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I am a Licensed Certified Social Worker (LCSW) at Nourished Minds Counseling + Wellness. I specialize in supporting adolescents, adults, and families navigating eating disorders, disordered eating, anxiety, OCD, complex trauma, communication issues, relationship struggles, sleep difficulties, and life transitions.

I received my Bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College, where I earned a dual degree in Sociology and Women’s & Gender Studies. I completed my Master of Social Work degree at the University of Denver.

My clinical experience includes working in different levels of care, including PHP and IOP, where I provided therapy for individuals, couples, and families. In addition, I have created and facilitated specialty groups focused on eating disorders, values work, substance use, exposure work, coping skills, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

Prior to my work as a clinician, I spent the early part of my career at the VA in Palo Alto, where I conducted qualitative research with Veterans focused on trauma, substance use disorder, and chronic pain. Most of my publications focus on complementary and integrative health interventions, which uniquely positions me to approach my clinical work from a combined evidence-based and holistic perspective.

My approach is warm, collaborative, strengths-based, and trauma- and complex trauma-informed. I draw from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), while integrating mindfulness, meditation, and mind-body practices into my work.

I believe that therapy should be individualized to the person sitting in front of me, and I work collaboratively with clients to understand the patterns, experiences, and “pieces” of life that may not feel like they fit or have never quite made sense. I also practice from a harm-reduction perspective, honoring where each client is starting while supporting their sense of agency in determining where they want to go.

A central part of my work is understanding symptoms and coping strategies through a trauma- and complex trauma-informed, strengths-based lens. I believe that in the midst of difficult or traumatic experiences, we develop the best strategies and tools we can to survive what is happening at the time. Sometimes those strategies can later become disruptive or prevent us from living in the ways we want, and therapy can offer a space to develop new possibilities without shame or judgment.

I specialize in helping clients explore the connections between their mind, body, emotions, relationships, and coping strategies, particularly in the treatment of eating disorders, OCD, trauma, and complex trauma. Rather than focusing solely on decreasing symptoms, I also strive to help clients build their capacity for emotional regulation, strengthen meaningful connections, reconnect with a sense of hope, and find more moments of peace, joy, and fulfillment in everyday life.

I enjoy working with a wide range of clients, some of whom may be jaded about the idea of therapy or cringe at the word “mindfulness.” I consider myself a reformed cynic and enjoy helping people who struggle with the mind-body connection find creative ways to reconnect with their felt sense of self in a safe, supportive, and nonjudgmental space.

Mind-body disconnection occurs frequently in clients navigating eating disorders, complex trauma, anxiety, and OCD, whether or not clients are aware that a disconnection exists. In my experience, this is often a missing piece of traditional therapy and one of the reasons past therapy may not have always felt as helpful or integrative as clients had hoped.

I aim to create a space where clients feel both understood and accepted, knowing that no two clients are alike and that every client deserves therapy tailored to their unique experiences and identities. I am committed to anti-racism in and out of therapeutic spaces. I believe that people in the LGBTQIA2S+ community deserve to feel safe and seen in a world that so often feels unsafe right now. I endorse and encourage a sense of righteous anger at systems that exist to oppress and exclude. I am a Health at Every Size (HAES) practitioner and believe that every body is worthy and deserves respect.

My approach to therapy is deeply informed by lived experience. I have spent decades navigating my own experiences with complex trauma, OCD, and insomnia, as well as searching for and learning about different ways to understand, treat, and work toward healing wounded places. I understand how difficult it can be to move through life with the sense that something is wrong, but without being able to pinpoint exactly what—or why. I know the exhaustion of living with OCD, intrusive thoughts, and the feeling of trying to present one version of yourself to the outside world while experiencing a very different version of yourself on the inside.

These experiences have given me a deep respect for the complexity and nonlinearity of healing. They have also led me to understand that therapy is not about fixing something that is broken, but about developing a deeper understanding of ourselves, building trust in our own experiences, and finding ways to move toward a life that feels more manageable and more meaningful.

When I am not at work, I am most likely somewhere laughing with friends because humor is one of the ways I best connect with people. I love reading psychological thrillers (anything by Tana French or Ruth Ware) or rereading my all-time favorites (my copy of Alice Walker’s The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart has nearly disintegrated). You may find me pretending to enjoy camping with my family (although by the end of each trip, I almost always realize that I actually did enjoy it). You will also find me frequently overusing parentheses.

I genuinely love to travel and try to go on an international adventure at least once every few years. But mostly, I enjoy being with the friends, family, and pets I love, doing ordinary things and catching myself being thrilled that I get to be present for all the little moments that make up a life.