman Method Couples Therapy and Research informs my work with couples, and I have completed Level 1 & 2 of Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy. I also practice EMDR and completed Level 1 & 2 of EMDR training in 2015 with Laurel Parnell. I currently volunteer with the NYC Trauma Response Network doing EMDR for first responders and healthcare workers in NYC whose lives have been deeply impacted by COVID-19.

In the last 20 years, I’ve studied with teachers such as Thich Nhat Hanh, Sylvia Boorstein, Anushka Fernandopulle, Pascal Auclair, Kamala Masters, Steve Armstrong, and Carol Wilson (Buddhism); and David Epston, Jill Freedman, and Gene Combs (narrative therapy). I received a B.A. in Literature and Philosophy from Sarah Lawrence College in 2002 after attending Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, School of Theatre. Shortly after 9/11, during which I was living in NYC, I became immersed in community organizing and that continued throughout my 20s. Since then I’ve been committed to rigorously examining my own privilege, and the ways power and privilege operate in relationships and the world. I come from both an Ashkenazi Jewish lineage and an Italian-American family. I love to read, grow my own food, and play with my chihuahua Hazel Woolf, who pre-Covid took her therapy dog career quite seriously!