For as long as I can remember, I have been drawn to exploring, tracking, and understanding the complex forces that shape our identities and sense of self.

As a white-bodied cisgender woman from a working-class family with a history of addiction, divorce, and mental illness, I explore the intersecting forces of privilege and oppression that shape how I am in the world to find generative ways to heal, knowing I can only offer what I practice. I am deeply inspired and humbled by somatic healing lineages, restorative justice, practices of repair, and the vulnerability I have shared and experienced.

Creative practices have also been a vital force of generativity in my life and have taken many forms, including improv, dance, painting, sculpture, video, and playing with sound and words. When working with people, I seek to cultivate and support their generative practices, whether they take walks, cook, paint, organize for justice, write poetry, install objects in galleries, play music, play with their kids, or play games. I support any and all ways toward liberation.

Between supporting folks in their growth and making things in the studio, I can be found finding ways to laugh with friends and family because connecting through laughter is a resilience/resourcing practice I take very seriously. These days, I'm also gardening. Plants are the wisest of us all. 

Education

• Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT#115339)

• MA, Counseling Psychology, The Wright Institute

• BFA, Interdisciplinary Studies, San Francisco Art Institute

• International Studies Beaux-Arts de Paris

Training

• IFS Trauma Treatment Program with Frank Andersen, MD.

• Healing Intergenerational Trauma w/ Efu Nyaki & Dr. Peter Levine

• Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate Program with The Embody Lab

• Embodied Social Justice Certificate Program w/ Rev. angel Kyodo williams