I completed a dual graduate degree program in Child Development from Erikson Institute and Social Work from Loyola University Chicago. I have a decade of clinical training and experience working in group therapy practices including Child Therapy Chicago, Live Oak, and The Center for Contextual Change. I have additional training in Theraplay, Somatic Experiencing, and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). I specialize in exploring gender and sexuality as well as helping family systems and couples navigate how identity and trauma can impact the system. I also provide individual, couples, and family therapy, and somatic experiencing - a trauma informed practice that incorporates the body into therapy. In couples and family therapy, I help clients learn how to effectively and compassionately interact with, support, and challenge one another. I approach my clinical work through a developmental, multi-systemic and multi-cultural lens. My work focuses on exploring how patterns of thinking, behaving, and expressing ourselves have developed over time and creating a safe, trusting, and collaborative context in therapy to begin noticing, acknowledging, and shifting these patterns. I emphasize learning more about the context in which my clients live because it is essential to better understand them and how context may influence their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. I also take into account the varying roles and identities her clients have within their lives and the intersectional relationship of such identities (familial, racial, cultural, religious, gender, sexuality, etc).