I came to this work the way I think most meaningful things happen — not by choosing it so much as recognizing it.

Long before I had language for what therapy was, I was drawn toward the emotional lives of people around me. Something in me settled in those conversations, in books, in being the person someone turned to when things got hard. Being with people in difficult moments didn't feel like a burden to me. It felt like home.

That pull has never gone away. If anything, my own experience of what it means to feel unseen and then, eventually, genuinely met, deepened it into something that feels less like a career and more like a calling.

I trained as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and completed a post-graduate fellowship in psychodynamic and relational psychotherapy at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. But the foundation of how I work was shaped long before that by movement, by athletics, by the particular knowledge that lives in the body rather than the mind.

Outside the office I'm a mother of two young kids who keep me on my toes, and a reader who will follow a good book anywhere until it's finished.