Experience

I have over 20 years experience supporting adults and teens as an educator and in clinical outpatient, residential, and wilderness therapy clinical settings. My graduate clinical placements were at UNCA Asheville Health & Counseling and Matone Counseling, where I provided individual, couple, and group therapy for adults and adolescents on a wide range of issues. I am licensed by the state of North Carolina as a mental health practitioner (LSCWA License #P022049).

Training

I remain engaged in advanced post-graduate training, including programs at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and the Center for Group Studies, as well as participating in individual and group supervision. I completed the 2024-2025 Fellowship at the Chicago Center of Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy.

I have also studied indigenous forms of healing with Kedar Brown of the Rites of Passage Council. I have completed grief tending training with Fox Healing, and have tended grief in community grief gatherings since 2021. I facilitated social health programming to combat loneliness, heal trauma, and ignite mutual support in Western North Carolina through non-profit SeekHealing. I worked in behavioral health direct care at CooperRiis and SUWS of the Carolinas. I have practiced meditation and studied contemplative psychology rooted in Buddhist traditions since 2009.  

Education

I received my Master of Social Work degree from Western Carolina University. I completed a Master of Education at Harvard University, where I published educational psychology research and served as a Teaching Fellow in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. I received my undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.