I love working with adults who are ready for guidance and clarity, either due to a transition of sorts or through difficult terrain. Sometimes this means finally being ready to make sense of the past several decades of their life or how to orient themselves in the complex present day world.

People who work with me tend to think of me as an ally, helping them to create the lives they want to live. I collaboratively draw upon people’s strengths, values, and competencies to navigate their way towards more fulfillment, freedom, purpose, and joy. I love helping people discover how they can experience sustainable feelings of aliveness and more connectedness, especially in relationship to others.

In 2010, I graduated with an M.A. from the Integral Counseling Psychology program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. At CIIS, I began to develop my own style of working with people, highly influenced by the ethics and worldviews informed by narrative therapy and mindfulness. For three years, I consulted weekly with an excellent Bay Area couples counselor and narrative therapist, Julia Wallace, LCSW. I continue to learn daily from my work and with an intimate group of narrative therapy colleagues across the continent who share similar values, which includes ongoing advanced training with Jill Freedman and Gene Combs. Gottman Method Couples Therapy and Research informs my work with couples, and I have completed Level 1 & 2 of Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy. I also practice EMDR and completed Level 1 & 2 of EMDR training in 2015 with Laurel Parnell. I volunteered with the NYC Trauma Response Network doing EMDR for first responders and healthcare workers in NYC whose lives were deeply impacted by COVID-19. I have always and continue to save certain sliding scale spots in my practice for people whose finances are tight.

In the last 20 years, I’ve studied with renown teachers across different fields. In Buddhism, I’ve learned from Thich Nhat Hanh, Sylvia Boorstein, Anushka Fernandopulle, Pascal Auclair, Kamala Masters, Steve Armstrong, and Carol Wilson. In narrative therapy, I’ve studied with David Epston, Jill Freedman, and Gene Combs. I hold a B.A. in Literature and Philosophy from Sarah Lawrence College (2002) after attending Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, School of Theatre. My early experiences in community organizing after 9/11 in NYC shaped both my personal growth in my 20s and my ongoing commitment to examining my own privilege, as well as understanding how systemic violence, power, and privilege operate in relationships and the world. During and after graduate school, I worked with non-profits in San Francisco and the San Francisco Department of Public Health, focusing on HIV prevention, harm reduction, providing support to trans youth, and offering mental health consultation to leaders of organizations serving marginalized youth.

I come from both an Ashkenazi Jewish lineage and an Italian-American family. In addition to loving what I do, I find nourishment and inspiration through traveling, art, spending time with loved ones, laughing with friends, tending to my garden and small orchard, beekeeping, reading, meditating, and playing with my 7.5 lb chihuahua Hazel Woolf, who can make a guest appearance at my office in Kingston modeling calm and rest.