Do you want to be the best version of yourself? I will challenge patterns that no longer serve you, to empower you to be the driver of your life, living the way you want. Through my own journey of development, mindfulness and professional experience, I treat you as a whole person and do not look to label you. Allow me to help you find the beauty in getting to know yourself more, understanding your patterns that don’t work anymore and creating new ways of coping. Oftentimes, there is that inner voice in our head that has become more of a critic instead of a friend. It takes practice identifying when that inner critical voice is speaking loudly and driving decisions in your life. Let me help you in developing a kinder, more compassionate self-talk.You and I will create a safe environment where you feel comfortable discussing vulnerable topics that have caused you pain, shame or anger. My process offers a place to stop and reflect in order to change what isn’t working for you anymore. Why wait for your problems to overwhelm you, let’s start the process now!

-Provide individual, family and group therapy for individuals with Eating Disorders and co-morbid disorders within residential, partial hospitalization program and intensive outpatient program.-Participate in multidisciplinary treatment team meetings with Psychiatrists, Nursing and Dietitians to exchange information on patients and engage in treatment planning.-Facilitate the Trauma Track Group within residential treatment. Participate in trauma supervision biweekly. -Case manage patients, including ongoing assessment of goals, overall direction of treatment, and handling of any clinical crises; and completing all necessary documentation.

-Provide counseling services to individuals and families-Provide individual and group therapy-Develop, plan, and facilitate workshops based on the client's needs-Provide case management for families-Conduct assessments and develop Child and Family Action Plans which identify client's goals, strengths and challenges-Identify when children’s physical, emotional, educational or developmental wellbeing is at risk and report risk to the appropriate department -Working with clients who have experienced significant trauma and loss. Trauma including refugee experience, post-natal depression, family violence, grief and loss, divorce, mental health issues, difficult transitions, drug and alcohol abuse and children who are experiencing coping difficulties, abuse and neglect and developmental challenges

-Lead the La Verite Dance Project's counseling service.-Implement Child Safety Standards-Offer a holistic approach to therapy, working alongside dance movement therapists to foster each clients personal growth, self awareness and self acceptance.

-Provide support, feedback, debriefing and supervision to a team of HelpLine Volunteers-Assist during suicide calls as required

-Facilitate and Coordinate Anxiety and OCD self-help support groups. -Participants include individuals who are coping with OCD or Anxiety and/or careers-Distribute helpful information & resources

-Provide telephone support, provision of information and referrals to people with anxiety disorders (including other disorders) and their families-Advocate and assist with self-advocacy on issues about employment, housing, legal or financial problems in which the anxiety disorder is a primary issue of concern

-Provide skilled individual counseling to community based counseling service-Liaise with other professionals as appropriate in order to ensure comprehensive assessment and duty of care to clients-Keep accurate and timely case notes-Participate in monthly case reviews-Collect and input non identifying data for government funding

-Worked in a non-profit organization with the homeless treating substance abuse and co-morbid populations.-Performed clinical assessments and developed a customized treatment plan.-Conducted biopsychosocial with clients.-Provided individual and group counseling to clients.-Compiled and maintained confidential, current case notes for each client.-Facilitated psycho-educational classes for Relapse Prevention and Anger Management. -Attended case management meetings where clients’ progress is discussed. -Maintained confidentiality of each client.

-Participated in the creative process for the production of online marketing materials-Coordinated between the Marketing, Translations, Promotions (Marketing oriented), Benchmarking etc.

-Promoted adoptions of children in the foster care system who were featured on the Miami Heart Gallery.-Coordinated all Miami Heart Gallery and Adoption projects by working with the Full Case Management Agencies (FCMA) and The Children’s Trust (TCT).-Coordinated MHG photo shoots and portraits-Helped develop data base for keeping files of perspective families-Counseled families on process of adoption-Coordinated Adoption Lecture Series-Collected monthly updates on the MHG children’s status-Arranged adoption events-Participated in file review-Worked closely with FCMA to ensure full compliance with policies and procedures

-Served as project manager on two grant funded studies on Type I and Type II Diabetes -Recruited participants-Scheduled and administered assessments-Coordinating IRB submissions.

-Examining intoxicated witnesses memory of a crime-Running participants, data collection, data entry, transcribing, data scoring, and training new research assistants -Running participants, revised stimulus materials, interviewed participants, trained new research assistants.-This study investigates whether building rapport with a witness of a mock-crime affects the witnesses’ subsequent susceptibility to misinformation