“Life is like any other contact sport. You may encounter hardships of one sort or another. Wise people find happiness not in the absence of such hardships, but in their ability to understand them when they occur.”
I work from the premise that we all possess the innate capacity to live a wonderful life with less effort and stress. Using my expertise in transformative theories and affective neuroscience, I help clients tap into the mind’s ability to generate insight and guidance, and wake up to their full potential.
The work I do speaks to both your left and right brain, and draws on our hard-wired capacity to heal. The end result is a juicy life, a more resilient brain and an open heart.
I get why we humans do what we do.
I have spent my life exploring the human experience. I have inhabited the skin of others in my theater training; I’ve studied human behavior and development through the complex prism of human biology; I’ve trained in transformational psychotherapies and understand how to access the wealth of human potential.
I understand transformation from a deeply personal perspective and believe that everyone deserves to experience themselves without limitation and with a full heart.
Education and Training
Stanford University, BA Human Biology; concentration in: Medical and Ethical Issues Impacting Women’s Health 1996
New Actors Workshop 2 Year Acting Conservatory 2000
Smith School for Social Work, MSW Master of Social Work 2003
LEAH Fellowship, Adolescent Medicine Boston Children’s Hospital 2004
AEDP Institute, Level II Certified Therapist and Assistant Trainer 2014
Michael Neill Organization, Certified Transformative Coach 2018
Center for Optimal Living , Ketamine for Clincians 2019
California Institute of Integral Studies, Certificate in Psychedelic Research and Therapies 2021 cohort
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), Certificate in MDMA-Assisted Therapy Training (100hrs) 2022
LICSW #113417 Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Prior to private practice, I served as Director of the Laurel HIll Inn Eating Disorders Day Treatment Program (now Monte Nido), and also worked in their residential treatment program, as well as on the Inpatient Eating Disorders Unit at Walden Behavioral Care.
In addition, I trained at Children’s Hospital Boston in their Adolescent Division, with specialty clinics in Eating Disorders and teen pregnancy, as well at the Univeristy of Virginia’s student couseling center. I’ve also had research published on supervisee disclosure in supervision.
My treatment approach combines Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), psychedelic psychotherapy, transpersonal psychotherapy, transformative coaching, and mindfulness based modalities.
Psychotherapy & Coaching in Partnership
When you work with me as a psychotherapist, you also get the benefit of my breadth of training and experience as a coach. And vice versa.
While coaching and therapy are often discussed in terms of their differences, I find the two disciplines powerful in partnership. To my mind, the work of transformative coaching happens upstream of our personal psychology. It is the work of understanding how human beings function and make sense of the world - the users manual for human being-ness. The work of psychotherapy is the untangling of the meaning making of personal experience. Both are powerful disciplines that have the ability to drastically improve your experience of life.
Working upstream of our personal psychology gives us an entirely different framework for understanding our experience of life as human beings. It transforms the way we see past experience and future opportunity. It deepens our ability to be present in the moment and to problem solve more effectively. Dynamic psychotherapy partners to integrate these new understandings into our lives in meaningful ways and illuminates the self’s ability to heal past trauma.
I’ve taken the coaching framework and blended with the healing power of therapy to move you forward in your life and mobilize your innate capacity for health and healing.