About Me

I earned my MA degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Antioch University Seattle and hold a BFA in Illustration from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

My journey to becoming a therapist began with hardship in the form of emotional parentification, scapegoating, and the onset of more than a decade of depression and anxiety. In my early 20s, amidst debilitating self-loathing and fear, I made a promise to devote the needed time, energy, and resources to nurturing holistic wellness within myself and a healthier relationship with myself. The first step in fulfilling that promise was seeking therapy. I hold deep gratitude and reverence for the teachers, healers, healing modalities, and inner resources that I have discovered since taking that first step, and for the opportunity to guide and support others as I have been guided and supported.

In my life outside of Sacred Space Wellness, I strive to cultivate a balance between connection with the people, places, and activities I love and time alone to rest and recharge. This last is especially important as a way to honor my neurodivergence and the fact that I am on the more introverted, more sensitive/empathic, and lower energy side of the spectrum. I strive to embody the teachings that inform my therapy work and you’ll often find me communing with and tending to my internal world through mindful breathing, grounding, body-scanning, and self-compassion and acceptance practices. As for my other passions, I have a great love of story-telling and the fantasy genre experienced through books, movies/TV shows, and video games, spending time in the company of animals and being a cat mom, gardening/being a plant mom, walking/hiking, dancing/Authentic Movement, singing, creative writing, and art-making.