My work is rooted in the belief that the mind is not a discrete thing—it is biological, relational, and embedded in memory. This understanding shapes everything I do, whether I'm sitting with someone in therapy or interpreting a cognitive assessment. The brain and psyche are inseparable, and good clinical work holds both at once.
Over the past fifteen years, I have worked across a range of settings and populations that have given me both breadth and depth. I began my training in community mental health, working with individuals navigating severe mental illness, substance use, and the margins of the social system. From there, I moved into inpatient psychiatric care and therapeutic communities—places where I learned to read behavior carefully, to understand how trauma and dysregulation show up in real time, and to sit with complexity without rushing to solve it.
The work then deepened into rehabilitation and neuropsychology—years spent understanding how the brain changes after injury, how cognition and emotion are inseparable, how a person's story about themselves shifts when they can no longer do the things they took for granted. I learned to listen to what a test score means for a person's life, not just what it says about their function. I learned that assessment is not diagnosis; it is sense-making. And I learned that the most powerful clinical work happens when you can integrate what the data tells you with what the person in front of you knows about themselves.
This trajectory—from acute mental health to neuropsychological assessment to forensic work to private practice—has given me a working knowledge of how people break down and how they reorganize. It has taught me to think systemically about symptoms, to hold psychodynamic understanding alongside neurobiology, and to recognize that the same underlying patterns show up across different presentations. A person's difficulty with executive function in the morning might also appear as a particular way of managing conflict in relationships. A test score revealing processing speed slowing might correspond to exactly the cognitive profile you would predict from their childhood history and attachment patterns.
In my practice now, whether in therapy or assessment, I draw on all of this. I am interested in more than symptom relief or diagnostic clarity. I want to understand how you think, how you relate, how you protect yourself, and what your particular history and neurobiology have made possible and difficult. I want to help you make meaning of your own experience—to see the coherence in what might feel fragmented, to recognize patterns, and to imagine change.
Whether we are doing this through talking, through testing, or through the integration of both, the core work is the same: attending carefully to what is true about you, and trusting that understanding leads somewhere real.
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Rehabilitation Psychology
Hurley Medical Center, Flint, MI (APA-accredited)
Specialized training in psychological and neuropsychological services across inpatient and outpatient hospital units. Focus areas included capacity evaluations, rehabilitation planning, cognitive rehabilitation, and psychotherapy for individuals with brain injury, PTSD, and psychosomatic conditions.
Psy.D., Clinical Psychology
The Wright Institute, Berkeley, CA
APA-accredited doctoral program with emphasis on psychoanalytic and integrative approaches to adult psychotherapy and psychological assessment.
M.A., Counseling Psychology / Counselor Education
University of Colorado at Denver
Graduate training in clinical intervention, human development, and therapeutic practice.
B.A., Psychology
University of Colorado at Boulder
Undergraduate foundation in psychological theory, research, and the study of human behavior.