My Background

I've been curious about people for as long as I can remember.

From a young age, I was sensitive, emotionally attuned, and deeply interested in human wellbeing.

During my undergraduate studies I became drawn to questions about the human experience and earned degrees in Anthropology and Western Philosophy, graduating summa cum laude from Wagner College. Looking back, I can see how naturally these fields nourished the questions that continue to guide my work: How do we become who we are? How do our experiences shape us? How do we make meaning of our lives? And what allows us to live well?

After college, I took an unexpected turn and became a small-scale farmer. For several years, I spent long days outside planting, weeding, harvesting, and learning the rhythms of the land. It was during conversations with friends and farm volunteers, often while our hands were busy with the work of the day, that I realized I wanted a life in which meaningful conversation was part of my everyday work.

The path from that realization to becoming a therapist was not a straight one. I spent years navigating my own health challenges and supporting people I love through difficult experiences, while also building a marriage and becoming a mother. As life eventually stabilized, I trained with Martha Beck and became a certified Wayfinder Life Coach. However, working with coaching clients only deepened my desire for a clinical education and the opportunity to become a licensed counselor.

At 36, I returned to graduate school and earned my master's degree in Mental Health Counseling and Wellness from New York University. 

I have also spent much of my life close to the natural world. Living in the woods has given me a profound relationship with the land, rivers, plants, and rhythms of the seasons, continually reminding me that growth is rarely linear and that there is wisdom in allowing things to unfold in their own time.

My own lived experiences, connection to nature, and years of philosophical and contemplative exploration, have shaped the way I approach my role as a therapist, and I remain deeply committed to my own self-exploration. In everything that I do, I bring an intellectual curiosity and rigorous thinking while making room for intuition, mystery, embodied experience, and forms of knowing that don't always have easy explanations.

Today, I am grateful to bring together the many threads of my life through my work as a counselor.

It is work I feel deeply at home doing.