I am a licensed psychotherapist, certified clinical trauma professional, artist, author and founder of Healing Art Retreats.

I graduated in 2011 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a Bachelor’s in Clinical Psychology and in 2013 from Springfield College with a Master’s of Education in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. During my undergraduate education I worked and trained as an Autism Specialist providing play therapy and assessments to children under 3. Following completion of my graduate degree, I worked in various settings gathering clinical hours in order to ascertain independent licensure as a psychotherapist..

I began my first years as a clinician interning on an inpatient psychiatric unit and completing mental health crisis evaluations for a local crisis response unit, from that work I transitioned into counseling a group of young men on a maximum security youth detention/stabilization unit.

I always felt drawn to the intensity of acute psychiatric work and there was a strong pull to helping those most in need. What I didn’t realize however, was that my own mental health and repressed traumas were bubbling under the surface. Because of this, the high paced and unpredictable world of acute psychiatric care led me to inevitable burnout. That burnout period forced me down a different path: one that included traversing not only the healing of the humans I served, but my own healing as well. During this time I deepened my therapeutic work in my own clinical therapy and slowly worked my way back to my self.

Easing out of the intensity of crisis and acute mental health, I transitioned into outpatient psychotherapy and held a 100+ client caseload working in a high volume community mental health center. In this time I completed a month long, 200-hour intensive Hatha Yoga and meditation teacher training in the jungles of Costa Rica and started furthering my exploration of Zen Buddhism and Eastern approaches to the mind, body and spirit. This shift from clinical training to holistic, somatic and spiritual training informed the foundation of my current approach to healing and it quite frankly, saved my life.

Not too long after receiving my Yoga and meditation teacher certifications, I deepened the healing well by receiving level 1 and level 2 Reiki attunements.

In 2017 I became independently licensed in the state of Massachusetts and left community outpatient mental health to start my own private practice, which I proudly run to this day. Since then I have completed several trainings on trauma informed psychotherapy and became a certified trauma therapist in 2019 and re-certified as a Clinical Trauma Professional. I have completed hundreds of hours on Neurodivergent Affirming therapy and am actively pursuing training to offer Neuroaffirmative Evaluations to adults seeking diagnostic clarity.