Clinical Work - Psychotherapy

I specialize in neurodiversity assessments and therapy for teens and young adults. I conduct comprehensive evaluations for ADHD, autism, and related conditions - helping clients understand their neurodivergent profiles and advocate for the accommodations they need.

My therapeutic work supports those facing depression, anxiety, trauma, identity and sexuality concerns, and the complex work of individuation and creative expression. I draw from humanistic, psychodynamic, and mindfulness approaches, bringing experience with dual diagnoses, severe mental illness, and substance use disorders from years across mental health and addiction treatment centers, inpatient psychiatric hospitals, and hospice settings. I believe that appropriate diagnosis and learning one's specific brain style earlier on in life is preventative healthcare.

The work honors both contemplative wisdom and evidence-based practice, attending to body, mind, and soul.

Research & Training

With a masters in depth psychology, and currently pursuing a PhD at Pacifica Graduate Institute. My dissertation research focuses on lived experiences of recovery from synthetic opioid addiction. As the drug supply rapidly evolved from heroin to fentanyl and beyond, I became committed to understanding these complexities, developing more effective approaches to recovering from opioid addiction.

My training in depth psychology combined with personal life experiences shaped how I understand suffering, transformation, and what it means to truly accompany someone through darkness toward the light. "Every true transformation begins in darkness. The alchemists called it nigredo — the blackening, the breaking open, the gentle undoing of what has been." — Matt Licata

Creative & expressive therapies

For 15 years I've facilitated group therapy in drug and alcohol treatment centers, weaving together music and depth psychology to create space for what's too difficult to speak.

I create immersive soundscapes where the harp's freely vibrating strings support nervous system regulation, embodied emotional processing, and the cathartic release of trauma held in the body.

I also facilitate collaborative, creative, and artistic group therapy, immersing dream tending, collage, active imagination, and other various depth psychological practices. "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." -Carl Jung

harp therapy

In 2009 I became a Hospital Certified Harp Therapist. Since then, l've brought live harp music to the bedside in hospitals, hospice agencies, psychiatric units, cancer centers, dementia care facilities. The harp's vibration offers what patients call "a massage for the soul." I'm passionate about utilizing the power of sound and the healing timbre of the harp's resonant strings for soothing relaxation and comfort in medical settings. “Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast. To soften rocks, or bend the knotted oak.” - William Congreve

Harp Performance & Collaboration

Music is my life's greatest passion, and I enjoy playing the harp in various settings, including weddings, funerals, meditative grief circles, community gatherings, festivals, sound baths, and at home for my cats. I also collaborate and record with electronic music artists.

THE BEGINNING - Pennsylvania